BIO: John F. Williams, 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 263.
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  WILLIAMS, JOHN F., was born in Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pa., on 
September 27, 1844, and died in the city hospital of Wilkes-Barre, 
whither he had gone for a surgical operation, on February 18, 1896.
  He early became an orphan, and at the age of seventeen, in 1861, he 
enlisted in the 58th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, and, by 
subsequent reenlistment on the field, continued in his country's 
service four years and four months.
  After returning from the war he took a commercial course in the 
Eastman Business College.
  He is believed to have been converted and to have joined the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., under the ministry of 
Rev. John Cookman.  Believing himself called by God to the ministry, he 
entered Wyoming Seminary in the fall of 1869, where he remained three 
years.  He maintained himself about half of this time by teaching in 
the College of Business as an associate of Rev. L. L. Sprague.
  During the winter of 1871-72 he was called to fill a vacancy at 
Dunmore, Pa., and in the spring of 1872 he joined Wyoming Conference.
  On December 13, 1871, he married Miss Mary Elizabeth Peck, daughter 
of Rev. Luther W. Peck, D.D.  Three children were born to them - Luther 
P., Mary Emma, and Edward G.  The last named died while the family was 
living at Schenevus, and was buried there.  When the father passed away 
he was taken to Schenevus and buried by the side of his boy.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1872, Spencer; 1873-74, Windham; 
1875, Sterling; 1876-77, Jermyn; 1878-79, Hawley; 1880-82, Afton; 1883-
85, Schenevus; 1886-88, Smyrna; 1889-92, Plains; 1893, Dallas; 1894-95, 
Luzerne.