BIO: Joseph S. Southworth, 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 405-406.
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  Southworth, Joseph S., was born on September 7, 1840, at Edmeston, 
N.Y.  He attended district school until sixteen years of age, when he 
entered West Winfield Academy. Here he studied until twenty-one years 
of age, teaching winters and attending the school summers. From this 
time until he joined the Conference in 1874 he was teaching most of the 
time. At four years of age he commenced attending Sunday school, and at 
twelve was converted under the ministry of Rev. William Burnside. He 
early felt called to the ministry, but did not yield to it for years. 
He received exhorter's and local preacher's licenses from the Edmeston 
Church.
  On March 8, 1864, he married Miss Ellen M. Robinson, of Edmeston, 
N.Y.
  He is now engaged in mercantile business in Norwich, N.Y.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1874-75, Laurens; 1876, Sidney 
Plains; 1879-80, Westford; 1881, Middlefield; 1882-85, sy.; 1886-88, 
Plymouth, N.Y.; 1889-90, Fly Creek; 1891-95, sy.; 1896-1903, sd.