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Northern District of Illinois, in i860, an indictment was found against
Mr. De Wolf and four others, for the supposed crime of ' aiding a negro
slave called Eliza to escape '
from
. . . her master in Nebraska ;
and
his bail was fixed at $2,500. The case was dismissed in 1861. After the
expiration of his office as Justice of the Peace, in 1879, Mr. De Wolf
resumed the practice of his profession, in which he is still engaged, with
176 his son Wallace L. De Wolf."
In one of his letters he writes of the physical traits of his line of the
family as follows : "Of
my father's brothers, Amasa, Wyllys, Elisha and
Clement were rather short, well built, with light complexion, high cheek-
bones, rather broad faces and large heads. ... I do not possess these
peculiarities, though two of my brothers do."
177 DR. JAMES DeWOLF, now of Vail, Crawford county, Iowa, a
brother of Calvin De Wolf, was born, in 1819, in Cavendish, Vt. "His
boyhood and youth were spent in helping to clear up and cultivate a farm
of heavily timbered, hilly and rocky land " in Pennsylvania. But his thirst
for knowledge carried him through all difficulties in the way of obtaining
an education, until he at length began the practice of medicine on the
banks of the Susquehanna, "enduring the hardships and exposures to
which doctors in those days were subject, going upon horseback, day or
night, through storm and cold, on the rugged roads and stony bridle-paths
of that mountainous region," for ten years. After this, "going west," he
settled upon the wild prairie in Carroll county, Illinois, " where he threw
off his coat and went to work breaking prairie and building up a home ;"
and "soon became well-known, one of the prominent and reliable men
of his neighborhood, where he assisted materially in school- and church-
matters, and was for years Justice of the Peace, and looked upon as both
legal and medical adviser." In 1858-59 he was a member of the Illinois
Legislature. During the late war he was an active patriot, organizing and
maintaining militia and home-guard companies, raising funds for bounties,
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