Amos Wilder

Amos Niven Wilder (September 18, 1895 – May 1, 1993) was an American poet, minister, and theology professor.

He studied for two years at Oberlin College (1913–1915), but volunteered in the Ambulance Field Service; he was awarded the Croix de Guerre.

In college he was an inter-collegiate doubles champion tennis player, and he played at Wimbledon in 1922, with his partner Lee Wiley.

[2] He served as secretary to Albert Schweitzer lecturing at Oxford University,[3][4] where he was studying at Mansfield College (1921–1923).

Wilder was ordained in 1926 and served in a Congregational church in North Conway, New Hampshire.