BIO: Francis Spencer, 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 246-247.
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  SPENCER, FRANCIS, died at Lanesboro, Pa., September 18, 1862, being 
forty-two years of age at the time of his death.
  He was converted in his eighteenth year, at Springville, Pa., and 
joined the Presbyterian Church.  Subsequently he joined the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in Harmony, N. J., and was given an exhorter's 
license by the church in that place.  In June, 1848, he was granted a 
local preacher's license by the Quarterly Conference of Springville 
Circuit, and in 1852 was ordained a local deacon by Bishop Scott.  In 
1855 he joined Wyoming Conference on trial, was admitted into full 
connection in 1857, and received elder's orders from Bishop Waugh in 
1858.  Prior to his joining the Conference he served several years as 
supply under the presiding elder.  His appointments were as follows:  
1855-56, Sanford; 1857-58, Salem; 1859-60, Mount Pleasant; 1861, Page 
Brook; 1862, Lanesboro.