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590 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 &ldquo;Hambacher Volksfest.&rdquo; After his arrival in Philadelphia he was first engaged on the &ldquo;Schnellpost,&rdquo; afterward founded a new German paper, &ldquo;Der Freimuethige,&rdquo; and subsequently acquired possession of the &ldquo;Demokrat,&rdquo; the chief German newspaper in Philadelphia. In 1853 he sold the &ldquo;Demokrat,&rdquo; and afterward resided in the Lebanon valley and in Reading. He was a frequent correspondent of the German newspapers, and published &ldquo;Sketches of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania,&rdquo; a collection of poems and sketches in the mixed German and English of the Pennsylvania Germans (Philadelphia, 1869); &ldquo;Treu bis in den Tod&rdquo; (1875); and &ldquo;Zwei treue Kameraden&rdquo; (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