Cary E. Wolfe

As printed in 1902

CARY E. WOLFE.

America has so many self-made men that often it is hard to point one out as especially deserving of notice. Self-made men vary in kind as widely as in the sum total of their individual achievements, and if there is any representative of the class who should receive attention in a work of this kind it is the man whose childhood was marked with misfortune and poverty and who in spite of numerous obstacles and discouragements has made his way to noteworthy and respectable success. Such a man is Cary E. Wolfe, a prominent farmer on section 19, Harrison township, Knox county, Ohio.

Mr. Wolfe may be said to be a product of Harrison township, having been born there May 9, 1856. He is a brother of Eli A. Wolfe, of Howard township, a biographical sketch of whom appears in this work. Mr. Wolfe, who is the eldest of his parents' family of two sons and a daughter, was reared in Harrison township, where he received scanty schooling in the Dudgeon district. When his father died he was only six years old, and being the oldest of the family the care of the farm and a great deal of hard work devolved upon him in his effort to keep their little household together and place the family on a substantial footing. He developed into a practical and successful farmer, and he is now the owner of one hundred and twenty-six acres of good land, which is under a high state of cultivation, is well provided with buildings and is in every way well equipped for successful operations. He is a breeder of thoroughbred American Delaine sheep, of which he has a fine herd, more than twenty-fivQ of his sheep being registered.

February 7, 1878, Mr. Wolfe married Miss Mary J. Ulery, daughter of Valentine and Lydia Ann (Uhl) Ulery. Mrs. Wolie, who was the second of the five children of her parents, was born at Killbuck, Holmes county, Ohio, but was reared in Harrison township, Knox county, where she was educated in the common schools. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe began housekeeping in a log house on the site of their present residence. The latter was built in 1881 and is a substantial frame structure in every way adequate and comfortable. Mr. Wolfe, who is an ardent Democrat, has filled the office of justice of the peace for more than six years and has for many years been a member of the township school board, in which capacity he was influential in improving the standard of the schools of the township and in erecting modern school buildings. He was received as an Entered Apprentice, passed the Fellow Craft degree and raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in Ohio Lodge, No. 199, Free and Accepted Masons, of Bladensburg; is a member of the order of Woodmen of America, and is actively identified with the Patrons of Husbandry. He has- long affiliated with the Christian church, in which for many years he has filled the office of deacon, and in the good work of the church he has participated most helpfully. Gary E. and Mary J. (Ulery) Wolfe have two daughters — Cordia May, who married Walter Earlywine, a contractor and builder in Harrison township, and Estella M., who is the wife of Willis Beboutt, and has a daughter named Mary Elizabeth, who is the only grandchild.

As printed in The Biographical record of Knox County, Ohio : to which is added an elaborate compendium of national biography (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.