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I»2 Austin DeWolf Esq., named above, is descended. Stephen De Wolf of
Lyme, great grandfather of the present Lyme family, served in the Revolu-
183 tionary War, and was a pensioner. '
Rev.
Erastus DeWolf, an Episcopal
clergyman, died of disease contracted in taking care of the sick in the late
184 civil war. Thomas E. DeWolf of Salem, Mass., a member of the iS*""
Conn. Regfiment, died of wounds received in the late war. As has been
mentioned, Dr. Oscar C. De Wolf was a surgeon in the service of Massa-
chusetts in the same war; and Lieut. William DeWolf, son of Hon.
Frederick William, laid down his life in the battle of The' Wilderness.
185 Capt. David O. DeWolf of Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., an active and
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successful business-man and inventor, on the first firing upon Sumter,
left all to engage for the war, was largely instrumental in raising a
company, and then, after devoted attentions to the sick, was placed
over the Quarter Master's Department. Having had a shoulder dis-
located by an accident to the train which was carrying his regiment into
service, and been carried to New York for surgical aid, he allowed himself
but one hour for the setting of it, then escaped from his nurses and
rejoined his regiment. On the battle-field of Manassas he assumed the
responsibility of drawing off and thus saving Pope's train with material for
30,000 men. Sherman's army, up to Atlanta, was provided for largely by
his care, the money which passed through his hands often amounting to
millions in one month. A brother of Capt. David O. DeWolf is Professor
and Colonel Daniel DeWolf, now a planter in Georgia, formerly professor
of modern languages in Western Reserve College, who served through the
late war, and commanded a regiment at its close. A former college-
associate of his has favored us with the following sketch : " Early in life
he taught school and studied law ;
he was a young lawyer in Toledo, Ohio,
at the outbreak of the civil war. He served through the war, and was in
command of a regiment at its close. He then became Superintendent of
Schools in Toledo. He received the honorary degrees of A.M. and Ph.D.
He went abroad in 1871. In 1876 he went to Western Reserve College
as Professor of Modern Languages. He resigned in 1880, and was elected
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