BIO: John B. Sweet, 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 410-411.
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  Sweet, John Burgess, D.D., was born on July 3, 1854, at Frome, 
Somersetshire, England. He attended the National School, the Blue Coat 
School of France five years, and the Singer Evening School of Art for a 
time, after which he was apprenticed to learn the gas-fitting trade. In 
1873 he came to America and settled in Scranton. Here he was 
successively in the employ of the Dickson Manufacturing Company, 
Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, and Mr. R. M. Lindsay, 
proprietor of the Boston Store. He had been confirmed in the Episcopal 
Church of his native town, but knew nothing of experimental religion. 
While sitting in the choir of the Providence Church, Scranton, 
listening to a sermon by Rev. R. W. Van Schoick, he was moved to begin 
a new life. In the same year, 1878, he was given an exhorter's license 
by Rev. E. R. D. Briggs, pastor of Park Place Methodist Episcopal 
Church. This church gave him local preacher's license on March 7, 1879, 
and in the following month he joined the Conference.
  He was editor of the Detailed Missionary Report five years, first 
assistant secretary for five years, and secretary of the Conference six 
years.
  On December 4, 1877, he married Miss Iona A. Miller, of Park Place, 
Scranton. Two sons and a daughter have been born to them.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1879, Spring Brook; 1880-81, 
Cherry Ridge; 1882-84, Mount Pleasant; 1885-87, Peckville; 1888-89, 
Great Bend; 1890-91, Waverly, Pa.; 1892-95, Ashley; 1896-1900, Simpson, 
Scranton; 1901, Oneonta; 1902-03, Presiding Elder of Binghamton 
District.