Background
Wendte, Charles William was born on June 11, 1844 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles and Johanna (Ebeling) Wendte.
Wendte, Charles William was born on June 11, 1844 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles and Johanna (Ebeling) Wendte.
Educated Chauncy Hall School, Boston. Studied 1 year in Hanover, Germany. Graduated from Harvard Divinity School, 1869.
Doctor of Divinity, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 1909.
In commercial business, Boston and San Francisco, 1858-1866. Instructor German, Harvard, 1868-1869. Ordained Unitarian ministry, 1869.
Pastor, Chicago, 1869-1875, Cincinnati, O., 1875-1882, Newport, Rhode Island, 1882-1885, Oakland, California, 1886-1898, Newton Center, Massachusetts, 1899-1901, Boston, 1901-1905, Brighton, Massachusetts, 1905-1908.
Vice president International Congress of Free Christians and other Religious Liberals, since 1900. Foreign secretary American Unitarian Association, 1908-1915.
Honorary president Federation of Religious Liberals, since 1909. President Free Religious Association of America.
President Unitarian Ministerial Union, 1915.
Author: Memoir of Review Charles T. Brooks, 1885. The Student’s Diary, 1888. The Sunnyside, 1876; The Carol, 1885.
Jubilate Deo, 1900.
Freedom and
Married Abbie L. Grant, April.