WOLF, John, b 1827; 1905 Bio, Mesa County, Colorado

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Donated August 2001

Transcribed by Judy Crook <jlcrook@rof.net> from the book:

Progressive Men of Western Colorado 

Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill.



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John Wolf

	John Wolf, of Mesa county, Colorado, a prosperous and successful farmer living

near the village of Snipes, who has been a resident of the state for thirty-one

years and of the county in which he now resides for ten years of that time, was

born in Fayette county, Ohio, in 1827, and is the son of Absalom and Rebecca

(Ireland) Wolf, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Maryland, where

her family had lived from colonial times.  When their son John, who was the

first born of their six children, was about five years old, the family moved to

Indiana and engaged in farming, the occupation in which the father had been

engaged in his former home.  He died in Indiana when he was about forty years of

age.  The mother lived until about 1880, when she passed away at the age of

eighty years.  John grew to manhood and was educated in Indiana, remaining with

his mother until he was twenty-one, then starting out in life for himself as a

farmer, the pursuit to which he had been bred, and following this until the

beginning of the Civil war.  He then enlisted in the Union army as a member of

the Ninth Indiana Infantry, Company G,  for a term of three years.  He saw

active service during most of this term and at its end, having escaped unhurt

amid the deluge of death in which he was often placed, he obeyed the last call

for volunteers and again enlisted, this time in Company H, One Hundred and

Fifty-first Indiana Infantry, his term of service being for the war, as it was

manifest it could not last a great while longer.  After the close of the awful

conflict, he took up his residence in Nebraska, and during the next seven years

was one of the progressive farmers of that state.  He then came to Colorado, and

for fifteen years was engaged in the same pursuit in Larimer county, this state. 

From Larimer he moved to Mesa county in 1894 and located where he now lives,

where he has since resided.  He was married in 1854 to Miss Maria King, and they

have had eleven children, Hannah, Jackson, Marian, Lizzie, Myrtle, Sadie, Ida,

Henry (deceased at the age of two years), Ernest and Emory.





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