Frederick Wedge
Deceased Person
1880 – 1953
Who was Frederick Wedge?
Frederick Wedge was an American boxer who fought over 70 professional bouts as "Kid" Wedge; an ordained clergyman, who pastored churches in Nebraska, Wisconsin, and California for the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Congregational denominations; a Chautauqua lecturer; an author of several books, including The Fighting Parson of Barbary Coast; and an educator, who taught at Pasadena College, and high schools in Arizona and California, whose admission into the Graduate School of Education of Harvard University in January 1922, and his January 1929 second marriage were both a national cause célèbre in the USA.
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- Born
- Jul 31, 1880
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Columbia University
- Harvard University
- University of Arizona
- Rhinelander High School
- Died
- Mar 3, 1953
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on July 23, 2013
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