BIO: Jonathan Worthing, 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 265-266.
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  WORTHING, JONATHAN, was born in 1791.  He joined the New England 
Conference in 1810.  He served three charges in that Conference, to 
wit: 1810, Tuftonboro and Rochester; 1811, Industry; 1812, Falmouth.  
In 1812 he was admitted into full connection with the Conference and 
ordained deacon.  He located in 1813, and received elder's orders in 
1816.  By becoming surety for a friend he lost what property he had and 
became overwhelmed with debt.  He was so much involved that he could 
not expect to pay his obligations and remain in the ministry.  To face 
public as a bankrupt was inconsistent with his idea of propriety.  He 
therefore located and began the task of extricating himself from debt, 
which he finally accomplished.
  By advice of Bishop Hedding he sought connection with the Genesee 
Conference and was received in 1825.  As the territory was divided and 
the Oneida Conference organized, and as the Oneida Conference was 
divided and the Wyoming Conference organized, he became a member of 
these Conferences.
  During the years of his active ministry he received about twelve 
hundred members into the Church.  After his superannuation he settled 
in Binghamton, where he lived until his death, August 11, 1874.
  His appointments were as follows:  1825-26, Camden; 1827-28, 
Westmoreland; 1829-30, Herkimer; 1831, Fulton; 1832, Fabius; 1833-34, 
Onondaga; 1835-36, Madison; 1837-38, Scipio; 1839, Scott; 1840, 
Spafford; 1841, Scipio; 1842-43, Owasco; 1844, Ledyard; 1845, sd.; 
1846, Groton; 1847, Dryden and Virgil; 1848, sd.; 1849-50, Freetown; 
1851-74, sd.