Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....DeWolfe, E. G. 1837 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   E. G. DeWOLFE, editor of the Republican, Findlay, was born in Centreville,
Butler Co., Penn , April 16, 1837. He is the fourth son of Dr. E. Gibbons and
Sarah A. (Harris) DeWolfe, of Pennsylvania, the former of French Huguenot stock,
descended from one of three brothers of that name who fled from persecution in
their native land and settled in New England about the year 1690, after the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes. At the death of his father, in 1846, the
subject of this sketch resided with an uncle, T. K. DeWolfe. in Vernon, Trumbull
Co., Ohio, until 1850, when he entered the office of the Whig, Butler, Penn., as
an apprentice, but completed his trade on the Record, Prospect, Penn. His health
failing he was compelled to relinquish the printing business and settled on a
farm, teaching school in the winter. In 1861 he removed to Ohio and in 1863, in
company with his brother Joseph, purchased the Pike County Republican, which
they published at Waverly for three years, during which time he held the
position of deputy assessor of internal revenue. Refusing to follow Andrew
Johnson into the Democratic party he was removed from office, sold out his paper
and accepted a position as foreman of the Ohio State Journal, at Columbus, Ohio,
where he remained until September of 1868. when in company with Dr. A. P.
Miller, of the Toledo Blade, he purchased the Findlay Jeffersonian, with which
he was connected until May 1, 1876, when he retired to accept the appointment of
postmaster by President Grant, was reappointed by Hayes in 1880 and reappointed
by Arthur in 1884. In 1881 he purchased an interest in the Findlay Republican,
with which he is still connected. In 1855 he married, in Butler County, Penn.,
Miss Emma Flemming, and the union has been blessed with four sons and four
daughters, five of whom are yet living.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Findlay Township and Village




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