An Albert Benedict Wolfe was author of _The Lodging house Problem in 
Boston_ which was volume II of the Harvard Economic Studies series (which 
among other volumes also came later to include Edward Chamberlin's Theory 
of Monopolistic Competition and Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic 
Analysis), my copy was published in 1913 (though with 1906 copyright). I 
cannot confirm that this is the same Albert B. Wolfe as the one at Ohio 
State in the 1930's, though I would think there is a reasonable chance 
this was the case. In the Harvard Economic Studies volume, Wolfe is listed 
as Associate Professor of Economics and Sociology in Oberlin College and 
Sometime Holder of the South End House Fellowship in Harvard University; 
the common Ohio location could suggest further they were one and the same 
person. The preface to the volume indicates that "the material for this 
monograph was collected during a residence of two years as Harvard Fellow 
at the South End House, Boston, 1902-04. In his preface he acknowledges 
help from among others W.Z.Ripley of Harvard and Prof.T.N.Carver editor of 
the series. I also seem to recall recently seeing Wolfe mentioned in a 
paper on settlement social workers--Jane Addams etc. Wolfe concludes the 
preface by saying "If he has blazed a way into a problem which others will 
attach in Boston and elsewhere, with resources more nearly in proportion 
to the task before them, he will deem his labor well spent."

David Mitch