2 June 2014

Charles Louis Wellemeyer

1870 — 1946

Biographical Material

Source: Warrenton Banner (Warrenton, Missouri); 7 July 1905; volume 40, number 46; page 1, column 3 and page 1, column 5. Accessed in May 2014 from the web site of the State Historical Society of Missouri.

The "C. W. C." mentioned in the second article refers to Central Wesleyan College, an educational institution associated with the Methodist Church and located at Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri. A very brief biographical sketch of Professor Wellemeyer appears below, rendered in the age-old humor of college seniors.

The first article mentions by name two of Charles Wellemeyer's colleagues from C. W. C. Dr. George B. Addicks had graduated from Central Wesleyan College in 1874 and after further education and teaching positions at Iowa Wesleyan University and the German College at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, he was appointed Niedringhaus Professor of Practical Theology and Philosophy at Central Wesleyan College in 1899 or 1890 (depending on the source). He served as president of the college from 1895 until his death early in 1910.

Dr. Albert William Ebeling, who opened the evening's festivities with a speech (a very "faculty" beginning to a night of fun), was a science professor at Central Wesleyan College. He was the medical doctor who attended Dr. Addicks in the last month of his life and signed the death certificate.


Charles Louis Wellemeyer, A. B., single, was born in a farmhouse near Wapello, Iowa in the latter half of the nineteenth century.  His craving for knowledge was shown when at the age of four years, he attended the "Deestrickt" School, where his big brother wielded the "big stick."  Later his parents removed to Garner, Iowa, where he did those things boys are wont to do and completed the public school at 16 years of age.  He taught one year, graduated in an academy at Garner, and 1894 completed the classical course at C. W. C.  Then for four years he was professor of Latin, Greek and Mathematics at Charles City College, Charles City, Iowa, for two years did post-graduate work at the University of Chicago, and in 1900 he was chosen professor of Latin and Greek at C. W. C.  This position he has satisfactorily filled since then, spending the present year on leave of absence, to rest his overstrained eyes, in Dixie Land, Texas.

Prof. Wellemeyer is a good thinker and an earnest teacher, always trying to have his pupils make progress.  He avers that it is not entirely his own fault that he is not married, so we shall not judge him too harshly, for we know him to be quite a ladies' man.

Source: The Pulse, 1906, Arthur F. Schoenig, editor in chief, (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College; printed by Banner Publishing Company, 1906), page [unnumbered; 14?].

Access to The Pulse courtesy of Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri).

This portrait and biographical sketch appeared in 1906 in The Pulse, published for the senior class of Central Wesleyan College (the C. W. C. referred to here). Charles had been a professor of Latin and Greek at the college since 1900. It appears he held this position until about 1922 or 1923.


Source: The Pulse, 1908, Phil H. Walter, editor in chief, (Warrenton, Missouri: the Senior Class of Central Wesleyan College; printed by Banner Publishing Company, 1908), page [unnumbered; 46?].

Access to The Pulse courtesy of Central Wesleyan College Archives Digital Collection, Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri).


Source: Warrenton Banner (Warrenton, Missouri); Friday, 24 August 1917; volume 53, number 2; page 1, column 3. Accessed in May 2014 from the web site of the State Historical Society of Missouri.

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