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DAVID WOLF
In his business career David Wolf
has manifested unflagging industry, marked enterprise and keen discernment, and
as the secretary-treasurer of the Peters-Wolf-Dohrmann Company, one of the leading
insurance companies of Stockton, has made for himself a place among the
prosperous residents of that city. He
was born in Germany on October 20, 1863, and received his education in the fine
schools of his native country. He was
sixteen years old when he left home to come to the new world and the land of
greater opportunities; he first worked in Montana in the mines, then went to
British Columbia where he did the same kind of work. In his younger days he had the privilege of
studying music in his native land and became a proficient performer on the
violin.
In 1892 he came west and located in
San Francisco where he spent two years as a musician in the theaters of that
city; then he settled in Stockton, where during the next five years he was a musician
at the Yosemite, Avon and Stockton theaters.
In 1899 he entered the employ of Charles Weber to take charge of the
Capt. Charles M. Weber estate, which was, at that time, considerably involved,
and Mr. Wolf succeeded in straightening out the indebtedness and putting the
estate in fine condition. Since the
death of Charles Weber in 1912, he has had charge of the remainder of the
property for his heirs. In 1913 Mr. Wolf
entered the insurance business and in 1914 was made secretary-treasurer of the Peters-Wolf-Dohrmann
Company, doing a general insurance business, including fire, grain, automobile,
marine, life and accident. Fraternally
Mr. Wolf is a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias. He has passed through all the chairs of
Charter Oak Lodge No. 20 of Stockton; is treasurer of Uniform Rank K of P., and
secretary of the insurance section of the order; he was the first presiding
officer of the local D. O. K. K.
The marriage of Mr. Wolf united him
with Miss Ada Reynolds, a native of Pennsylvania. She is senior of the Grand Lodge of Pythian
Sisters of California and is in line for the chief, which office she will
occupy in 1923. They are the parents of
three daughters: Ida, Mrs. William
Peterson of Marysville; Florence, Mrs. Doyle Fetterman
of Crows Landing, and Fanny M., at home.
Mr. Wolf was president of the local Musicians’ Union for ten years and
is now a life member of same. He is also
a member of the Woodmen of the World and the Maccabees. Throughout his whole life whatever his hand finds
to do, where in his profession or in his official duties, or in any other
sphere, he does with all his might and with a deep sense of conscientious obligation.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1208-1208. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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