Harry Malcolm Chalfant

Harry Chalfant was born in Washington County in western Pennsylvania. In 1893, at age 23, he was ordained a Methodist Episcopal minister.

Rev. Chalfant's calling was temperance and prohibition. In 1909 he became editor of the Keystone Citizen, which the following year became the Pennsylvania edition of The American Issue, a national publication of the Anti-Saloon League; he retained the position until the year of his death. The Chalfant family moved to Narberth in 1914.

To celebrate the 1919 ratification of the 18th amendment, which outlawed the consumption of alcoholic beverages, Chalfant wrote Father Penn and John Barleycorn, "the history of the rise and fall of the liquor trade".

Chalfant was the uncle of Henry A. Frye, Narberth Burgess 1926–34. Frye lived in the Chalfant home in the 1920 census.

Obituary: "Rev. Harry Chalfant dies of Pneumonia", Our Town, November 18, 1932

Updated April 15, 2026.