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���in the academy. He attended the University of Wooster, and completed his education at Amherst Col- lege, Massachusetts ; was elected Principal of Mahon- ing Institute, Mahoning Co., Ohio, in which position he remained until the spring of 1876 ; began the study of law on the 14th day of April, 1876 ; was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court, at Columbus, Ohio, May 7, 1878 ; formed a partnership with William H. Pritch- ard, for the practice of law, Dec. 1, 1879 ; the style of the firm is Pritchard & Wolfe, is enjoying a most envi- able reputation as lawyers, and have their oflBce in P. 0. Block, North Park street, Mansfield, Ohio. Mr. Wolfe was married to Miss Jennie Leiter Sept. 22, 1877, and his family now consists of his wife and daughter, Grace May, aged 2 years. In politics, Mr. Wolfe is an active Democrat, holding official positions in the cam- paign clubs of his party, and, in the spring of 1879, was elected to the office of City Solicitor for Mansfield.

WOLFE, SAMUEL G., COL. (deceased), born in Wyo- ming Valley, Luzerne Co., Penn., in 1798 ; his father, Jacob Wolfe, dying, his mother, Eleanor Wolfe, with Samuel, Peter and Jacob, her sons, and Eliza, Maria, Catherine and Artemisia, her daughters, along with the Ayres families and the Culvers, emigrated to Ohio, the Wolfes and the Ayrses settling in Frederickstown, Knox Co., in 1807, being the second arrival to settle here. On the breaking-out of the war of 1812, Jacob volun- teered, and went to the army, serving in the regiment of Col. Lewis Cass ; Peter was a scout, and Samuel, be- ing but 14 years of age, was compelled to stay with the family as a help against the Indians. The Wolfe fam- ily moved to Mansfield in 1812, where Eliza taught school and kept military stores in the block-house. The Wolfes lived on the northwest corner of the premises now occupied and owned by John Wood, on West Market street. When Samuel became of age, he carried on the cabinet business there for some years, until he was elected Sheriff of the county ; he served in that capacity four years, and then was elected and re-elected Auditor of the county, serving four years ; he was a Colonel in the militia, and has been efficient in its organization, as well as a popular officer ; he was a man of commanding presence, and, like his brothers, large and over six feet in height. He exercised a great deal of influence in politics, and had many friends who desired to run him for Congress. He died in Seneca Co., Ohio, in 1868.

WOLFARTH, JACOB, stonemason. He was born March 24, 1854, in Holmes Co. Married, Jan. 17, 1875, to Lucy A. Smith, she was born in Seneca Co. May 26, 1854; they have the following children : Mary A., born March 24, 1876; Dorthea Barbary, Jan. 7, 1878. Residence 115 West First street, Mansfield.

WOLFERD, EZRA, shoemaker ; son of George Wol- ferd. He was born April 17, 1831, in Franklin Town- ship ; he engaged as an apprentice in 1847 with David Wise, of Mansfield, and served three years ; he has since that time been constantly engaged at his trade. He was married in 1854 to Feny Simmons, who was born in Germany ; they have two children — Stephen, born April 8, 1856, and Delia, July 26, 1860; Stephen was married to Minnie Longsdorf in 1879. Mrs. Feny Wolferd died in January, 1877. Mr. Wolferd is en- gaged with Rigby & Cox, working at his trade.

��WOOD, JOHN, proprietor woolen mills. He was born Nov. 22, 1819, in Concord, Mass.; he came to Ohio in 1837, located in Cleveland, remained there one year, then came to Mansfield ; engaged as clerk for E. P. Sturges, continued for six years ; in 1847, he en- gaged in partnership with Sturges Grimes & Co., after- ward changed to Sturges, Wood & Witter, wholesale merchants. He was married, Sept. 1, 1847, to Char- lotte B. Parker, daughter of Judge Parker ; she was born in 1823 in Mansfield ; they have four children — Edward P., born Aug. 16, 1848 ; he graduated at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., and is now in the navy ; Lizzie, William S. and Fannie P.

WORDEN, MILTON W. (deceased). Judge Worden was born in Liverpool, Medina Co., Ohio, Sept. 30, 1839; after coming to this county, he resided for a number of years in Washington Township, where he was married, Nov. 22, 1859, to Miss Anna McFarland, daughter of an old resident of that township. Placed at an early age, by the death of his father, in circum- stances where it became necessary for him to depend in a large measure upon his own resources, he marked out for himself a path in life, which many a youth un- aided by fortune and friends, would have been fearful to essay, and by his integrity, valor and ability, reached a position in his brief life of twenty-nine years, in and by which he commanded the regard of his fellow-men, the esteem and respect of his comrades and the warm affections of his familiar friends. Judge Worden, by a course of preparatory studies and reading, fitted himself for, and gained admission to, the bar ; but the gates of the temple for him were closed almost simul- taneously with his entrance. The tocsin of the mighty rebellion was sounded ; the call of the country to arms was made, and he enlisted in the 32d 0. V. I., in the beginning of the rebellion ; while acting as Captain in that regiment at the battle of Harper's Ferry in 1862, he lost a leg, which incapacitated him for further serv- ice, when he returned to Mansfield and was elected Probate Judge for one term in the fall of 1864 ; he was shortly after appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue, which position he held at the time of his death. Judge Worden at the time of his death left a wife, Anna McFarland Worden, and five children— Ella, Martha E., Frank S., Albert Milton and Lillie, all of whom are living.

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BOWLAND, ROBERT. He was born Sept. 19, 1774, in Pennsylvania. Was married in 1815, to Ann J. Mercer, who was born in February, 1791 ; came to Ohio in 1826, located in Mansfield and engaged in the dry goods business many years. Died in November, 1857 ; Mrs. Bowland died in April, 1858.

PRITCHARD & WOLFE, attorneys and counselors at law. The firm is composed of William H. Pritchard and Norman M. Wolfe, both natives of this county; Mr. Pritchard graduated from the University of Woos- ter in 1874; he then superintended the Shelby schools from 1875 to 1878; he began the practice of law Dec. 1, 1878. Mr. Wolfe was educated at the University of Wooster, and, soon after leaving college, succeeded ot

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