Wolfe, John David
merchant, philanthropist, was born July 24, 1792, in New York city. He founded a highschool for girls, known as Wolfe hall, at Denver, Col., and a diocesan school for girls at Topeka, Kan., gave the building for the theological seminary connected with Kenyon college, and a fund for the college of the Sisters of Bethany, at Topeka, Kan., built homes for crippled and destitute children and for impoverished Christian men, in Suffolk county, N. Y., and, with Mrs. Peter Cooper, established the Sheltering Arms charity in New York city. He died May 17, 1872, in New York city.