BIO: Charles M. Giffin, 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 327.
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  Giffin, Charles M., D.D., was born near Cincinnati, O. He was 
converted in Christie Chapel, Cincinnati, and licensed to preach at 
sixteen years of age. He attended the public schools of Cincinnati, and 
is a graduate of the Law Department of Cincinnati College (now known as 
McMicken University), and was admitted to the Cincinnati bar. He began 
his ministry when nineteen years of age.
  On January 14, 1869, he married Miss Belle Lampley, of Brooklyn, N.Y. 
They have three sons, one in business, and two are members of New York 
East Conference, namely, Mortimer P. and William G.
  Wesleyan gave him the degree of A.M., and in 1884 Dickinson honored 
him with D.D. He was editor of the Independent Methodist, published in 
Baltimore, four years. He was a delegate to the first and third 
Ecumenical Conferences of Methodism, and a speaker at the first. He is 
now (1902) under appointment as fraternal messenger to the Reformed 
Episcopal Church.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1862-63, Mainville Circuit, 
Cincinnati Conference; 1864, Mear's Chapel, Cincinnati; 1865-66, Mount 
Washington, Cincinnati Conference; 1867, sy.; New York East Conference, 
1868-69, Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn; 1870-72, New Haven, Conn.; 1873-75, 
Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn; 1876, First Place, Brooklyn; 1877-85, St. 
John's Independent Methodist Church, Baltimore; 1885-88, Kentucky 
Conference, Union Church, Covington; 1889-93, New York East Conference, 
Grace Church, Brooklyn; 1894-95, First Church, Mount Vernon, N.Y.; 
1896-1903, Wyoming Conference, Elm Park Church, Scranton.