Biography of Louis Wolf, Clay Co, AR

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From: 
The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of N. E. Ark.
Biographical Information.

Louis M. Wolf, of the firm of Long & Wolf, merchants, of Greenway, Clay County.
Ark., was born in the city of St. Louis October 12, 1863, and is a son of
Raphael Wolf, who was born and reared in Germany. After reaching manhood he
emigrated to the United States, and was married, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss
Minnie Schoen, also a native of Germany. He was a stock dealer, trader and
merchant in St. Louis until his death, in 1871. Louis M. Wolf remained in St.
Louis until he was eight years of age, and was then sent to Cleveland, Ohio, and
was educated in a Jewish college of that city. After completing his studies, at
the end of seven years, he returned to St. Louis and was engaged in clerking
there for a short time, going thence to Topeka, Kas., and later to Missouri.
After clerking in Malden, Mo., for J. S. Levi & Co., for a number of years, he,
in April, 1887, came to Arkansas and located at Greenway, where he bought
property and built a business house, and in connection with Louis Long, of St.
Louis, Mo., conducts a general mercantile establishment, their stock of goods
being large and well selected, and their annual sales amounting to $2,500. Mr.
Wolf is an enterprising young business man, and is doing a prosperous business.
He is also a member of the K. of P., and is connected with the Hebrew Synagogue.
His mother is residing with and keeping house for him.