BIO: Lucien S. Bennett, 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 156.
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  BENNETT, LUCIEN S., was born about 1810, and died in Wilkes-Barre, 
Pa., on August 3, 1851.
  We have been unable to find a memoir of him.  He died the August 
prior to the organization of the Wyoming Conference.  Living within the 
territory which formed the Conference, his death was noted at the first 
session, and his widow was a claimant upon the funds of the Conference 
for many years.  No memoir was published in the Wyoming Conference 
Minutes or the General Minutes.  A search of the Church papers has 
furnished nothing.
  After superannuation he moved to Kingston, Pa., where he lived about 
three years, when he moved to Wilkes-Barre.  His wife, Selina, lost 
health through long watching and waiting upon her husband.  After a 
while she became bewitched by spiritualism, and later became insane.  
In 1870 she was place in the State asylum at Harrisburg, Pa., where she 
died October 6, 1892.
  He joined Oneida Conference in 1834, and served the following charges 
as stated:  1834, Bridgewater; 1835, Brooklyn; 1836-37, Canaan; 1838, 
Dundaff; 1839, Windsor; 1840, Canaan; 1841, Bethany; 1842-43, Wyoming; 
1844, sd.; 1845, sy.; 1846, sd.; 1847, Tunkhannock; 1848-51, sd.