- Ernest Lynn Waldorf
Ernest Lynn Waldorf (
14 May 1876 –27 July ,1943 ) was an AmericanBishop of theMethodist Episcopal Church , elected in 1920.He was born on a farm in the South Valley,
Otsego County, New York . The "Waldruff" family originally came fromHolland . Waldorf united with the Central New YorkAnnual Conference of the M.E. Church in 1900. Prior to his election to theEpiscopacy , Waldorf served as aPastor , and as aChaplain in the 74th Regt. of the National Guard inBuffalo, New York , 1911-15.His son was football coach
Pappy Waldorf .While a bishop in
Kansas City, Missouri in the 1920s he championed a proposed Lincoln and Lee University that would be built on the battlefield of theBattle of Westport (biggest battle west of theMississippi River ). The university would be named forAbraham Lincoln andRobert E. Lee and be built around a proposed national memorial to fallen Civil War soldiers. The school would eventually form the basis of what is theUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City (and is not affiliated with the church).He died after a few months illness, on
27 July ,1943 in the Noble Foundation Hospital,Alexandria Bay, New York . He was buried in Morningside (cemetery?) inSyracuse, New York .elected Writings
*"Sermons, Addresses and Radio Talks," typed mss., in the Methodist Bishops' Collection at Perkins School of Theology,
Southern Methodist University .
*Address: "Riches," Book of the Sesqui-Centennial of American Methodism, 1934.
*The Use of Hardship, Sermons By the Sea, 1939.References
*Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.
ee also
*
List of Bishops of the United Methodist Church
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