BIO: Luman E. Sanford, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 393-394.
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  Sanford, Luman E., was born on May 10, 1863, in Preston township, 
Wayne County, Pa. His father was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church more than fifty years, and his grandfather more than seventy 
years. His great-uncle, Rev. Luman Sanford, was an itinerant under 
Asbury, and his uncle, Rev. Isaac Sanford, is a member of the New York 
East Conference, and now (1902) eighty-seven years old.
  He was converted and received into the Church in 1886, and with his 
conversion came the call to preach. In September of 1886 he received 
local preacher's license by the Lake Como Quarterly Conference. Prior 
to this his occupation had been farming, lumbering, teaching, and 
clerking in a general store. He had three terms of school work at Mount 
Pleasant Academy, and in November, 1884, graduated from the Wyoming 
Commercial College. In 1890 he graduated from the classical course in 
Wyoming Seminary, and in 1893 he graduated from Drew Theological 
Seminary. During two years of his stay at Drew he supplied the church 
at New Dover, N.J.
  On April 27, 1893, he married Miss Lizzie J. Dix, of Long Island 
Pond, Pa. 
  He received deacon's orders in 1891, joined the Conference in 1893, 
and in 1896 was received into full membership and given elder's orders.
  He published in 1903, under the pseudonym of "Kirk Parson," a 
railroad story of real life, entitled On the Mountain Division.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1893-95, Mountain Top; 1896-98, 
Ariel; 1899-1903, Nicholson.