He was born as Walter Yeeling Wentz in Trenton, New Jersey, and as a teenager read Madame Blavatsky's "Isis Unveiled" and "The Secret Doctrine" and became interested in the teachings of Theosophy.
He was born as Walter Yeeling Wentz in Trenton, New Jersey in 1878. As a teenager he read Madame Blavatsky's "Isis Unveiled" and "The Secret Doctrine" and became interested in the teachings of Theosophy.