JOHN W. WOLF

JOHN W. WOLF. – Wolf & Sons are successors to Wolf, Brown & Co., general commission merchants and dealers in California and Oregon produce: potatoes, onions, beans, green and dried fruits, nuts, poultry, eggs, bags, twine, etc., and members of San Francisco Produce Exchange, Nos. 319, 321 and 323, Davis street, San Francisco.

Mr. John W. Wolf, the senior member of the above firm, is a native of Prussia, born April 15, 1822, at Pritzwalk, where he was reared and educated. He is the youngest in a family of seven children, and the only one now living. The parents are also deceased, both having died when our subject was quite young. Mr. Wolf emigrated to America, and located in Ohio, in 1848, where he remained until 1852, when he came to California, via Nicaragua, taking passage on the steamers Morning Star and S.C. Lewis, respectively. On his arrival in California he engaged in teaming in San Francisco, some three years; then removed to the city of Sacramento, where he engaged in the produce business until 1863. Then he returned to San Francisco, where he has since been in the commission business. His sons, William H. and George, are associated with him. The firm has a large trade in the Northwest, - Oregon and Washington; also the principal Eastern cities. It is one of the principal commission houses of San Francisco, and is well known throughout the interior of the State and coast.

Mr. Wolf was joined in marriage at San Francisco in March, 1856, with Miss Margaret Long, a native of Rochester, New York. They have seven children, namely: Alice M., Lulu, Annie, William H., George, Ralph and Daniel.

Politically Mr. Wolf is a staunch Republican, although not active in the political machinery. Socially he is identified with the F. & A. M., Oakland Lodge, No. 188; the I.O.O.F., University Lodge, No. 144; and the Golden Rule Encampment, No. 36, all of the city of Oakland.