The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . dy of Eng-lish descent, and daughter of William Elliott, ofEngland. Their union has been blessed with fivechildren, of whom three are now living. HON. WILLIAM HENRY WOLF, MILWAUKEE. THERE is a famous speech recorded of an oldNorseman, thoroughly characteristic of theTeuton : I believe neither in idols nor demons,said he, but I put my sole trust in my own strengthof body and soul. The ancient crest with themotto of I will find a way or make one, was anexpression of the same sturdy ind
The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . dy of Eng-lish descent, and daughter of William Elliott, ofEngland. Their union has been blessed with fivechildren, of whom three are now living. HON. WILLIAM HENRY WOLF, MILWAUKEE. THERE is a famous speech recorded of an oldNorseman, thoroughly characteristic of theTeuton : I believe neither in idols nor demons,said he, but I put my sole trust in my own strengthof body and soul. The ancient crest with themotto of I will find a way or make one, was anexpression of the same sturdy independence andpractical materialism which to this day distinguishesthe descendants of the Northmen. Ihese two (|uo- tations are peculiarly adapted to the career of thesubject of our biography. He was born on the 7th of .\ugust, 1828, at AVen-delsheim, in Germany, about twenty-one miles fromMainz on the Rhine. His parents, John and Char-lotte Blumenfeldt Wolf, immigrated to the city ofNew York in 1836, where they remained about threeyears and then settled on a farm in Sullivan countyin the State of New
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