BIO: Samuel W. 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 248-249.
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  SPENCER, SAMUEL W., was born in Wantage, Sussex County, N. J., on 
August 1, 1836, and was educated in the schools of New York city.  "His 
father was a Baptist preacher of prominence, but the son chose to make 
his home in the Methodist Episcopal Church, to whose doctrines and 
usages he gave unswerving loyalty."
  Early in the war for the Union he enlisted in the 67th Ohio Infantry, 
and served four and a half years.
  On July 29, 1869, he married Miss Florence A. Sanders, of Litchfield, 
Pa., who with six children survived him.
  He suffered greatly from rheumatism and heart disease, and of the 
latter died very suddenly at his home in Mount Pleasant, Mich., on June 
5, 1893.  His body was laid to rest in the cemetery at Mount Pleasant, 
Mich.
  On most of his charges refreshing showers of grace were experienced, 
notably at Sanford, where two hundred and fifty were converted.
  He joined the Wyoming Conference in 1873, and two years after 
superannuation moved West.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1873, Broome; 1874, Lanesboro; 
1875-76, Hawleytown; 1877-78, Sanford; 1879-80, sy.; 1881, Rileyville; 
1882, Canaan; 1883-84, Narrowsburg; 1885-93, sd.