BIO: Charles M. Surdam, 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 408-409.
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  Surdam, Charles M., was born on March 20, 1846, in New Orleans, La. 
He received his education in private schools of seminary and collegiate 
grade in New York city and vicinity. 
  He was converted in January, 1864, in Simpson Church, Jersey City, 
N.J., and his call to preach came at the time of conversion. He had 
aspirations for the legal profession. These, however, were laid aside 
and he became a business man. While engaged in business in Binghamton, 
N.Y., he listened to the call to preach, which had increased in 
intensity with passing years, and decided to enter the ministry. The 
Quarterly Conference of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church gave 
him a local preacher's license in April, 1878, and he preached his 
first sermon the following Sunday in the Centenary Church. In August of 
that year he was sent as supply to Harford and Gibson, and united with 
the Conference in 1879.
  He has been twice married and has five daughters.
  His pastorates have been as follows: 1879-80, Harford and Gibson; 
1881-83, Brooklyn; 1884-86, Nicholson and South Gibson; 1887-91, 
Susquehanna; 1892-96, Waverly, N.Y.; 1897-98, Nanticoke; 1899-1903, 
Pittston.