Harry Kirke Wolfe was a prominent early American psychologist.
Wolfe earned undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska in 1880, and his PhD under the supervision of Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve...

 and Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physician, psychologist, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology"...

 at the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

 in 1886. Wolfe's dissertation was on tonal memory, and he was only the second American student to earn a degree under Wundt (the first being James McKeen Cattell

James McKeen Cattell

James McKeen Cattell , American psychologist, was the first professor of psychology in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania and long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and publications, most notably the journal Science...

).
He founded the experimental psychology laboratory at the University of Nebraska, where he taught psychology and rose to the rank of Head of the Philosophy Department (under which Psychology was taught).