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have followed many trades and avocations, and have been, so far as we can
hear, respectable and useful in all their pursuits. In the imperfect records
we have received, we hear of two college-professors, several lawyers, and
more physicians, all men of active usefulness and good standing in their
professions.
A few individuals among these may be here noticed by name :
The late HON. DELOS ^ De WOLF, a prominent citizen of
Oswego, N. Y., was born at Columbia, N. Y., in 181 1, and died in 1882.
He was a great grandson of Josiah and Martha (Ely) De Wolf, through
their son Samuel ^ and their grandson Jabez.^ Samuel De Wolf was for
a number of years engaged in trade between Lyme and the West Indies.
His son Jabez was born in Lyme, and removed, in 1806, to Herkimer
county, N. Y., and later settled at Bridgewater in Oneida county. The
education of Delos was acquired at the common schools and the Academy
of Bridgewater, and in this town he began business at the age of twenty-
two. From 1844 to 1846 he was called to fill various public positions,
on the Democratic side of politics. In 1850 he removed to Oswego,
where he established the City Bank, of which he was the President from
1865 until his death.
DR. T. K. De WOLF, now of Chester Center, Hampden county,
Mass., was born, in 1801, in Berkshire county of Massachusetts. "At
85 years," he wrote in 1886, "my sun is almost down, but I have the con-
sciousness of not having lived in vain. In my professional life I have
graduated eleven students, my son last, but not least, of whom I am very
proud, as carr3nng on my name and professional honors when I am in sleep
which knows no waking." In a letter of the present year (1887) he says:
" Now I am happy to inform you that I have a nice mountain-home,
carriages and horses—everything to make my friends comfortable and
happy, and if any De Wolf blood is in your veins, no matter how near or
remote, my doors will open to you and yours, and thrice welcome. I
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