Background
Halstead, William Riley was born on March 19, 1848 in Vigo Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Reuben and Louisa (Brown) Halstead.
Halstead, William Riley was born on March 19, 1848 in Vigo Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Reuben and Louisa (Brown) Halstead.
Bachelor of Science, Asbury (now DePauw) U., 1871, Master of Arts, 1874, Doctor of Divinity, 1886.
Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1872. Pastor Worthington, Indiana, 1873, Spencer, 1875, Mitchell, 1876-1880. President DePauw College, New Albany, Indiana, 1880-1881.
Pastor Indianapolis, 1882-1884, Greencastle, 1884-1887. Presiding elder Indianapolis district, 1887-1890. Pastor Bloomington, Indiana, 1890-1894.
Presiding elder Evansville district, 1895-1898. Pastor St. Paul’s Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1898-1899, Frankfort, Indiana, 1899-1901. Correspondent secretary Mechanical Engineering Deaconess Home and Hospital, 1901-1903.
Retired, 1903. Author: The Tragedy of Labor, 1919. Some Social Aspects of Religion, 1919. Christ in the Universe, 1929.
Home: Terre Haute, Ind.
Married Candace Kennedy, 1873 (died 1873). Married second, Martha Taylor, 1875 (died 1902).; married 3d, Ella Briggs Pegg, March 8, 1906.
Children: William Leon, Eloise (deceased), Harry, Riley Courtlandt (deceased).