BIOGRAPHIES: James E. DeWOLF, Clinton Township, Barron County, WI

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James E. De Wolf, now deceased was a substantial citizen for some years of
Clinton Township, this county. He served as a chairman of his school board,
and did other things to assist in the advancement of his neighborhood. He
was a good neighbor and a kind and loving father and greatly revered by all
with whom he came in contact. Mr. De Wolf was born Feb. 8, 1844, in Canada,
son of Elisha and Margaret (Lovelass) De Wolf. He was educated in Canada
and worked there for some years, first in straw shops and then in a hat
factory. He came to the United States in 1876 and located in Rice County,
Minnesota, where he farmed for some years. In 1898 he came to Wisconsin and
settled in Clinton Township, this county, where he purchased 240 acres,
cleared a part of it, and carried on general farming until his death Sept.
8, 1908. After his death his widow carried on the farm for eight years with
the assistance of her sons, and then sold it and purchased a home on La
Salle street, Barron, where she now resides. Mr. De Wolf was married Feb.
15, 1875, to Mrs. Susan Lamb, who was born in Canada Aug. 24, 1848,
daughter of George and Phoebe (Lamb) McBurnie. Her first husband, Mr. Lamb,
was no relation to her mother, though bearing the same family name. Mr. and
Mrs. De Wolf are the parents of four children: Bessie, born July 2, 1877,
who is now Mrs. Albin Anderson of Northfield, Minn.; Arthur, born March 25,
1878, who resides in Barron; Harry, born March 25, 1880, who is on the farm
in Clinton township, and Emma, born Jan. 12, 1883, who is the wife of
Patrick Malone of Clinton Township.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pp. 119-120.