BIO: Peter S. Worden, 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 268-269.
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  WORDEN, PETER S., A.M., was born in Smyrna, N.Y., on March 27, 1817, 
and died in Binghamton, N.Y., on July 28, 1889, and was buried in 
Spring Forest Cemetery, in the city where he died.
  Reared with meager advantages, early crippled and always feeble, he 
nevertheless attained a goodly degree of scholarship and was broadly 
read.
  In his anxiety to save Susquehanna Seminary he gave four years of 
heroic, unrequited toil, and $1,000 from his hard-earned savings.  This 
hardly tells the story.  He was principal and his wife preceptress of 
the school five years.  Both gave their services for four years, in 
addition to the money.  It was a great fight for a losing cause.
  He was twice married; first, in January, 1839, to Miss Sarah Green, 
who was born in German, Chenango County, N.Y., and who died in 
Binghamton, December 24, 1885; second, to Mrs. Boyce, who survived him.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1839, Greene; 1840, Page Brook; 
1841-42, Berkshire; 1843-44, Waverly and Athens; 1845-46, Tunkhannock 
and Wyoming; 1847, Carbondale; 1848-49, Berkshire; 1850-51, Newark; 
1852, sd.; 1853-54, Speedsville; 1855, Berkshire; 1856, Court Street, 
Binghamton; 1857-61, Principal of Susquehanna Seminary; 1862, Maine; 
1863, Court Street, Binghamton; 1864-65, Broome; 1866, Chenango; 1867, 
Page Brook; 1868-69, Union, N.Y.; 1870, Port Dickinson; 1871-89, sd.