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have given up the practice of my profession entirely, and because I do not
need it. I have therefore nothing to hold me from devotion to my friends
when they call."
173 Of his son, DR. OSCAR C. De WOLF, he writes thus: "My
oldest son, Oscar C. De Wolf, M.D., now one of the professors in Chicago
Medical College, and Health Commissioner in that city, I sent to Paris,
two years after his graduation, for instruction in the French schools
and during those years he travelled more or less in Switzerland. He was a
surgeon in the Massachusetts service in the war of the rebellion." A copy
of a learned paper on the disease called Glycosuria, by Dr. Oscar De Wolf
—reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal—now lies
174 before us. Another son of Dr. T. K. De Wolf is Homer B. De Wolf, a
successful lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio.
175 CALVIN DeWOLF ESQ., born, in 1815, in Braintrim, Luzerne
(now Wyoming) county. Pa., is "one of the oldest lawyers of continuous
practice in Chicago, one of its strong characters, a bond between the
early and the present city. He was a pioneer-abolitionist, one of the
fathers of the municipal laws, and a popular and respected Justice of the
Peace for more than a quarter of a century. .
term without regard to party-politics.
. . re-elected term after
" Up to his majority he passed his time in working upon his father's
farm and in obtaining an education. With the assistance of a private tutor
and his father Giles Meigs De Wolf, who was a good English scholar and
a superior mathematician, he gained a fair knowledge of Latin, the higher
mathematics and surveying. He also taught school in two different places
before he was twenty-one years of age." In October 1837 "he arrived in
Chicago, poor, friendless and courageous." The next year he "engaged in
teaching and studying law, and other occupations, till he was admitted to
the Bar in May 1843, ^'"'d commenced practice. For eleven years he held
closely to the duties of his profession, obtained a fair business, and hosts of
friends. ... At the October term of the U. S. Circuit Court for the
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