BIO: James Schofield, 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 243-244.
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  SCHOFIELD, JAMES, was born in Mosley, near Manchester, England, on 
July 30, 1840, and died in Camptown, Pa., on August 4, 1899.
  He was converted early in life, but did not make a public confession 
of Christ until he was eighteen years old.  He received exhorter's 
license in England.
  In 1865 he came to America and settled in Valley Falls, R. I., where 
he resided a little over two years.  Early in 1868 he went to Baltic, 
Conn.
  On November 26, 1868, he married Miss Sarah Jane Skelding, who with 
five children survived him.
  His body was laid in the Camptown cemetery.
  In 1873 he was given a local preacher's license, and as a local 
preacher preached at Lebanon and New Bedford, Conn.  In 1881, he moved 
to Jacksonville, Fla., and in 1883 he joined the St. John's River 
Conference.  In the autumn of 1896 he was transferred to Wyoming 
Conference and stationed at Mehoopany, filling the vacancy caused by 
Rev. G. H. Northrup's seeking a milder climate for the benefit of his 
health.
  His appointments were as follows:  1883, St. John's River Conference; 
1883-85, Orange City; 1886-89, Windsor; 1890-94, Lake Como; 1895-96, 
Fruitland Park; 1896, Wyoming Conference; 1896-98, Mehoopany; 1899, 
Camptown.