The Rev. Wilbur Fiske Crafts was born at Fryeburg, Maine, January 12,
1850. His father was the Rev. A. C. Crafts. In 1869 the future author,
lecturer and clergyman graduated from Wesleyan University, Connecticut,
subsequently taking the post-graduate course in Boston University. On
leaving college he became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
holding charges for several years therein and laying the foundation for
the reputation which now attaches to him. Later, however, Mr. Crafts
decided that the tenets of the Congregational denomination were more
to his liking, and accordingly accepted a call to a Congregational
church in Brooklyn. Still later he became a Presbyterian pastor in New
York. Resigning from the ministry, he was made superintendent of the
International Reform Bureau, the object of which is to secure moral
legislation in the United States and Canada with the assistance of
lectures, literature and personal example and influence. He is the
author of many works, the majority of which are of a religious nature,
or deal with social questions.