Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe was an American physician and author from New Jersey. Reliable sources in this search disagree about his birth year, with some library records listing 1847 while a detailed 1914 county history gives July 5, 1843, in Roxbury, New Jersey; both agree that he died in 1915.

He studied medicine at Columbia and earned his M.D. in 1868. A New Jersey biographical source says he began medical training during the Civil War in the Army of the Potomac, later practiced in Jersey City, and eventually gave up an active medical career because of poor health.

Wolfe is best remembered for books that explored the homes, landscapes, and personal worlds of major writers. Columbia's archival description notes that he collected letters and manuscripts and drew on them for works including Literary Shrines of American Authors, A Literary Pilgrimage Among Haunts of British Authors, Literary Haunts and Homes, and Literary Rambles at Home and Abroad. The same New Jersey source also describes his interest in ethnology and in the Lenape people of New Jersey, showing how wide-ranging his curiosity was.