Background
Wrenn was born in Highland Park, Illinois.
Wrenn was born in Highland Park, Illinois.
Wrenn attended Harvard University where he was a prominent quarterback on the football team
In 1898, he was serving in Cuba with Theodore Roosevelt"s Rough Riders in the Spanish–American War. He contracted yellow fever while in Cuba. In the final against the British Isles at the Longwood Cricket Club, Boston, Master of Arts they were defeated 1–4 and Wrenn lost both his singles matches against Reginald and Lawrence Doherty as well as the doubles against the Doherty brothers.
He was arrested in 1914 when his chauffeur-driven car ran over and killed Herbert George Loveday, the choir director of Street Mary"s Church, in Tuxedo Park, New New York
Wrenn was exonerated when, according to The New York Times (May 21, 1914), "The Grand Jury, finding from testimony that the mechanism of the car had become disarranged, and the steering gear powerless, declined to find an indictment, and the complaint was dismissed."
Wrenn was vice-president of the United States Tennis Association from 1902 until 1911 and president from 1912 until 1915. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1955.
Singles (4 titles, 1 runner-up)
Doubles (1 title, 1 runner-up).
1 left-handed American tennis player, four-time United States. singles championship winner, and one of the first inductees in the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He won his tennis titles in 1893, 1894, 1896 and 1897 (losing out to Fred Hovey in 1895). Wrenn played for the United States. Davis Cup team in 1903 together with his brother George.
