WOLFE, John David, merchant, born in New York city, 24 July, 1792; died there, 17 May, 1872. He was the son of David Wolfe (1758-1836), who served during the Revolutionary war as captain in a militia company and later as assistant quartermaster under Colonel Timothy Picketing with the army under General Washington. The boy was educated for a commercial life, and became a successful hardware-merchant and the head of the firm of Wolfe and Bishop. He gave largely to benevolent objects, especially for the relief of orphans, aged persons, and prisoners, and for the promotion of religion and education under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal church. For some time he was a vestryman of Trinity, and at the time of his death was senior warden of Grace church. He founded a high-school for girls, known as " Wolfe hall," at Denver, Colorado, and a diocesan school for girls at Topeka, Kansas, gave the building for the theological seminary connected with Kenyon college, and a fund for the College of the Sisters of Bethany, at Topeka, Kansas, built homes for crippled and destitute children and for impoverished Christian men, in Suffolk county, New York, and, with Mrs. Peter Cooper, established the Sheltering Arms charity in New York city. Mr. Wolfe was associated in the organization of St. Johnland, was its first president, and a liberal contributor to its support. He was also president of the Working-womens' protective union, vice-president of the society of the New York hospital, also an active officer in other charitable organizations, and president of the American museum of natural history. Mr. Wolfe prepared a "Mission Service." consisting of suitable portions of the "Book of Common Prayer," which he had translated into German, Spanish, and French, and in all circulated more than 130,000 copies. See "A Memorial of John David Wolfe," by Evert A. Duyckinck (New York, 1872). His wife was Dorothea Ann, a daughter of Peter Lorillard.--Their daughter, Catharine Lorillard, philanthropist, born in New York city, 28 March, 1828; died there, 4 April, 1887, inherited from her father's and grandfather's estates a well-in-vested fortune of about $10,000,000, and expended at first $100,000, and, as her income increased, as much as 8250,000, each year for benevolent purposes. She aided the charities that " her father established, carried out his design in giving a site for the home for the Home for incurables at Fordham, New York, gave about $100,000 to Union college, $30,000 to St. Luke's hospital, New York city, and $65,000 to St. Johnland on Long Island; largely aided in building the American chapel at Rome, and contributed a large sum to the one in Paris; 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 It. 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 window 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 Ludwig Knaus's " Holy Family" and Gabriel Max's " The Last Greeting" are the best known. In addition to her city house she owned a villa at Newport, Rhode Island, that was elegantly furnished, and other country houses. Miss Wolfe left her valuable collection of modern paintings to the Metropolitan museum of art, together with $200,000 for its preservation and enlargement.