Biography of Allen Wolf, pages 971/972/973. History of DeKalb County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914. The following is a brief review of the life of one who, by close attention to business, has achieved success in the world’s affairs and has risen to an honorable position among the enterprising men of the county with which his interests are identified. It is a plain record, rendered remarkable by no strange and mysterious adventure, no wonderful and lucky accident and no tragic situation. Mr. Wolf is one of those estimable characters whose integrity and strong personality must force them into an admirable notoriety, which their modesty never seed, who command the respect of their contemporaries and their posterity and leave the impress of their individuality upon the age in which they live. Allen Wolf was born August 15, 1860, on the paternal homestead in Franklin township, and is the son of Daniel and Mary (Walter) Wolf. The father was born November 23, 1808, in Columbiana county, Ohio, and died December 20, 1883. The mother was born January 30, 1820, in Union county, Pennsylvania, and died January 17, 1902. These parents came from Ashland county, Ohio, to Indiana, in the year 1850, being among the every earliest settlers. The subject’s parents settled in Franklin township, near Franklin Center, at which time they were in very moderate financial circumstances, having but little ready money. Here the subject’s father cleared his homestead entirely by his own efforts. To the subject’s parents were born eight children, namely: Mrs. Melinda Myers, of Waterloo; Mrs. Amanda Myers, of Goshen, deceased; Andrew, also deceased; Mrs. Lucinda Hendricks, of White Pigeon, Michigan; Mrs. Matilda Rohrbaugh, of near Butler; Samuel, Allen and William, of Franklin township. The subject was reared under the paternal roof and received his education, which is somewhat limited, at the public schools of Franklin Center. He has spent practically his entire life in Franklin township, having remained at home until twenty-four years of age. Soon after his marriage Mr. Wolf moved onto his father-in- law’s farm, near his present location, but nine years later moved to Auburn, where, during the following five years, he was employed by the Wabash railroad. At the end of that time he came to his present fine farm, which is located in Franklin township, and to which he has given his undivided attention since. He has made many substantial improvements, having rebuilt the comfortable and attractive residence, erecting the large and commodious barn and other necessary outbuildings. The present appearance of the place reflects great credit on the owner. On January 17, 1884, Mr. Wolf married Phila Clark, who was born October 16, 1863, in Franklin township, DeKalb county, and whom he had known from childhood. She is the youngest daughter of John N. and Mary Magdalena (Hammond) Clark, who came to DeKalb county in 1842 from Stark county, Ohio, where the mother was born September 14, 1822. Her father, who was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1822, is of Scotch-Irish descent, his father having crossed the Atlantic ocean at the early age of two years. Mr. Clark entered eighty acres of land in Franklin township, which at that time was densely covered with native forest trees. For this land he paid the sum of one dollar and a quarter per acre and this money he borrowed of old “Uncle Jimmy” Matson, one of the earliest settlers of the community and well know throughout this part of the state for this charitable work among the new settlers. Mr. Clark, by the help of his noble wife, cleared their land and at the time of their death were the possessors of two hundred acres of fine farming land. They were the parents of the following children besides Mrs. Wolf. Mrs. Susan VanWagner, Mrs. Joan Gurtner, Mrs. Fietta Clark, Phiana and Irene. The father died May 25, 1905, and the mother on December 1, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Wolf have one son, P. Carl Wolf, who was born September 28, 1892, in Auburn, Indiana. He was married June 20, 1912, to Alice Emma Bostwick, of Detroit, Michigan. At present he is employed as a locomotive fireman on the Wabash railroad at Detroit. Politically, Mr. Wolf is an ardent supporter of the Democratic party, but has never been an office seeker. Fraternally, he has for a quarter of a century been an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Hamilton. Personally, Mr. Wolf is a most affable gentleman, of honest convictions and sincere purpose, his upright life and wholesome moral influence making him popular throughout the locality in which he is so widely known and in which, practically his entire life has been spent. His wife is also a member of the Daughters of Rebekah and an ardent worker in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and is noted for her charitable work in the community where they live. Together they have made for themselves a successful life. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com