August Wolf, farmer, P. O. Altamont, was born in Prussia, Germany, September 10, 1823, to Frederick and Charlotte (Walk) Wolf, both natives of Prussia, Germany. [Frederick] died in 1829, aged thirty-three years, was a tailor by trade. [Charlotte] is now residing in Mound Township, enjoying good health in her eighty-third year. They were married in Germany, and had four children, subject the oldest child. He was educated from the common schools of Germany; was brought to America by his parents in a sailing vessel from Hamburg, landing in New York January 3, 1844, and went to Buffalo, N.Y., and worked at the trade of a tailor, which he had learned in the old country. In 1849, he removed to the country, and has run a general merchandise store for about fifteen years. In 1865, he came to Illinois and settled on his present farm. He bought 120 acres in 1860. In New York, in 1840, he married Henrietta Hœpfner, a native of Prussia, Germany. She is the mother of four children — George F. A. (a Lutheran preacher in La Grange, Mississippi), Augusta (wife of Julius Oelker, farmer in township), August (at home), Bertha (single). The family are members of the Lutheran Church. Held the office of Justice of the Peace for seven years; Commissioner for several years; Supervisor for one year.
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