BIO: Charles M. Olmstead, 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 380.
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  Olmstead, Charles M., Ph.D., was born on November 23, 1868, at South 
Worcester, Otsego County, N.Y. He graduated from Hartwick Seminary in 
1886, Cazenovia Seminary in 1891, and from Syracuse University in 1895, 
with degree of A.B. In the winter of 1880 he was converted in a revival 
at South Worcester. He was in business for some time with his father in 
Sidney, N.Y. When the call came to enter the ministry he was unwilling 
to leave a lucrative business. However, as time passed he felt so 
pressed by duty that he decided to enter the ministry. Exhorter's and 
local preacher's licenses were given him in 1888 and 1889, and he 
joined this Conference in 1894.
  On July 31, 1895, he married Miss Lillian Beatrice Scott.  
  He received the degree of Ph.D. from Illinois Wesleyan University in 
1903.
  His pastorates have been as follows: 1894, North Norwich; 1895-98, 
Castle Creek; 1899-1902, Guilford; 1903, Chenango Street, Binghamton.