. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . ormed Church, of which both he andhis wife are members. REPRESENTATIVE MEN. 327 REV. GEORGE WOLFF, Wolff, son of Henry and Sarah Wolff, wasborn Jan. 11, 1822, in Dauphin Co., Pa. His grand-father, Conrad Wolff, of German descent, and a na-tive of Dauphin County, was a farmer by married Elizabeth Ervin, of the same county, andthey had three sons,—Henry, John, and Wolff, born April 3, 1793, near Harrisburg;died April 5, 1861; married Sarah
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . ormed Church, of which both he andhis wife are members. REPRESENTATIVE MEN. 327 REV. GEORGE WOLFF, Wolff, son of Henry and Sarah Wolff, wasborn Jan. 11, 1822, in Dauphin Co., Pa. His grand-father, Conrad Wolff, of German descent, and a na-tive of Dauphin County, was a farmer by married Elizabeth Ervin, of the same county, andthey had three sons,—Henry, John, and Wolff, born April 3, 1793, near Harrisburg;died April 5, 1861; married Sarah Wolff, daughter of in the fall of the same year by the Classi9 of West-moreland. His first charge was at Curllsville, ClarionCo., Pa., where he remained five years, and duringwhich period he organized six congregations. Hisnext charge was in Northumberland County, wherehe passed seven years of ministerial labor, when heaccepted a call to the Myerstown (German) ReformedChurch, and since the year 1861 been zealously en-gaged in pastoral duty there. The church has beenvery prosperous under his ministry. He has been. George and Hannah Wolff, born Jan. 9, 1801, diedJan. 4, 1859, and their children were George, Marga-ret, Hannah, David, Joseph, Alexander, Jacob, Eliz-abeth, and Sarah. George Wolff, the eldest, passedhis childhood in Cumberland County, and his youthin Adams County, Pa. At the age of eighteen hebegan his collegiate preparatory studies and enteredMarshall College, Mercersburg, where he graduatedin 1847. He completed his theological studies in1848, and was licensed and ordained to the ministry largely instrumental in the establishment of Palati-nate College, at Myerstown, of which he is a is also a trustee of Ursinus College, MontgomeryCo., Pa., and secretary of the Board of Foreign Mis-sions of the Reformed Church. Dr. Wolff marriedNov. 5, 1851, Hannah D. Mohney, daughter of PhilipMohney, of Curllsville, Pa., and their children areEmma and David U., the la
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