BIO: Austin Griffin, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB & JO Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 331. ________________________________________________ Griffin, Austin, D.D., was born in Westford, Otsego County, N.Y., on February 1, 1836. he received his education in the public schools and Laurel Bank Seminary, of Deposit, N.Y. He became a Christian when eight years of age. Subsequently he became a thoughtless society youth. However, he was restrained from overt and "outbreaking" sin by grace which never left him. in January, 1857, he made a public profession of religion, and was held by home influences in sympathy with the Baptist Church until 1859, when he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at East Worcester, N.Y. He held a local preacher's license about three weeks, when he joined the Oneida Conference in the spring of 1860, and became a member of this Conference in 1869 by the coming of Otsego and Chenango Districts into our Conference. On February 1, 1858, he married Miss Rosalia O. LaMorne, of East Worcester, N.Y. They have one child, a son, A. L. Griffin, who now lives in Green Ridge, Scranton. Syracuse University conferred the degree of D.D. upon him. He has represented his Conference as a delegate in General Conference four times, 1884, 1892, 1896, and 1900. His pastoral record is as follows: 1860-61, Schuyler's Lake; 1862-63, Laurens; 1864-65, Otsego; 1866-68, Hartwick; 1869, Milford; 1870-71, Oneonta; 1872-74, Carbondale; 1875-77, Centenary Church, Binghamton; 1878-80, West Pittston; 1881-84, Presiding Elder of Wyoming District; 1885-86, Kingston; 1887-90, Central, Wilkes-Barre; 1891-93, Tabernacle, Binghamton; 1894-96, Financial Agent Preacher's Aid Society; 1897-98, Presiding Elder of Oneonta District; 1898-1903, Presiding Elder of Wyoming District.