BIO: Thomas P. Halstead, 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, pages 191-192.
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  HALSTEAD, THOMAS P., was born in Stockbridge, Madison County, N.Y., 
on September 11, 1830, and died in Afton, N.Y., on April 22, 1891, 
after a few days' sickness of pneumonia.
  He was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church when 
twenty years of age.
  His whole life was in the itinerancy, being the son of Rev. Henry 
Halstead.  His license to exhort was received in 1856, and local 
preacher's license was given him in August, 1857, when he was at once 
appointed as junior preacher at Hartwick charge under Louis Hartsough, 
senior preacher.  In the ensuing October he was appointed as supply to 
Morris charge, and in 1858 he joined the Oneida Conference, becoming a 
member of Wyoming Conference with the allotment of Oneida territory in 
1869.
  On September 15, 1852, he married Lina Merrill, of Hartwick, Otsego 
County, N.Y.  Mrs. Halstead's health failed during the Taylorville 
pastorate, at the close of which she was removed to the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. Clifford Carrington, of Afton, N.Y., where she remained 
an invalid until her death on December 24, 1891.  Husband and wife lie 
side by side in the Glenwood Cemetery at Afton.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1858, Bainbridge; 1859-60, 
Plymouth, N.Y.; 1861-62, Earlville; 1863-64, East Hamilton; 1865-67, 
Unadilla; 1868-70, Oxford; 1871-72, Sherburne; 1873-75, Afton; 1876, 
Guilford; 1877-79, Mount Upton; 1880-82, Worcester; 1883-85, Newark; 
1886, Taylorville; 1887, sd.; 1888, Athens; 1889, Worcester, and 
Presiding Elder on Oneonta District; 1890-91, Presiding Elder on 
Oneonta District.