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Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

Charles D. WOLFE, of Netcong, Morris county, New Jersey, is one of the representative business men of the town and county, and is a descendent of a family long resident in America. His grandfather was Augustus WOLFE, who was the owner of much landed property. He was a Democrat in political allegiance, and in religion a member of the Presbyterian church.

J. Salmon, son of Augustus WOLFE, was born in Mount Olive township, Morris county, in 1831, and is still living in excellent health. He resided in Morris county except for several years spent at lumbering in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, until 1884 when he removed to Ariel, Wayne county, Pennsylvania, and was there engaged in farming and lumbering lines. He is a member of the Free Methodist church, and in politics a Prohibitionist, although formerly affiliated with the Democratic party. He married Emma A., born in 1840, a daughter of Isaac LINE, a Quaker, of New Market, New Jersey, Children: Tilden, a farmer, married Ella WEED, of Wisconsin; Augustus, an attorney-at-law, of Gladstone, Michigan, married Minnie ALCOTT, of Wisconsin; Isaac L., a lumberman, of Glenwilie, New York, married Kate TAYLOR; Edwin S., a lumber dealer of Milford, Pennsylvania, married Luella DAVENPORT; Sarah N., married Charles DAVENPORT, a farmer of Saranac, Michigan; Clara S., unmarried; George, a lumberman, of Uniondale, Pennsylvania, married Emma AIKEN; William, deceased; Bathsheba, deceased; Charles, the subject of this sketch; J. Glenn, unmarried, a lumberman, of Uniondale.

Charles D. WOLFE was born in Netcong, Morris county, New Jersey, January 5, 1880. He was the recipient of a liberal education, the elementary courses be acquired in the public school, and he was graduated from the high school of Gladstone, Michigan, and Rochester University, New York, at which time he was twenty-one years of age. For about two years he was engaged in teaching school in the State of Pennsylvania, then he engaged in the lumber business at Uniondale, Pennsylvania, and finally, in February, 1910, removed to Netcong, and gave his undivided attention to the lumber business in that town. In this line he has been very successful, and he is now at the head of a very substantial concern. He is a Democrat in his political adherence, and in his religious affiliation a member of the Presbyterian church. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order. Mr. WOLFE married, December 28, 1904, Blanche, a daughter of George and Lucy WALKER, of Hamlin, Pennsylvania. Children: Lucile, Paul D. and Elizabeth.

Mrs. WOLFE prepared for teaching in her home state. This calling she pursued after completing her studies in the normal schools, at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. While thus engaged she met the subject of this sketch, likewise a teacher, and a happy marriage resulted. Mrs. WOLFE springs from substantial Pennsylvania – the WALKER's, on her father’s side, and the ABBEY's on her mother’s side – both families being well and widely known in Eastern Pennsylvania. Her father, George WALKER, was a soldier of the Civil War, seeing three years' constant service. He returned home broken in health, but to the time of his death steadfastly refused a pension, asserting that he was already well paid in seeing his country saved. Following his soldier life, he was eminently successful as a merchant.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)

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