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- In 1835 Catskill and Durham circuit was formed with Daniel I. Wright and P. Cook as preachers. This circuit included all of the preaching places between Catskill and Durham and those naturally counted with them. The successive preachers were: 1836, Daniel I. Wright and W. C. Hoyt; 1837, J. M. Pease and W. C. Hoyt; 1838, D. Devinne and A. C. Felds; 1839, D. Devinne and W. F. Gould; 1840, W. F. Collins and F. W. Sizer; 1841, W. F. Collins and W. Bloomer; 1842, O. G. Hedstrom, W. Bloomer and R. H. Bloomer; 1843, J. D. Bouton and R. H. Bloomer. At the end of this year the work was again narrowed and Catskill became the head centre of the work, and the convenient home of the itinerant preacher.
Lived pretty much next door to Andrew J Bloomer's family. Was a publisher. The Newburgh Times
Date of birth taken from his gravestone--Cedar Hill Cemetery.
1860 census says farmer/editor
1850 census calls him "Richard"
The Chase family was a family of active Methodists, many of whom were Methodists preachers, as was Reuben himself.
If the temperance workers had abandoned the western end of the county as wholly reclaimed or as irreclaimable, they had an eye or two on the eastern end of the district, and in March, 1856, Royal B Hancock, "as agent for an association of gentlement," started in Newburgh a temperance paper which he called the Newburgh Times. It passed into the hands of R. Bloomer and Son, who sold it to Alexander Wilson, he to Charles Blanchard, and the latter, in 1867, turned it into the Newburgh Daily Democrat. The latter failed in a few months.
The History of Orange County, NY
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1806 - 1866 (59 years)
Jacob Bloomer, b. 6 Feb 1781, Newburgh, NY 
1783 - 1831 (48 years)