Wolf, Samuel

WOLF, DEYO, EVANS, MULNIX

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1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

DEEP RIVER TOWNSHIP

Page 750-51

WOLF, SAMUEL--Section 22, P.O. Deep River. Was born April 4, 1828, in York county, Pennsylvania, where he was raised on a farm. When nearly eight years of age his father moved to Huntingdon county, where his education was finished. His father was a shoemaker, and at seventeen Samuel commenced learning that trade, after completing which he went to Ogle county, Illinois in the spring of 1847, where he plied his trade (in Buffalo and Dixon) for the next five or six years. Shortly after marrying, he commenced farming, at which he continued but three years, when he went to Polo, where, with his brother, Henry, he was established in the shoe business until the spring of 1867, when he immigrated to this county, and in the following fall he bought and moved to his present place. Mr. Wolf married, July 30, 1853, Ellen Deyo, who was born in Delaware county, New York, March 7, 1831. Their children are: George (born March 24, 1854; died December 6, 1854), Henry Martin (born January 28, 1856; married, December 19, 1878, Lida Evans), Alexander (born March 14, 1857; married, July 3, 1879, Phebe Mulnix), Sarah Elizabeth (born January 11, 1859; died about March, 1860), Laura Ellen (born September 4, 1860), Benjamin (born April 13, 1862), Emeline (born September 1, 1863), Angeline (born August 19, 1865) and Franklin (born May 11, 1869; died in infancy). Mr. Wolf owns eighty-two and one-half acres of good farming land, in fine condition, well stocked, and free from debt. He was road supervisor during 1877, and is at present serving as school director.