BIO: Young C. Smith, 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 247-248.
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  SMITH, YOUNG C., D.D., was born on February 14, 1820, in South New 
Berlin, Chenango County, N.Y.  His early educational advantages were 
such as the common school and an occasional term in a select school 
afforded.  With these aids he made sufficient attainments to venture 
upon the work of teaching, and taught his first school when fourteen 
years of age.  It was during this year he gave his heart to Christ.  He 
studied in Oxford Academy in 1839-40, and in 1841 entered Cazenovia 
Seminary, where he finished his college preparatory work.  In 1846 he 
entered the junior class in Union College, and graduated with honor in 
1848, being one of a class of eighty.  He at once took charge of 
Deerfield Academy, in Knoxville, Pa.  He did not finish the year there, 
however, as a more inviting position opened to him in Wyoming Seminary.  
Here he taught the ancient languages about fifteen years.  In 1862 he 
was elected president of Wyoming Seminary.  He served in this capacity 
over a year, when he resigned and entered the pastorate.
  He received local preacher's license from the Cazenovia church about 
the time he left Cazenovia Seminary.
  In 1852 he joined the Conference on trial, having received deacon's 
orders previously.  In 1854 he received local elder's orders, but did 
not come into full membership in the Conference.  In 1856 he again 
joined the Conference on trial, becoming a full in due time.
  On November 9, 1859, he married Miss Mary E. Wood, at that time, and 
for several years previous, preceptress of Wyoming Seminary, a woman 
rare gifts and consecrated life.  She died at West Pittston, September 
5, 1890.  Three sons and two daughters were born to them.  Rev. Wesley 
W. was a member of this Conference several years, and is now pastor of 
a Congregational church.  Frank and Lester are electrical engineers.  
The living daughter is the wife of Attorney Robert L. Stuart, of 
Carbondale.
  He received the degree of M. A., in cursu, three years after 
graduation, from Union College.  In 1868 Dickinson College conferred 
the degree of D.D. upon him.  In 1880 he was elected by his Conference 
a delegate to General Conference.  In 1891 he was a delegate to the 
Ecumenical Conference of Methodism which met in Washington, D. C.
  He died at the home of his son-in-law in Carbondale, on October 19, 
1902, and was laid to rest, by the side of his wife, in the Forty Fort 
cemetery.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1856-62, Professor in Wyoming 
Seminary; 1863, Carverton; 1864-66, Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre; 
1867-69, Pittston; 1870-71, Carbondale; 1872-76, sy.; 1877, Thompson; 
1878, Oneonta; 1879-82, Presiding Elder on Owego District; 1883-85, 
Wyoming; 1886-87, Parsons; 1888, Agent Preachers' Aid Society; 1889-90, 
sy.; 1891-1902, sd.