Hammaker, Wilbur Emery, 1876-1968.

Wilbur E. Hammaker was born February 17, 1876 in Springfield, Ohio. He pastored different churches in Ohio then in 1936 he was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He then served in Nanking, China (1936-1939), in the Denver area (1939), and other assignments 1940 to 1948 when he retired. Bishop Hammaker was a leader within the church's temperance movement, serving as president of the Methodist Church Board of Temperance (1944-1948); then vice president in charge of counseling and public relations (1948-1952). He also served as president of the National Temperance and Prohibition Council (1948-1958). He died August 11, 1968.

From the guide to the Wilbur Emery Hammaker papers, 1947-1965, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)