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brought to his work the elements that insure ultimate success. He was one of the very first to engage in the work
in Cincinnati, and his earnestness, his fitness for the businless, his patient industry, and his intelligent perseverance
enabled him, in the development of his chosen field of
labor, to attain a celebrity probably unequalled west of the
Alleghenies. By hard work and sympathetic study he
achieved perfection in mechanism, and the instruments
produced by him became famous for their delicacy of touch,
their range and their richness of tone. The high places of
prosperity were not reached without a hard struggle, however. At one time, after his marriage, while he was at
work at the foundation of his reputation, his means were so
meagre that one room served for his factory and for the
home of his wife and himself. He married early in life
Solomence Yeck, a native of Pennsylvania, and the result
of the marriage was eleven children. In the year i865,
after having lived to enjoy to some extent the prosperous
results of his early struggles, he died, widely and sincerely
mourned. In religion he was a Catholic, and was a prominent and influential member of the church. In politics he
was a Democrat; but he was a patriot, never a partisan.
He steadily and earnestly worked for the support of the
government in its efforts to crush the rebellion, and at his
instance three of his sons enlisted in the Union army and
took part in many of the battles of the war. Not only was
he patriotic and public-spirited, he was philanthropic in a
large degree, and always gave generously of his means,
large or small, to promote the welfare of benevolent institutions and to meet the calls of private charity.
I842, and then entered into a copaltner ship with h is
brothers, Abraham and Isaac, in the clothing aeed wnoollen
goods business, under the firm-name of A. & I. Wolf & C o.
This firm was dissolved in the year I865 by the death of
the leading partner, Abrahaa m. It was soon re organized,
however, under the style of I. & D. Wolf. The fi rm re lin -
quished the mercantile busines s in I869, and lwent i nto the
brokerage line, which livne it has-since co ntinued to pursue.
In'politics Daniel Wolf was originally a Whig; but when
the Know Nothing party wa s organi zed he l eft the ranks
of the Whigs and entered those of the Dem ocrats. He
continued in the Democratic faith until the breaking out of
the war of the rebellion, in i86I, and then he considered
that the time had come to revoke his allegiance to any mere
party and yield it alone to his adopted country. He was
earnestly devoted to the preservation of the Union in its integrity, and supported with all his energy every measure for
the vigorous prosecution of the war. He, together with
other prominent and influential citizens of the old Fifth and
the adjacent wards of the city, started and organized the
first company of home military. The company was called
the " Stoner Rifles," and was composed of old men, who
armed and equipped themselves at their own expense.
This organization formed the nucleus of many of the companies that entered the army and participated in some of
the hardest worlk of the war. In the year I865 Daniel
Wolf was elected a member of the City Council in place of
Benjamin Eggleston, who had been chosen to a seat in
Congress. He was put forward by the best citizens of the
ward, was elected by a large majority, and performed the
duties of his position so acceptably that by successive reelection-s he has been kept in the position ever since. For
four years he was a lmlember of the Board of City Improvements, and at the present time he is Chairman of the
Finance Committee. He was married in 1847 to Rebecca
Bruel, of Cincinnati. Ten children have been born to
them, and of these nile are now living. His eldest daughter is the wife of H. S. Mack, of the firm of H. S. Mack &
Co., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and his second daughter-is
the wife of A. Meyer, of the firm of Meis & Meyer, wholesale boots and shoes.
oppior OLF, DANIEI, Broker, is a native of Bavaria.
Il ie was b orn in th e tcwn of Freidesheim, at
I Rheinpfaflz, in that country, on the 2d of April,
t i8s 9, and continued to live th ere until he was
f ourteen year s of ag e. Whil e still living in his
n ative town he secured the rudiments of a good,
substantial education. With h is reside nce ther e his school
opportunities came to an end, and such mental training as
he subsequently obtained was wholly due to his own unaided efforts. In the year i833 he c ame with his parents
to this country, and s ettl ed i nq St ark county, Ohio, wh ere
h is father went into business as a butcher and hotel keeper.
Inl the f ollowing year he went w ith he e f amily to find a
home in Cincinnati. He assisted his father there in the
butchering business; but the profits of the business did' not
come up to his desires, and he concluded to relinquish it.
Accordingly he accepted a position in a store at the dazzling
salary of three dollars per month. For six months he continued to work in this situation and on these terms, and
then, in the year 1837, when he was eighteen years of age,
he went again to work with his father, who had gone int o
the clothing business. He remained with his father until
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TIMSON, RODNEY M., Marietta, Ohio, was
L-.orn at Milford, New Hamp shire', on October
26tb, i824. He was descended from John Stim son, who came from En-,land to Boston, Massa cbusetts" about i640. He received his education
at Marietta Collb'ge, from which he graduated in
1847- He then commenced the study of law, and in i849
was admitted to the bar. But his f,-tncy for newspaper life
being greater, he abandoned the law and established the
Register, at Stouton, Lawrence county. This new work
received his best energies, and until the spring of i862 be
gave his entire attention to that paper. He then moved to