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"NoUn on tJie iFatnilff of Be WLoU
State Superintendent of Public Instruction. I think he was re-elected,
and served until 1884. He has a fine physique and is a ready, popular
speaker. He is a practical man of affairs, rather than a student. He has
had considerable influence on the public schools of Ohio, and his judgment
on matters pertaining to them has been respected."
Another brother of the same family is Henry H. De Wolf of Logans-
port, Indiana. The latter writes that his father Daniel died when he was
six years old, leaving six children, who were sent hither and thither among
relatives, getting homes as best they could. " The only legacy " he " ever
heard of was the Family Bible and Josephus." He adds "we were left to
paddle our own canoe, which, sometimes upstream and sometimes down,
has brought us to respectability and usefulness among our fellow-men, but
not to wealth."
Thomas,'' James,'' John
'' and George,'' De Wolf, four sons of Edward,^
a great great grandson of Stephen, son of Balthasar, by his second wife,
were in the late war for the Union. The two eldest died of wounds
received in the service.
James De Wolf, son of Mark Anthony, son of Amasa, son of Charles
of Pomfret, Conn., Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Army, was slain in
battle with the Indians under Gen. Custer. Robinson De Wolf, son of
Amasa, enlisted in the 5 2d Pa. Vol., early in the war, and was captured,
and in Libby Prison over a year.
We have written to all persons of the name whom we could hear
of. With the exception of one or two in New York, of immediate
Dutch descent, all with whom we have communicated are descendants of
Balthasar of Lyme. Their traditions, records and family-names assure us
of this, though in some cases the connecting link has been lost. We shall
still seek in all directions for fuller information ;
and
our Pedigree of
DeWolf, which will accompany this paper, will give our latest results.
We shall there sketch the earlier generations as completely as we can trace
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