BIO: Isaac N. Shipman, 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 397.
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  Shipman, Isaac Newton, was born August 9, 1849, in Brockville, 
Canada. At the age of sixteen he taught school for a short time, then 
learned telegraphy, after which he worked two years in a hardware 
store. Going to New York he found employment in a wholesale brush 
house, where he remained about two years. After working in a commercial 
agency about one year he entered the service of his uncle in the 
building business. At the age of twenty-eight he was called to preach, 
and received a local preacher's license on February 22, 1878. In the 
fall of the same year he entered Drew Theological Seminary, from which 
he graduated in 1882. He received deacon's orders in 1882, and joined 
this Conference in 1883. 
  On September 16, 1870, he married Miss Julia E. Cocks, of New York 
city.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1883, Speedsville; 1884-86, 
Lackawanna; 1887-90, Sherburne; 1891-94, Hawley; 1895-97, Montrose; 
1898-1900, Chenango Street, Binghamton; 1901-02, Susquehanna; 1903, 
Oxford.