Biography of James F. Wolfe, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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James F. Wolfe, Production Credit Manager of Planters Bank & Trust Co. and a
cotton merchant, has been a man of conscientious, dependable and efficient
service ever since he embarked into the business world over half a century ago
in Forrest City. Mr. Wolfe was born at the family homestead on Crowley's Ridge
east of the city on May 14, 1881, the son of the late J. F. and Fannie (Miller)
Wolfe. Their home was described in the 1905 Forrest City Times Souvenir as
perhaps the "most beautiful" in Forrest City, its large frontage being dotted
with magnificent forest trees and a beautiful lawn. After graduation from the
old Crowley Ridge Institute, Mr. Wolfe took a job as office manager, and became
Superintendent of the Forrest City Gin Co., better known as the "Big Red Gin",
and now The Service Company. He served for 16 years, while operating as a "farm
rider" for the Fussell-Graham-Alderson between ginning seasons. Having past his
72 and milestone of an eventful life, he can reminisce of the time he
represented and English Cotton firm out of Memphis and later the New Burger
Cotton Co., and in 1933 started his own business which he still operates in
"Cotton Alley. " In 1934 he helped organize and served as the first Sect.
/Treas. of the Forrest City Production Credit Association. He resigned in 1940
to spend full time in the cotton business, but a year later, 1941 became
associated with Planters as part-time Production Credit Manager. He has been a
Director of Planters since 1943, and from 1923 to 1937 served as Director of the
National Bank of Eastern Arkansas.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas