BIO: Truman F. Hall, 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 332. ________________________________________________ Hall, Truman F., D.D., was born on February 27, 1854, in the town of Butternuts, Otsego County, N.Y., where he spent the first ten years of his life, when the family moved to Delaware County, N.Y. At the age of seventeen he left home for advanced education. He attended Cazenovia Seminary some time, but did not graduate on account of serious trouble with his eyes. He subsequently attended school in a broken way, as opportunity presented, with occasional terms of teaching. In 1876 he joined the Conference. On October 6, 1875, he married Miss Alice A. Welch, of Bainbridge, N.Y. One child, a son, has been born to them. In 1901 Bennett College, of Greensboro, N.C., conferred the degree of D.D. upon him. His pastoral record is as follows: 1876-77, Exeter and Schuyler's Lake; 1878, Westville; 1879-80, Middlefield; 1881-83, Westford; 1884, Gilbertsville and Morris; 1885-87, Otego; 1888-90, Cooperstown; 1891- 94, Bainbridge; 1895-98, High Street, Binghamton; 1898-1903, Presiding Elder of Oneonta District.