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Wolff, Bernard C. (1795-1870)
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Aler's History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia
by F. Vernon Aler, 1888
Printed for the Author by 
The Mail Publishing Company, Hagerstown, MD.

CHAPTER VIII.
Historical Pen Sketches of the Early Residents of Berkeley County
by the late Hon. Chas. James Faulkner.

Pages 94-96, REV. BERNARD C. WOLFF, D. D. 

Was born in Martinsburg, Berkeley County about the year 1795. He
was the son of George Wolff, Esq., one of our most conscientious
and respectable magistrates. When the writer of this sketch first
became acquainted with the son in 1822, he was working at his trade
of saddler in Martinsburg, then in the 2Sth year of his age. His
intelligence, extensive reading and literary attainments, were the
subject of general remark; while his frank and fascinating manners,
social temperament public and unaffected piety, made him a
universal favorite. Every enterprise looking to the educational
moral and religious interests of this community found in him an
ardent advocate and energetic supporter. It was therefore not a
matter of surprise when it became known, that he, then in the 36th
year of his age, decided to devote himself to the office of the
holy ministry. — After several years of preparatory study in the
theological seminary of the German Reformed Church at York, Pa., he
received a call to the reformed Church at Easton, in that State. In
this field he labored for nine years, and in the spring of 1845 was
called to take charge of the Third Reformed Church in Baltimore. A
vacancy occurring in the theological seminary at Mercersburg, he
was elected to fill the vacant position, and in 1854 entered upon
his duties as professor of dogmatic and pastoral theology. Owing to
declining health, he resigned his professorship in 1864, and
removed to Lancaster city. — Here he devoted much attention to the
interests of Franklin and Marshall College. About two years before
he died, he was attacked with paralysis and his active labor on
earth ceased. Gradually failing in his physical strength, but with
his mental powers still active, he calmly and peacefully departed
this life on the 31st day of October, 1870, while the last rays of
an autumn sun was illuminating the western sky with a flood of
glory.

Bernard C. Wolff was no ordinary man. He was the model of a
christian gentleman, always kind and courteous, yet firm and
decided in his principles, and untiring in his work. His views of
the ministry were of the most exalted character, and his conduct
and conversations in the life fully corresponded with his
conceptions of its divine mission on earth.

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