The Reverend Frank E. Wittkamp of the 19th Street ME Church

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Title

The Reverend Frank E. Wittkamp of the 19th Street ME Church

Subject

WHC88378

Description

Sepia toned photograph of The Reverend Frank E. Wittkamp (born c. 1886 in Pennsylvania), a young and popular pastor to the West 19th St. M.E. Church, standing in front of the church. Wittkamp left in 1915 and went to Stone Ridge Church in NY (now the Rondout Valley Methodist Church) through 1916. He enlisted (or was drafted) as a chaplain in Aug. of 1917 as a member of the 113th Engineers. Lieutenant Chaplain Francis E. Wittkamp died at Chaumont Hospital in France in 1918. From the collection of Mark Wright.

Date

1912

Type

OT

Identifier

WHC88378

Coverage

West 19th Street,Weehawken, NJ [40.759949,-74.03061129999999]

Geolocation

Citation

“The Reverend Frank E. Wittkamp of the 19th Street ME Church,” The Weehawken Time Machine, accessed April 20, 2024, https://weehawkentimemachine.omeka.net/items/show/3321.