Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-20


Be better-the ideal American citizen
who has numbered among his personal
friends ten Presidents of the United
States, and whose words of sympathy have
entered many hearts and many homes.
Mr.. Wolf the 18th instant will pass the
seventeen milestone on his journey of life.
In commemoration of that event the friends
of Mr.. Wolf. Gentle and Jew, Protestant
and Catholic democrat and republican.
will assemble at the banquet board at the
Arlington. Monday evening. October %. to
bid him Godspeed and congratulate him
being seventy years young.
Mr.. VOLTS upbuiding from an emigrant
boy in a strange land with only a few
friends and little money is lesson of life,
which. 1t is declared every American lad
should impress upon his memory, 1t Is
said TO form apt illustration of the
strongest principle upon which this great
republic was builded by the forefathers In
their wisdom.
Born in Rhenish Bavaria.
Born In Rhenish Bavaria, October %.
1896 Simon Wolf came to the United States
with his grandparents landing in New
York when he only twelve years OF
age. After brief residence in Cleveland
he located In Urichsville Ohio There he
was employed in the store OF his uncles
Abra ham and Elias Wolf. as salesman and
bookkeeper. His uncles removed to Phila-
delphia In 1885 and Mr.. Wiz became as
sociate In business with Marx Mayer
now his brother-in-law. and Adam Baum
who Is now a resident o: Philadelphia.
Mr.. VOLTS early life was replete with
trying experiences He slept upon the hard
counter of the old-fashioned variety store
and exchange conducted by his uncles in
the provincial Ohio town. That was be-
fore the era OF gas or electric lights Even
lamps were regarded as a luxury. He
spent many long nights In study beneath
the Pickering and uncertain light % an All
cient tallow dip That was the only meth
cd OF schooling open to him until later in
life he attended law school In Cleveland.
The salary received by MIR. Wolf in those
early days was 800 per annum. Upon
reaching manhood he espoused the cause Of
democracy In common with many emil
advocate of slavery and drifted TO Douglass
democracy He was at Charleston and
Baltimore when the party split. and then
became a member of the union party.
Mr.. Wolf married Caroline Hahn OF Suf
field Ohio. in 1857. and the union was
blessed by six children. Two OF the sons
Justice of the supreme court of Porto Rico.
One of his daughters is az drtlst. another
Is Mrs. Myer Cohen. wife of MIR. Wol~ 3
law partner. His other child Is Mrs. Gott-
hold
Mrs Wolf died in 1891, and Mr. Wolf
married in November, 1892. Miss Any
Lichtenstein
His commercial career ended in 1850. when
he began the study of law in the office
OF Judge Joseph c. Hance of New Phlla.
delphia, Ohio. He graduated with honors
from the Cleveland Law School and was
admitted to the bar July 10. 1S6i, at Mount
Vernon. Ohio.
Came Here Forty-four Years Ago.
Simon Wolf came to this city forty-four
years ago and has ever since been regarded
Is the representative Of his People here.
He was appointed United States consul gen.
eral and diplomatic agent to Egypt by
President James A. Garfield shortly before
khA iatter's assassination. He resigned that