EV. WILLIAM A. DOFFLEMYER was born March 17, 1834, and died May 19, 1893, in his sixtieth year. He was buried with Masonic honors in Leaksville cemetery.

      He was converted and joined East Liberty church in 1854, and later removed his membership to Newport, where it remained until his death. He married Matilda J. Gaine, July 12, 1855.

      In 1868, at the Conference at Bethlehem, he was ordained and set apart to the office of Elder by the following presbytery: Elders Wellons, Allemong, and Kibler. He became a valiant defender of the cause and exerted a wide influence during his connection with the Conference. He was a member of the Conference twenty-four years, of which he was elected president four times and secretary three times, which positions he filled very acceptably. Four or five years before his death, he suffered from dropsy, but he performed his duties notwithstanding his affliction. He was a man of no ordinary ability.

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