Stebbins, Stephen J

Stebbins, Stephen J., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born at South Salem, Westchester Co., N.Y., in 1808. He professed conversion May 10, 1828, and soon after joined the Church. He was licensed to preach in 1836, and in 1839 was received into the New York Conference. After several years he was transferred to the New York East Conference, in which he continued to preach until 1867, when he ended his regular labors. He then removed to Bethel, Conn., where he died, Feb. 3, 1876. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1876, p. 62.