Background
Waldorf, Ernest Lynn was born on May 14, 1876 in South Valley, Otsego County, New York, United States. Son of David Hiram and Mercy Ann (Thrall) Waldorf.
Waldorf, Ernest Lynn was born on May 14, 1876 in South Valley, Otsego County, New York, United States. Son of David Hiram and Mercy Ann (Thrall) Waldorf.
Bachelor of Arts, Syracuse University, 1900. Doctor of Divinity, Syracuse, 1915. Doctor of Laws, Kansas Wesleyan and Albion (Michigan) College, 1920.
Also Doctor of Laws from De Pauw University, 1934.
The "Waldruff" family originally came from Holland. Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, Waldorf served as a Pastor, and as a Chaplain in the 74th Regiment of the National Guard in Buffalo, New York, 1911-1915. While a bishop in Kansas City, Missouri in the 1920s he championed a proposed Lincoln and Lee University that would be built on the battlefield of the Battle of Westport (biggest battle west of the Mississippi River).
The university would be named for Abraham Lincoln and Robert East. Lee and be built around a proposed national memorial to fallen Civil War soldiers.
The school would eventually form the basis of what is the University of Missouri-Kansas City (and is not affiliated with the church). He offered invocations at the 1928 Republican National Convention (fourth day, June 15, 1928) and the 1936 Republican National Convention (second day, June 10, 1936).
He died after a few months illness, on 27 July 1943 in the Noble Foundation Hospital, Alexandria Bay, New New York He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New New York
Mason, Knights of Pythias. Club: Union League.
Married Flora Janet Irish, January 1902. Children: Lynn Osbert, Ethel Margaret, Paul Douglas, John David, Robert James.