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JACOB WOLFE
JACOB WOLFE, a farmer of Castoria Township, was born in Jonesburg, Union County, Illinois, September 22, 1832. In 1838 he went to Iowa,
where he remained for a few years and then moved to Carthage, Illinois. In the year 1857 he came to California by water, landing in San Francisco, where he remained but a short time. He then went to Monterey County, thence to Gilroy, then to this county, where he bought a ranch of 430
acres, now under the highest state of cultivation, devoted to the raising of
hay, grain and stock, under the management of his sons. Mr. Wolfe is without
doubt the pioneer bee-raiser of this section of the country, purchasing his
first colony in this State, in 1859, at the price of $85. He has imported bees
and queens from the most experienced and practical bee-keepers in the United
States, and from these raises by careful selection and crossing, a strain of Golden
Italian bees, that for beauty and heavy gatherers can not be surpassed.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 342. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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