BIO:  Jacob WOLF, Reading Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 505

JACOB WOLF, merchant, Hampton, was born in Adams County, Penn., June 4, 1826, 
and is a son of James and Polly (Little) Wolf, natives of Pennsylvania.  His 
grandparents were also natives of Pennsylvania, but his great grandfather was 
born in Germany.  James Wolf, in early life, was engaged at carriage-making, but 
later followed the trade of chair-maker, and died in Adams County March 16, 
1855, and was buried in Hampton Cemetery.  Our subject was reared near New 
Chester, where he learned the chair-maker’s trade, which he followed for thirty 
years at different points.  In 1858 he entered mercantile business at Hampton, 
which he continued until 1865, when he moved to Hollinstown, Cumberland County, 
and engaged in the same business for four years, working one year at his trade.  
In 1869 he moved to Hunterstown, where he bought a farm of eighty acres, which 
he rented out, working at his trade for twelve years.  In 1880 he sold his farm, 
moved back to Hampton, and again entered mercantile business, which he has since 
followed.  He was married January 6, 1848, to Mary A., daughter of Griffith and 
Anna E. Conner, and to this union ten children were born, nine of whom are 
living:  James E. (an Evangelical missionary in the Indian Territory), Martha 
A., Susan A., Rosa A., Sarah E., Jacob O., Mary A., George B. M. and Effie; the 
deceased was an infant son.  Mr. and Mrs. Wolf are members of the Methodist 
Church.  He has served as township clerk.