BIO: Justus F. Warner, 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 428-429.
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  Warner, Justus Franklin, was born on April 28, 1848, in Forest Lake, 
Susquehanna County, Pa., and is the fourth son and sixth child of Azor 
and Bertha Warner. He had such educational advantages as the district 
school afforded until sixteen years old, when by his own efforts he 
secured academic training. He had been subject to religious impressions 
in early life, but did not surrender himself unto God until the winter 
of 1861. This was done in a series of services conducted by Rev. R. Van 
Valkenberg, the pastor of Montrose Circuit, which included Forest Lake, 
or Townes, as it was familiarly called. The evidence of sonship came to 
him on December 29, while kneeling with the family in the kitchen of 
his father's house. From the time of conversion he felt called to the 
ministry. On February 14, 1868, Rev. I. P. Towner gave him exhorter's 
license, and on the following fourth of July the Quarterly Conference 
gave him local preacher's license. In 1871 he united with the 
Conference.
  On July 5, 1869, he married Miss Ellen A. Caswell, whom he had known 
from childhood, at Pierson Farm, Venango County, Pa.
  He is the author of a pastoral record, which is pronounced by those 
who have seen it as among the best.
  He has pursued a course of study under the direction of the Boston 
Correspondence School.
  His pastorates have been as follows: 1871-72, Nicholson; 1873-75, 
Thompson; 1876-78, Sterling; 1879, Waymart; 1880-82, Ashley; 1883, sy., 
in charge at Virginia City, Nev.; 1884, Marathon and Killawog; 1885-87, 
New Milford; 1888-90, Jermyn; 1891, Tunkhannock; 1892-94, Owego; 1895-
98, Derr Memorial, Wilkes-Barre; 1899-1903, Presiding Elder of 
Honesdale District.