Luther Benaiah Wolf

Background

Wolf, Luther Benaiah was born on November 29, 1857 in Abbottstown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John George and Eleanor Catharine (Bittinger) Wolf.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg Theological Seminary, 1883. Doctor of Divinity, Wittenberg. 1903; fellow Madras University, 1893.

Career

Ordained Lutheran ministry, 1883. Principal American Evangelical Lutheran Mission College, Guntur, India, 1883-1907. After merger of Lutheran churches as United Lutheran Church in America, served as secretary-treasurer of its Board of Foreign Missions, and as home base secretary, since 1928.

Retired from active service July 1, 1933.

Author: After Fifty Years (historical sketch of the Guntur Mission), 1895. Missionary Heroes of the Lutheran Church, 1911.

Home: Baltimore, Maryland.

Achievements

• Luther Benaiah Wolf has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Alice Catherine Benner, July 3, 1883. Children: Mistress Edith Norris Crigler, Mistress Eleanor Stewart, Anna Dryden, Paul Benner.

Father:

John George Wolf

Mother:

Eleanor Catharine (Bittinger) Wolf

Spouse:

Alice Catherine Benner

child:

Anna Dryden Wolf

child:

Paul Benner Wolf

child:

Mistress Eleanor Stewart Wolf

child:

Mistress Edith Norris Crigler Wolf