Chafer, Thomas F

Chafer, Thomas F.

a Congregational minister, was born at Hull, England, Nov. 14. 1830. He came to America in 1838, and resided in Kentucky; graduated from Farmers College in 1856 and from Auburn Theological Seminary in 1865. April 11, 1866, he was ordained at Rising Sun, Ind.; and from that time until 1870 was acting-pastor at Downer's Grove, Ill. Subsequently he resided, without charge until 1872, in Kansas. From 1872 until 1877 he was acting pastor at Morgan, O.; in 1878 and 1879 served in the same relation at East Smithfield, Pa.; and from 1879 at Rock Creek, O., until his death, which occurred there, May 14, 1882. See Cong. Yearbook, 1883, p. 20.