Background
Shanafelt, Thomas M. was born on April 30, 1840 in Brinkerton, Clarion Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Nicholas and Keziah (Greenland) Shanafelt.
Shanafelt, Thomas M. was born on April 30, 1840 in Brinkerton, Clarion Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Nicholas and Keziah (Greenland) Shanafelt.
Educated Clarion (Pennsylvania) Academy, Bucknell University, A. B., 1861, Crozer Theological Seminary, graduate 1865. (A. M., Doctorate. Doctorate., Bucknell).
Served Company A, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Ordained to Baptist ministry at Muncy, Pennsylvania. Was pastor 22 years of Baptist churches at Three Rivers, Hudson, Howell and Saginaw, Michigan. State superintendent Baptist missions for South. Dakota since April 1, 1888.
Chaplain-in-chief G. A. R., 1893-1894.
Chaplain Department South. Dakota, G. A. R., 1893. President South. Dakota State History Society, 1904-1907.
President of the board commissioner South. Dakota Soldiers’ Home since 1901.
Secretary Michigan Baptist State Convention, 15 years.
Secretary South. Dakota Baptist Convention, 18 years. Member International Board Mgrs.
B. Y. P. U.; president Western Ministers’ Aid Society since 1897.
Author: Baptist History of Michigan, 1886. Baptist History of South Dakota, 1898. Baptist History of North Dakota, 1904.
Address: Huron, South. Dakota
Member International Board Mgrs. B. Y. P. U.
Married October 23, 1866, Phebe M. Gilday, Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania.