BIO: Egbert Kilpatrick, 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 355.
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  Kilpatrick, Egbert, was born on August 23, 1855, in Roxbury, Delaware 
County, N.Y. He was educated in the common schools and at Wyoming 
Seminary. He was converted in June, 1874, and joined the Church in 
1875. He realized that he was called to the ministry when a boy. In 
March, 1882, he received exhorter's license and local preacher's 
license in August of the same year. He was reared on a farm, and 
followed farming and school-teaching more or less before joining 
Conference in 1884.
  On March 28, 1875, he married Miss Elma A. Stanton, of Lake Como 
charge, who died in Bainbridge, N.Y., October 4, 1896. In July, 1897, 
he married Miss Harriet Briggs, of Mount Vision, N.Y. 
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1884, Hale's Eddy; 1885-87, 
Canaan; 1888-90, Hartwick; 1891, Windsor and Quaquaga; 1892-94, 
Windsor; 1895-96, Bainbridge; 1897-98, Otego; 1899-1900, Cooperstown; 
1901-02, Oxford; 1903, Peckville.