Rev. Dr. Edmund J. Wolf, D.D. and Ella Kemp

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Husband Rev. Dr. Edmund J. Wolf, D.D. ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Dec 1840 - near Rebersburg, Centre Co, PA 1
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         Father: Jacob Wolf (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary Gast (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1865 1

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Wife Ella Kemp ¹

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         Father: John Kemp (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Ellen [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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1 F M. Roberta Wolf ¹

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2 M Edmund J. Wolf ¹

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3 M Charles S. Wolf ¹

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4 M Carroll K. Wolf ¹

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5 U Robbin B. Wolf ¹

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6 F Ethel S. Wolf ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Dr. Edmund J. Wolf, D.D.

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He was next to the youngest of nine children, attended the district school of the neighborhood, and, for a time, the academy at Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, and subsequently that at Aaronsburg. He clerked for a period, and prepared himself for college during the two years he was engaged as a teacher in the academy of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and in 1860, entered the sophomore class in Pennsylvania College, and graduated in 1863, taking the first honors of his class. During the invasion of the state that year by the Confederate troops, he served as a non-commissioned officer in the Twenty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. Subsequently he took a course of theological study at the Seminary of Gettysburg; then pursued his studies in Germany, where he attended the Universities of Tübingen and Erlangen. He returned to the United States in 1865, and was for two years engaged in ministerial work in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and for six years in the city of Baltimore. He became professor of Biblical and Ecclesiastical History and New Testament Exegesis, in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, elected in 1873. In addition to this professorship, Dr. Wolf for several years taught Dogmatic Theology in the seminary, and beginning in 1880 he was joint editor of the Quarterly Review of the Lutheran Church. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him in 1876 by Franklin and Marshall College. In 1871 he was the alumni speaker of the seminary. He twice visited Europe, and traveled extensively through England, Germany, France and Switzerland. In 1877 he declined the presidency of Roanoke College in Virginia.
Among the Doctor's publications are "the Christian Church" (translated); "Quarterly Review, XX., 418;" "Practical Expositions of the Scriptures" (translated); "Lutheran Quarterly, II, 179;" "The Retreat of Science on the Antiquity of the Human Race" (translated), Ib. III, 450; "Inaugural Address," Ib. IV, 419; article on "Lutheran Church in America," in the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia; "The Church's Future;" "The Drama of Providence on the Eve of the Reformation;" sermons in the "Homiletic Review" and the "Pulpit Treasury," etc. Dr. Wolf was a frequent contributor to various religious periodicals, and was a member of the society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.

The Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A theological seminary for the special training and preparation of the Lutheran ministry was established in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in 1826. In 1831 the cornerstone of a seminary building was laid, and the next year it was opened for the reception of students. It in a large measure realized the expectations of its founders, having sent forth over 600 ministers [1886], besides furnishing presidents and professors for nearly all the colleges and theological schools within the bounds of the General Synod, and also for many outside of it. It has furnished a large proportion of the missionaries representing the Lutheran Church of this country in the foreign field.

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General Notes: Wife - Ella Kemp

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from Reisterstown, MD

1 —, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 377.

2 John A. M. Ziegler, Ph.D., D.D, Ziegler Genealogy (Huntington Park, CA: Glenn Printing Co., 1935), Pg 25.