BIO: John L. Thomas, 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 413.
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  Thomas, John L., was born on February 24, 1855, in the village of 
Illogan Highway, Cornwall, England. In May, 1865, he came to America. 
At the age of seventeen he was converted in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Succasunna, N.J., and soon after joining the Church the 
pastor at Succasunna gave him exhorter's license. He received local 
preacher's license from the Quarterly Conference of Grass Valley 
Church, in California.
  At the age of fourteen he was compelled by force of circumstances to 
work and help support a widowed mother. This prevented his going to 
school as he desired. His work in educational lines has, therefore, 
largely been done at home. He believed himself called to the ministry 
long before he ventured. Through the influence of Rev. R. Hiorns, while 
living at Peckville, he was brought to the attention of Rev. W. M. 
Hiller, presiding elder of Honesdale District, who sent him as supply 
to Hale's Eddy in 1885. After supplying this place one year he joined 
the Conference.
  On December 26, 1884, he married Miss Martha Jane Harway, of Ironia, 
N.J. Two children have been born to them - Lewis C. and Alice M.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1886, Forest City; 1887-89, West 
Nicholson; 1890-91, Union Center; 1892-93, Fly Creek; 1894-95, 
Sanitaria Springs; 1896-98, Afton; 1899-1901, Sidney Center; 1902-03, 
Parsons.