Pastor Ludwig Wilhelm (Louis William) Graepp (1834-1910), was born in Brandenburg, Prussia, 
and attended college at Greifswald, Pomerania, near the Baltic Sea. After teaching in the Prussian school system, he migrated to Canada in 1873. He served in the Canada Synod in Ontario until 1881. Upon moving to the United States, he became a member of the Wartburg Synod, serving at St. John’s Lutheran in Springfield, IL, and Wooster, OH. ln 1884, he was installed at St. Petri Lutheran in Toledo. Turmoil at St. Petri led Pastor Graepp to resign from that congregation. In the early months of 1890, Pastor Graepp and those who left with him established Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Toledo. Graepp served Zion until the last Sunday of September, 1896. Thereafter he was in Mayville, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Maryland; and Delaware before serving out his tenure in California. He died of a stroke in 1910.
Wolfram, Scott, E. “Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — Toledo, OH: God’s Grace in the Glass City.” (Senior Church History Paper — Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2024).
“His first wife died in Maryland. In April, 1900 he was married again to Miss Minnie Austin of Toledo, and in June went to Germany. He returned to this country to supply the pulpit of the Roxbury Lutheran church, whence, on the return of the pastor from Europe, he comes to Worcester. Mr. Graepp is a scholarly man and is well known among his countrymen as an author.”
The Worcester [Mass.] Spy, 21 Oct. 1901, p. 1.
Works associated with L. W. Graepp
“Elisabeth von Brandenburg” in Aus Nacht zum Licht. Drei Erzaehlungen (Milw.: Brumder, n.d.)
Aus der Heimath des Rothen Mannes (Milw.: Brumder, 1897).
Bleichgesicht und Rothhaut, oder, Pontiac, der Haeuptling der Ottawas. Historische Original-Erzaehlung aus der Heimath des rothen Mannes (Milw.,: Brumder, n.d.)
Gerald, der Insurgent von Cuba. Historische Erzaehlung aus der letzten Erhebung der Cubaner gegen die Spanier / Von Jerusalem nach Pella: Eine Erzaehlung aus der Zeit vor der Zerstoerung Jerusalems (Milw.: Brumder, n.d.).
Der Brand von Rom, und Durch Kampf zum Frieden. Zwei Erzaehlungen aus den ersten Jahrhunderten der christlichen Kirche (Milw.: Brumder, n.d.).
[The second story is by Oskar Hoecker.]
Bill Cody der Geisterbanner, oder, In den Ruinen der Hacienda “Mission Ranch” in New-Mexiko. Eine aus Thatsachen beruhende Erzahlung aus dem Legen des wilden Westens von Nord-Amerika. Erfurt: Fr. Bartholomaeus, [1890-1899?]
Die Blockhuette im Maumeethale. Original-Erzaehlung nach Quellen zusammengestellt (Reading, Pa.: Pilger, 1894)
Friedel der Seefahrer. Eine Erzaehlung fuer die Jugend. Stuttgart, Loewes Verlag, 1901
Johannes Bugenhagen. Guetersloh, E. Bertelsmann, 1897.
Magister Johannes Brenz, der Reformator Schwabens. Ein Lebensbild aus der Reformationszeit (St. Louis: Concordia, 1894).
Die Rose von Texas. Original-Erzaehlung aus der Heimat des roten Mannes. Erfurt: Fr. Bartholomaeus, 1896.
Wenonah, die Seminolin von Florida. Historische Erzaehlung aus der letzten Erhebung der Seminolen Indianer Florida’s gegen die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika. Erfurt, Bartholomaeus, n.d.
And possibly: Der junge Trommler aus dem Maumeethale. Original-Erzaehlung aus der Geschichte der Stadt Toledo und des amerikanischen Buergerkriegs. Cleveland, O. [Ohio]: Verlagshaus der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft, 1895.
[Author is cited as being Graepp, A. W.].