BIO: William Round, 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 239.
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  ROUND, WILLIAM, was born in Richfield, Otsego County, N.Y., March 5, 
1803, and died at Manassas, Va., September 5, 1881.
  He was converted at the age of ten, and at once began to take active 
part in the social meetings of the church.  Two years after his 
conversion he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at a camp 
meeting held by Lorenzo Dow in Winfield, N.Y.  After spending five 
years in teaching in public schools he entered the newly opened 
Cazenovia Seminary, where he spent some time.  He joined the Genesee 
Conference in 1828, and became a member of the Oneida at its 
organization in 1829.  Upon its division in 1852 he became a member of 
Wyoming.
  At the age of thirty he married Miss Sarah Ann Carr, of Otego, N.Y., 
who with two sons and a daughter survived him.
  He preached a semicentennial sermon before the Conference in 1878, 
which was an elaborate expose of his itinerant life and was afterward 
published by request of the Conference.
  His pastoral record is as follow:  1828, Fabius; 1829, Mentz; 1830-
31, Lebanon; 1832-33, Chenango; 1834, Hamilton; 1835, Winfield; 1836-
37, Otsego; 1838-39, Wyoming; 1840, Bridgewater; 1841, Springville; 
1842, Pittston; 1843-44, Brooklyn; 1845-46, Montrose; 1847-48, Barton; 
1849-50, Candor; 1851-52, Windsor; 1853-54, Page Brook; 1855-56, 
Gibson; 1857-58, Conklin; 1859-60, Castle Creek; 1861-62, Windsor; 
1863, sd.; 1864, Page Brook; 1865-66, sd.; 1867, Windsor; 1868-69, 
Hawleyton; 1870-81, sd.