W. T. Elmore

labeled "W. T. Elmore, '96 University of Nebraska"
Photo, date unknown. Location: Lincoln, Nebraska

Presumed to be
Wilber T. Elmore
Birth 29 Jul 1871St Charles, Illinois
Residence: Lincoln, Nebraska
(May 1923 US Passport application)



Relationship to Warren family unknown. Likely a friend of George Frederick Warren at the University of Nebraska.


W.T. (Wilber Theodore) Elmore is the author of a book published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1915:

Dravidian gods in modern Hinduism;: A study of the local and village deitites of southern India (University studies, pub. by the University of Nebraska)


The following biography of Robert Elmore gives more information on W. T. Elmore:

"Robert Hall Elmore was born on January 2, 1913 in Ramaputnam, India, where his parents, Dr. Wilber Elmore and Maude Elmore, served as American Baptist missionaries. The family, including an older sister Rachel, returned to the United States in 1915. They settled in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1918...

In 1925 the family moved to Wayne, Pennsylvania, as Dr. Wilber Elmore had accepted the invitation to teach church history and missions at the newly formed Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia."

This fits with the list of arriving passengers in September 1914

Name: Wilber T Elmore
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1871
Port of Departure: Hong Kong
Departure Date: 18 Aug 1914
Ship: Manchuria
Port of Arrival: Honolulu, Hawaii
Arrival Date: 10 Sep 1914