BIO: George A. Severson, 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, page 244.
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  SEVERSON, GEORGE A., was born in Guilderland, Albany County, N.Y., on 
July 10, 1818, and died in his home in Binghamton, N.Y., on September 
16, 1894.
  He was of German stock, his parents being of the German Reformed and 
Lutheran Churches.  He moved to Broome County in early manhood.  At 
about twenty-five years of age he was converted while he was walking 
along the road, and about six weeks afterward was blessed with the 
experience of sanctification.
  In 1856 he entered the Wyoming Conference and labored, with the 
exception of one year, continuously in the ministry until 1887, when he 
superannuated and settled in Binghamton, where he died after a 
lingering sickness of about two years.  He was a great sufferer.  At 
last typhoid fever set in and took him off.  He was buried in Spring 
Forest Cemetery, in Binghamton, N.Y.
  While living in Albany County he was captain in the 150th Regiment of 
New York State Infantry.
  On November 13, 1838, he married Miss Helen Hogan, at Clarksville, 
Albany County, N.Y.  She with two daughters and three sons survived 
him, one of whom is Rev. O. L. Severson, Ph.D., of this Conference.
  Revivals occurred on almost every charge he served, and some of them 
were very remarkable ones, specially those at Choconut Center, 
Harpursville, Sterling, Moscow, and Dunmore.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1856, Choconut Center; 1857-58, 
Osborne Hollow; 1859-60, Harpursville; 1861, Castle Creek; 1862, Great 
Bend and New Milford; 1863, located; 1864-66, Gibson; 1867-68, 
Sterling; 1869-71, Moscow; 1872-74, Dunmore; 1875-77, Waverly, Pa.; 
1878-79, North Fenton; 1880-81, Otego; 1882-83, Sidney Plains; 1884-86, 
Windsor; 1887-94, sd.