Delavan Dewolf (1845-1927) was born in Frankfort, New York, and died in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated with BA and MA degrees from Chicago University in 1870 and from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1873. He was ordained in 1874. He briefly headed a Baptist commission in Brooklyn, New York, before settling in Bristol, Connecticut, where he served as pastor of the Baptist church for twelve years. From 1886 to 1890 he was the pastor of the Salem, New Jersey, Baptist church. He went on to serve as secretary and then superintendent of missions of the New Jersey Baptist convention. He married Amelia B. Dewolf (b. Churchill) in Newark in 1875, and they settled in Newark in 1891. In 1886 Dewolf learned about Christian Science from M. Anna Osgood, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, and thereafter he wrote a letter to Eddy inquiring about possible terms for himself and his wife to study Christian Science with her, although the record does not reflect that they subsequently did so.

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