established an Italian mission, costing $50,000, and a newsboys' lodging-house, and a diocesan house which, including its endowment, cost $170,000. This was her last act of public charity. She also founded or built schools and churches in many places in the west and south, added to the funds of Alexandria seminary, the American school at Athens, Griswold college, and distributed large amounts annually among the indigent clergy and the deserving poor through the ministers and charitable institutions of the Protestant Episcopal church. In 1884 she sent an expedition to Asia Minor in charge of Dr. William H. Ward, which made important archaeological discoveries. Miss Wolfe took special interest in Grace church, of which she was a member, and during her life gave to it the chantry, the reredos, a large memorial win- dow, and Grace house, all of which amounted to over $250,000. By her will she left an endowment of $350,000 to that church. Her fondness for art was shown in her residence at 13 Madison avenue, which was filled with paintings, many of which she selected during her visits abroad, and of these Lud- wig Knaus's " Holy Family " and Gabriel Max's " The Last Greeting " are the best known. In ad- dition to her city house she owned a villa at New- port, R. I., that was elegantly furnished, and other country houses. Miss Wolfe left her valuable col- lection of modern paintings to the Metropolitan museum of art, together with $200,000 for its preservation and enlargement.
WOLFF, Bernard Crouse, clergyman, b. in
Martinsburg, Va., 11 Dec, 1794; d. in Lancaster,
Pa., 1 Nov., 1870. He received a classical educa-
tion ' at the Chambersburg high - school, studied
theology at the seminary cf the German Reformed
church at York, Pa., after having carried on busi-
ness as a mechanic in Martinsburg for thirteen
years, and became the English pastor of the church
at Easton, Pa., in 1833. In 1845 he left that place
to become pastor of a Reformed church in Balti-
more, Md., and in 1854 became professor of didac-
tic and practical theology in the seminary at Mer-
cersburg. After retiring from the chair in 1864 he
removed to Lancaster, and was active and success-
ful in obtaining contributions for Franklin and
Marshall college. Rutgers gave him the degree of
D. D. in 1843. He was for several years president
of the German Reformed board of foreign mis-
sions, a member of the liturgical committee from
1849 till 1868, when the liturgy was completed,
and a frequent contributor to the church publica-
tions, having begun his literary labors while a
theological student bv editing the " German Re-
formed Magazine." He translated for his classes
Johann H. A. Ebrard's " Christliche Dogmatik,"
and was engaged in preparing the work for publi-
cation when he died.
WOLLE, Peter, Moravian bishop, b. on the
island of St. John, W. I., 5 Jan., 1792; d. in Beth-
lehem, Pa., 14 Nov., 1871. His father, a Moravian
missionary in the West Indies, came to this coun-
try in 1800, and placed his son in school at Naza-
reth, Pa. Peter was afterward one of the first
three graduates of the theological seminary of the
American Moravian church, and after his ordina-
tion had charge of the churches at Lancaster,
Philadelphia, and Lititz. While laboring at Lititz
he was consecrated to the episcopacy, 26 Sept.,
1845. He was an active member of the executive
or governing board of the northern district of the
church for nearly twenty - five years, and at his
death was senior bishop of the Moravian church
in Europe and America. He possessed a thorough
knowledge of music, and by direction of the synod
revised and rearranged the hymn-tunes that are
now in use in the Moravian churches. — His nephew,
Francis, botanist, b. in Jacobsburg, near Xaz.i-
reth, Pa., 17 Dec., 1817, was educated in the Mo-
ravian parochial school in Bethlehem, and then
became a clerk in his father's store. Subse-
quently he taught, first at Nazareth hall and
then in the higher departments of the Moravian
parochial school in Bethlehem. He became in
1857 vice-principal of the Moravian seminary for
young ladies, and in 1861 principal of that insti-
tution, which place he held until 1881. He was
ordained a clergyman in the Moravian church
in 1861, but is now retired. In 1852 he patented
in the United States, and later in France and Eng-
land, a machine that he devised for making paper
bags. It was the first of its kind, and covers the
fundamental principle of the many similar ma-
chines that are now used. From early boyhood
he made natural history a study, particularly en-
tomology, which later gave place to botany. At
first he studied phaenogams, then cryptogams,
especially musci, hepaticae, and finally the fresh-
water alga? of the United States. He has con-
tributed papers on his specialties to the " Bulletin
of the Torrey Botanical Club," and similar pe-
riodicals. His works, which are recognized as
authorities both in this country and abroad, are
" Desmids of the United States, and List of Pedi-
astrums," with 1,100 illustrations bv the author
(Bethlehem, Pa., 1884), and " The "Fresh-Water
Algae of the United States," with 2,300 illustra-
tions by the author (2 vols., 1887).
WOLLENWEBER, Louis August, author, b.
in Speyer, on the Rhine, Germany, 5 Dec., 1807;
d. in Reading, Pa., 25 July, 1888. He was educated
at Speyer for the trade of a printer, was employed
at his vocation at Homburg, and was compelled
to emigrate to this country in consequence of his
being one of the agitators of the “Hambacher
Volksfest.” After his arrival in Philadelphia he
was first engaged on the “Schnellpost,” afterward
founded a new German paper, “Der Freimuethige,”
and subsequently acquired possession of
the “Demokrat,” the chief German newspaper in
Philadelphia. In 1853 he sold the “Demokrat,”
and afterward resided in the Lebanon valley and
in Reading. He was a frequent correspondent of
the German newspapers, and published “Sketches
of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania,” a collection of
poems and sketches in the mixed German and
English of the Pennsylvania Germans (Philadelphia,
1869); “Treu bis in den Tod” (1875); and
“Zwei treue Kameraden” (1878).
WOLLEY, Charles, clergyman, b. in Lincoln,
England, about 1652 ; the date of his death is un-
known. He was graduated at Cambridge in 1673,
sailed for New York, 27 May, 1678, in company
with Sir Edmund Andros, and was chaplain of
Fort James there from the date of his arrival till
1680, when he returned to England. He is said to
have been afterward settled at A] ford, Lincoln-
shire. He published " A Two Years' Journal in
New York, and Part of its Territories in America "
(London, 1701), of which a new edition, with copi-
ous historical and biographical notes, was issued
by Edmund B. O'Callaghan (New York, 1860).
WOLSELEY, Garnet Joseph, Viscount, British soldier, b. in Golden Bridge house, near Dublin, Ireland, 4 June, 1833. He is the son of an army officer, and is descended from a Staffordshire family. He was educated privately, entered the army as ensign in March, 1852, became a captain in 1855, major in 1858, and colonel in June, 1865. He served in the Burmese war of 1852-*3, in the
