Milton N. Wolfe

As printed in 1909

MILTOX N. WOLFE.

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Milton N. Wolfe acquired hi* education in the common schools but labored mostly with his father in his tanyard until he was sixteen years old, and then at the harness trade with his father until his demise. Following his father's death, however, he took up the shoemaker's trade and after completing his term of indenture worked at the same in Orange, Coshocton county, for two years. He then engaged in the same business on his own account for several years. Having heard favorable reports concerning the western country, he started for Kansas in 1860, at the age of twenty-three year's, and there entered one hundred and sixty acres of government land, to which he added a tract of similar size by purchase. In the fall of that year he returned to Coshocton county and resumed work at his trade in Orange. On landing home from his 1860 tour he had just direc shillings left with which to commence business again.

On the 2d of March. 1861. Mr. AVolfe was united in marriage to Miss Harriet A. Emerson, one of four children Ijorn of the marriage of Timothy and Annora A. Emerson. Five children blessed this union, namely: Xora E., the wife of H. C. Davis, a resident of Great Bend, Kansas; Lulu L., the wife of George Peacock, of Coshocton: Claridon C., who died April 22. 1881, at the age of sixteen years: Alinnie L., the wife of George Walters, of West Lafayette; and Ina L., the wife of Bert Leighninger, now operating a lumber and planing-mill in West Lafayette.

Following his marriage Mr. Wolfe worked at shoemaking in ()range for nine years, with exception of four months in 1864, while serving as fourth corporal in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio "\"volunteer Infantry. In the spring of 1870 he went to Chase county, Kansas, where he owned three hundred and twenty acres of land as previously stated, and it was his intention to remove his family to that locality the following fall, but while making arrangement to erect a house and other buildings upon his farm he received a telegram saying that his wife was dangerously ill, and he left everything and returned home. His wife recovered but was unwilling to give her consent to their removal west, and they located on a farm of one hundred and fifty-nine acres in Oxford township, which land her father gave them. Here Mr. Wolfe erected a fine residence and for a number of years he engaged in the cultivation and improvement of the place, but owing to ill health, he finally rented the farm and removed to Emersrm Mills, where he engaged in the boot and shoe and general grocery business for four years. After closing out this business at Emerson Mills, he rented his farm for three years, ca.h rent, and with Ina. his youngest daughter removed to Coshocton, where he bought a fine residence property, residing here until his daughter Ina married and left him alone. He then watched it for three months, when he rented his property and moved his effects to his daughter Ina's at West Lafayette, Ohio. Since then he ha?

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Mr. AVolfe has traveled quite exten.sively over this country, spending four months in Kansas and Nebraska in 1860, when Indians and buffaloes were.-till numerous in that.section. Later he again visited Kansas as previously stated, and in the spring of 1888 he and his daughter Ina left home and for two years and forty-three days traveled throughout the west, spending some time in various states and territories and going as far north as British Columbia. In 1906, he again went west and spent eleven months in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa.

Mr. Wolfe gives stanch sui)]iort to the republican party but never sought nor desired office. He is a member of the blue lodge of Masons, No. 175, at New Comerstown, Ohio, in which he ha.s filled all of the chairs save that of worshipful master, and he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for thirty-eight j'ears, now connected with the church at Coshocton. Seventy-one years have come and gone since Mr. Wolfe first opened his eyes to the light of day in Coshocton county and in the intervening period he has been a prominent factor in the advancement of commercial and agricultural life of the section of the state in which he has always made his home. He is widely and favorably known and his history cannot fail to prove of interest to his many friends, and it is therefore with pleasure that we pi'sent his record to our readers.

As printed in Centennial history of Coshocton County, Ohio (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.