BIO: William H. Stang, 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, page 406.
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  Stang, William Henry, was born on December 20, 1851, at Russell Hill, 
Pa. He was converted when about fourteen years of age, and joined the 
Church in 1871. He was raised on a farm, clerked in stores in Chicago 
two years, and has taught nine terms of school. He attended Dearborn 
Grammar School, in Chicago, one term, and graduated from Wyoming 
Seminary in 1882. He received deacon's orders in 1883, and, after 
supplying Randolph charge one year, joined the Conference in 1884. He 
was ordained an elder in 1888 at the Conference session held in 
Oneonta, N.Y. 
  On February 26, 1885, he married Miss Mabel Allen, at Calkins, Pa.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1884, Randolph; 1885, Thompson; 
1886-87, Exeter and Schuyler's Lake; 1888-92, Auburn; 1893-97, 
Skinner's Eddy; 1898-1900, Little Meadows; 1901-02, Spencer; 1903, 
Shavertown.