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Kotes on tlje iFamflff of "Bt WioU
gathering and forwarding supplies for the Sanitary Commission, etc. In
1871 he became one of the first settlers of Vail, and here, too, "has
taken an active part in schools and churches, and all public interests,"
and, " wherever living has been, for many years, an Elder in the church,
and an earnest worker in the sabbath-school, ever recognizing and appre-
ciating Christian character, wherever found, without reference to sectarian
lines. His family are in sympathy with him."
178 AUSTIN 8 DeWOLF ESQ., now a lawyer in Greenfield, Mass.,
was born in 1838, in Deerfield, Mass. He is the great great great grandson
of Josiah and Anna (Waterman) De Wolf, through Simon son of Josiah,
179-81 Elisha^ son of Simon, Simon ^ son of Elisha, and Almon,'' son of Simon,
who married Elvira Newton and had Austin. Mr. DeWolf writes of
himself as follows : " Modesty forbids me to write much of myself. I
have been in practice here in Greenfield since 1863. I am not a graduate
in course from any college. I received an honorary A.M., in 1881, from
Trinity." Rt. Rev. Bishop Williams of Connecticut, a native of the same
town, is a friend of his.
Beside those individuals of the family of whose useful and honorable
lives we thus catch glimpses, by the fragments of information which reach us,
there may be grouped together several others, whose special distinction has
been that they served their country in military offices. The military career
of the family began with Balthasar and his sons serving in the train-band,
or militia, of Lyme ; and there is a tradition that a De Wolf of the third
generation—said to have borne the name of Simon—died of "the plague"
(probably yellow fever), in 1741, in service under Admiral Vernon in the
West Indies. Nathan DeWolf of Saybrook, afterwards of Nova Scotia,
was, in 1755-56, Commissary in Col. Elihu Chauncey's regiment, in the
expedition to Crown Point. Simon son of Josiah and Anna (Waterman)
DeWolf served in the old French War, and died in the army, in 1756, at
the age of thirty-six, leaving a widow and four children, from one of whom
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