BIO: Thomas Harroun, 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 336.
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  Harroun, Thomas, was born on June 26, 1825, in Salina, now Syracuse, 
N.Y. He says he received his education at Baker schoolhouse. At the age 
of fifteen he was converted at South Onondaga, N.Y., and soon after 
conversion felt called to preach the Gospel, with which conviction he 
battled several years. At last a series of providential events so 
aroused him as to compel obedience. In 1850 he was given a local 
preacher's license, and shortly after, a vacancy occurring on Onondaga 
Circuit by the illness of the pastor, he was sent as supply to the 
circuit. The year following he was employed as supply on the same 
circuit. In 1852 he joined the Oneida Conference, and became a member 
of this Conference by the allotment of Oneida territory.
  On August 22, 1847, he married Miss Salina A. King, who died at 
Whitney's Point on March 20, 1903. Two sons and a daughter were born to 
them.
  He was elected a delegate to General Conference in 1892.
  His record has been phenomenal - a ministry of half a century without 
a vacation, and missing no appointments on account of sickness. At the 
session of Conference held in Waverly, N.Y., in 1902, he preached a 
semicentennial sermon by request of the Conference. He took for his 
text this clause, from Exod. Xiv, 15: "Speak unto the children of 
Israel, that they go forward."  The sermon was unique, practical, full 
of accreted wisdom of a long life, original. At its close the 
Conference gave him a Chautauqua salute and subsequently presented him 
with a purse of $100.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1852, Lenox; 1853, Nelson; 1854-
55, Fabius; 1856-57, Marcellus; 1858-59, Stockbridge; 1860-61, Fabius; 
1862, Utica; 1863-65, Ithaca; 1866-68, Norwich; 1869-72, Presiding 
Elder of Chenango District; 1873-75, Pittston; 1876-78, Main Street, 
Binghamton; 1879-81, Honesdale; 1882-84, Montrose; 1885-87, 
Factoryville; 1888-93, Presiding Elder of Binghamton District; 1894-96, 
Sayre; 1897, Greene; 1898-1901, Sherburne; 1902-03, Whitney's Point.