BIO: William Shelp, 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 245.
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  SHELP, WILLIAM, M.D., was born in Jessup, Susquehanna County, Pa., 
December 18, 1827, and died April 29, 1882, at the residence of his 
daughter, Mrs. Nettie E. Dymond, in Franklin township, Luzerne County, 
Pa.  His funeral services were held at Fairdale, in which place he was 
buried.
  He was converted in his sixteenth year, and at once joined the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and soon became useful as class leader and 
Sunday school superintendent.
  He joined the Oneida Conference in 1851, and the following year 
became a member of Wyoming Conference.  Here he served the Church 
continuously until a short time before his death, except the two years 
of location, in which he pursued a course of study in medicine, 
receiving his diploma as M.D.
  On March 25, 1848, he married Miss Patience Robinson, by whom ten 
children were born to him, two sons and eight daughters.  On August 31, 
1870, he was married to Miss Eliza P. Parks, of Rome, Bradford County, 
Pa., who with the children by the first marriage survived him.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1851, Brooklyn, 1852-53, 
Thompson; 1854-55, Dundaff and Glenwood; 1856-57, Madison Mission; 
1858-59, Sanford; 1860-61, Beach Pond; 1862-63, Dundaff; 1864-65, 
located; 1866-67, Fairdale; 1868-69, Rush Mission; 1870-71, Rome; 1872-
74, Mehoopany; 1875-77, Northmoreland; 1878-80, Newton; 1881, Lehman; 
1882, sd.