BIO: Clinton B. Henry, 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 340-341.
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Henry, Clinton Brooks, was born on May 26, 1864, at White Haven, Pa. He 
attended the White Haven High School, and is a graduate of Wyoming 
Seminary and of Drew Theological Seminary, class of 1895.
  He was converted at Tunkhannock in the spring of 1886. When in 
Wilkes-Barre, where he was working at the printer's trade, he felt 
called by God to his work, and especially to the foreign mission field. 
In 1888 he was granted local preacher's license by the Central 
Methodist Episcopal Church.
  A part of the year 1892 he was general secretary of the Young Men's 
Christian Association at Kingston, Pa. Nearly three years he worked in 
New York city missions as assistant pastor of the Allen Street Memorial 
Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Cornell Memorial Methodist 
Episcopal Church.
  He joined the Conference in 1895, having received deacon's orders in 
1893.
  On May 29, 1895, he married Miss Valara Emma Edwards.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1895-99, Alderson; 1900-02, 
Taylor; 1903, Luzerne.