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Woerner, J. Gabriel – Wolfe, John B
Woerner, J. Gabriel
lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born April 28, 1826, in Germany. He served two terms in the Missouri senate; in 1864 was mayor of St. Louis, and in 1870 was elected judge of the probate court of St. Louis county.
Wofford, John W
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 14, 1837, in Georgia.
He served in the house and senate of Georgia; and was in the confederate service from the beginning to the end of the war. In 1892 he was appointed judge of the Jackson county criminal court at Kansas City, Mo.; and was elected to continue in that position.
Wolcott, Edward Oliver
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born March 26, 1848, in Long Meadow, Mass. He served for a few months as private in the one hundred and fiftieth regiment of Ohio volunteers in 1864. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican from Denver, Col., and took his seat March 4, 1889. He was reelected in 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.
Wolcott, Henry Roger
financier, state senator, was born March 15, 1846, in Long Meadow, Mass. He is now treasurer of the Colorado Mining and Smelting company, a director of the Equitable Life Assurance society of New York. He was a member of the state senate of Colorado in 1878-82, and president pro tem. during his last term.
Wolcott, Roger
colonial governor, poet, was born Jan. 4, 1679, in Windsor, Conn. He was a colonial governor of Connecticut in 1750-54, and the author of Poetical Meditations. He died May 17, 1767, in East Windsor, Conn.
Wolcott, Roger
lawyer, statesman, was born July 13, 1847, in Boston, Mass.
He served in the common council of Boston in 1877-79; in the state house of representatives in 1882-84; and in 1892 and again in 1893, was elected lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts.
Wolcott, Samuel
clergyman, missionary, poet, was born July 2, 1813, in Windsor, Conn. He was missionary in Syria for three years. He was the author of a genealogy of the Wolcott Family, and wrote numerous hymns. He died in February, 1886, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Woldinger, Joseph
manufacturer, state legislator, was born Jan. 7, 1827, in Wilson, Wis. He is president of the Sprangers Clothing company of South Kaukauna, Wis., and president of the Dundas Butter and Cheese company. In 1894 he was elected a member of the Wisconsin state assembly, and was reelected in 1896.
Wolf, Edmund Jacob
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1840 in Pennsylvania. He is a lutheran clergyman, professor in the Theological seminary at Gettysburg from 1874, and the author of History of the Lutherans in America.
Wolfe, Henry E
clergyman, was born Aug. 5, 1859, in Ortonville, Mich.
In 1886 he graduated from the Albion college of Boston, Mass.; subsequently from the University School of Theology, and has received the degrees of A. M. and S. T. B. He has filled pastorates in the methodist episcopal churches at Calumet, Saginaw and Flint, Mich., and has contributed extensively to religious publications.
Wolfe, James B
educator, college president, was born Nov. 14, 1856, in Sullivan county, Tenn. In 1885 he graduated from the National Normal university of Lebanon, Ohio; has been superintendent of the Bremond public schools, Texas; principal of the Calvert High school, and president of the Gladeville college, Virginia.
Wolfe, John B
clergyman, philanthropist, was born May 14, 1843, in Bond county, Ill. He served in the civil war, and has attained prominence as one of the most eminent clergymen of Illinois.
He has been secretary of the Illinois conference of the methodist episcopal church; presiding elder, a delegate to the general conference of 1896, and a delegate to the national conference of charities held in Toronto, Ontario, in 1897. He now fills a pastorate in Bloomington, Ill.