BIO: James M. Taber, 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 411.
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  Taber, James Monroe, D.D., was born on February 17, 1860, at Vineyard 
Haven. Mass. He was converted in the town of his birth in 1878 and 
joined the Methodist Episcopal Church of that place in 1880. he 
prepared for college in the village schools, and Phillips Academy, 
Andover, Mass., where he graduated in 1881. He graduated from Wesleyan 
University in 1886.
  After holding local preacher's license three years during his college 
work, in one of which he acted as supply, he joined the New England 
Southern Conference in 1887.
  On July 7, 1886, he married Miss Addie Belle King, of Falmouth, Mass.
  Grant University conferred the degree of D.D. upon him in 1899.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1887, Colchester, Conn.; 1888-90, 
Sachem Street, Norwich, Conn.; 1891-93, South Manchester, Conn.; 1894-
97, Trinity Church, Providence; 1898-1901, First Church, Chattanooga, 
Holston Conference; 1902-03, Centenary Church, Binghamton, N.Y.