BIO: Reuben S. Southworth, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Denise Phillips Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 248. ________________________________________________ SOUTHWORTH, REUBEN S., was born at New Lisbon, Otsego County, N.Y., in February, 1818, and died at Litchfield, Bradford County, Pa., December 10, 1875. He was born again under the ministry of Rev. William Burnside in 1842, and immediately began active Church work. After serving two years as supply on trial in 1851, he became a member of Wyoming Conference by the accession of territory in 1869. His appointments were as follows: 1851, Richmondville; 1852, Smyrna; 1853-54, Bainbridge; 1855-56, Warren; 1857, Deansville; 1858-59, Sangerfield; 1860, Augusta; 1861, Knox Corners; 1862-63, Lowell; 1864- 65, Schuyler's Lake; 1866-68, Exeter; 1869-71, Masonville; 1872-73, Schuyler's Lake; 1874-75, Litchfield.