BIO:  Frederick W. WOLFF, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 72

FREDERICK W. WOLFF, a musician of some note and a resident of Baltimore, Md., 
was born in Hanover, Penn., November 17, 1858, and is the only son of Phillip C. 
and Susanna (Snyder) Wolff, of York County.  The father, a German by birth, 
engaged in the manufacture of buckskin gloves at Hanover about 1833, and 
continued the same until his death in 1883.  The mother, of English descent, is 
also a resident of Baltimore.  Frederick W. began the study of music, when quite 
young, at Hanover, where he remained until twelve years of age, when he moved 
with his parents to Baltimore, and there received a collegiate education.  
Desiring to perfect himself in the study of music, he went to Leipzig, Germany, 
where he took a three years’ course in the Conservatory of Music, and is an 
alumnus of that institution.  Besides being a very successful teacher of music 
he is also dealing extensively in real estate in Hanover, Penn.