Frederick K. Wentz followed in his father’s footsteps as a church historian, seminary administrator, and churchman. A graduate of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg Seminary, and Yale University, began his ministry as a pastor and mission organizer in Culver City, California, before serving as pastor to Lutheran students at Yale University. He taught church history at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary and Gettysburg Seminary, leaving in 1966 to become president of Hamma School of Theology in Springfield, Ohio.
Wentz wrote about a dozen books on modern church history, lay ministry, and ethics. His last book, completed shortly before his death, was a biography of his father. He made the motion from the floor of the convention of the Lutheran Church in America which allowed for the ordination of women in that body.