Biographical Sketch of August Wolf, Johnson County, Missouri, Madison Township. >From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
August Wolf, capable and enterprising farmer of Madison township, was born on the farm where he is now residing, August 28, 1879, a son of Ernest and Anna (Lang) Wolf both of whom were born in Germany. Ernest Wolf was born in 1830, was reared to young manhood in Germany and served in the Prussian army as required by the exacting military laws of his native country. He learned the trade of millwright. Shortly after he had served his term in the army he left Germany and came to America to find the freedom which had been denied him in his native land. The enforced years of military training, the submission to the Prussian yoke of militarism, which even then was beginning to dominate Germany and render her people mere automatons, so ground into his soul that Ernest Wolf was imbued with a hatred of Prussianism and longed, while undergoing military service, to get away from it all to a land which was not infested with arbitrary, arrogantly brutal officers. This hatred of all things Prussian never left this independent, sturdy German-born America and he never ceased to avow his hatred of the sys- tem which had taken toll of his young life. He first settled in St. Louis, Missouri and was employed as a car repairer at a wage of ninety dollars per month. During the Civil War, he entered the Union service as a member of the Home Guards and thus showed his loyalty and love for his adopted country. Ernest Wolf was thrifty and was ever looking forward to the time when he could own a piece of land which would be all his own. He saved his earnings as he was able and after the war was ended he came to Johnson county. After a residence in Holden of but a few years, he purchased a farm near the city and during the remaining years of his life developed his fine farm to the utmost. Mr. Wolf was very successful as a farmer and stockman and became fairly well to do. He was a man of good habits, very industrious, and was blessed with excellent health up to the time of his illness which culminated in his death on April 12, 1915 at the age of eighty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wolf were parents of these children besides the subject of this review: Mrs. Johanna Zinn, Topeka, Kansas; Mrs. Fredericka Sheer, deceased; Fred, died in infancy; Ernest, Jr., Holden, Missouri; Louis (Father of Ida Mae Wolf Russell, Grandfather of Jane Lou Russell Uhler born in Warrensburg, and Great Grandfather of Bruce and Jill Uhler born in Warrensburg, Russ and Judy Johnson born in Sedalia), in the employ of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company; Mrs. Bertha Coy, Madison township; Henry, Kansas City; Edward, Gary, Nebraska; Mrs. Lizzie Donelson; Annie, at home; Laura; and Charley, who was killed in a wreck on the Missouri Pacific railroad. Ernest Wolf was born in Hanover, Germany, February 11, 1830. He died at his home April 12, 1915, at 2 p.m. He came to St. Louis in 1855, went to work for the Missouri Pacific Railway Company and continued in its service until 1855. He moved to Holden in 1871 and bought the farm on which he lived since, one mile west of Holden. He is mourned by his wife, five sons, and five daughters. The remains were temporarily deposited in the Steele vault. Owing to the dangerous illness of his wife and daughter, it was thought best to defer any funeral services at this time. Mr. Wolf was in his eighty-sixth year and up to the last few weeks was able to be up and about the house. He bought a very impoverished piece of land in 1871 and developed it into one of the best dairy farms in the county. He stocked his farm with Holstein cattle and made a success. He was an energetic, good man, a good friend and neighbor. Like a shock of grain, fully ripe, he is garnered into the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. August Wolf was reared to maturity on the home place near Holden and is farming 181 acres of fine land and operating a dairy in connection. In addition to general farming and dairying, he raises a considerable number of hogs each year. Mr. Wolf is following in his father's footsteps as a tiller of the soil and is making a decided success of his life work. He is a member and a deacon of the Baptist church and is fraternally affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Daughters of Rebekah. ======================
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