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