David H. Wolff and Ida F. Hooks

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Husband David H. Wolff ^{1 2}

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           Born: 18 Oct 1867 - Washington Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: Valentine Wolff (1828/1829-1908) 2 3 4
         Mother: Catharine Croyle (      -Aft 1912) 2 5

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Wife Ida F. Hooks ⁶

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           Born: 27 Mar 1870 - East Franklin Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 6
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         Father: Solomon Hooks (      -1900) 6
         Mother: Susanna Crisman (      -1901) 6

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Children

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1 M Mead Wolff ⁷

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           Born: 26 Oct 1901 7
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2 F Helen Wolff ⁷

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           Born: 25 Apr 1904 7
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General Notes: Husband - David H. Wolff

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He received his education in the schools of the home neighborhood. When a young man of twenty he left home and went to work in the Lake Erie car shops at McKees Locks, where he remained for a year and a half. He then took up the trade of bridge builder, which he learned with his uncle, Jo­seph Croyle, being with him about five years. He became foreman of a bridge gang, being thus engaged for three years, and later worked about one year for the Baltimore & Ohio Rail­way Company, after which he entered the Fort Wayne car shops, at Allegheny City, PA, where he was employed for a period of ten years, as carpenter and car builder. In 1899 he came to live in Washington township, Arm­strong County, where he remained four years, at the end of that time buying the Solomon Hooks homestead, in East Franklin township, upon which he thereafter resided. He made many improvements on this old place after it came into his possession. It comprised 140 acres of valuable land, 100 acres being under cultivation, and in connection with gen­eral farming he raised considerable fruit, apples, peaches, pears, cherries and other small fruit. He had fine dairy stock and draft horses, and also dealt in timber to a considerable ex­tent, and did well in all his ventures, be­ing an energetic manager and showing excel­lent judgment in whatever he undertook.
Though busy with his own affairs, he found time to take an interest in public matters, was quite active in local politics as a member of the Republican party, and was chosen to fill several offices. He and his wife were active mem­bers of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, and he was a leading worker in the church and Sunday school. He belonged to the I. O. O. F. lodge at Middlesex, and to the Daughters of Liberty, and was very well known over a wide territory in connection with his various activities.

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 954.

2 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 132.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 886, 954.

4 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 498.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 886.

6 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 955.

7 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 956.