San Joaquin County
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ALBERT LYON WULFF
ALBERT LYON WULFF, a dealer
in paints, oils and wall-paper in Stockton was born in El Dorado County,
California April 16, 1860, a son of H. C. G. and Caroline (Lehrke) Wulff, both
Germans by birth. The father came across the plains in 1849, at the age of
about twenty-three, from St. Louis, Missouri, where he had been for some time
engaged in the furniture business. He first went to mining in Placerville, and
continued in that line about six years, when he bought 160 acres and went to
farming. In time the 160 acres grew by repeated purchases to 1,400 acres in one
body, devoted to stock and grain-raising chiefly, with some attention to
orchards and vineyards. There was also some hydraulic mining on the place. The
father had been well, even highly educated in his native land, and that fast
received recognition in his new home, but he could be induced to fill no office
except of school trustee. He died in the spring of 1885, aged fifty-nine years.
The mother, born in 1835, is still living on the ranch with six of her ten
living children, two others have died in infancy. There were eight sons and
four daughters.
The subject of this sketch finished his
education with a full course in Placer Academy, and then went to plowing, by the
advice of his father. He, however, followed farming only six months, and at the
age of twenty-one became a clerk in Sacramento for a wholesale paint and oil
house, where he remained four years. He then came to this city and went into
the same line on his own account as a member of the firm of Douglas &
Wulff, on El Dorado street, in 1886. In 1888 he bought his partner’s interest
and has since been alone, at 296 Main street. Besides a good growing retail
trade, he wholesales some goods to country stores through the San Joaquin
valley, north as far as Sonora and south to Visalia. He had been the local
representative of Whittier, Fuller & Company, of San Francisco, and sold
out to them January 13, 1890.
Mr. A. L. Wulff was married in Sacramento,
in July, 1882, to Miss Louise Emrine, born in that city in 1864, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. (nee Krehmer) Emrine, both German by birth. The mother died
in Sacramento, aged sixty-one; the father, born about 1821, is living in 1890,
in St. Charles, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Wulff have two children: Ethel Louise,
born July 28, 1884, and Rutherford Lewellyn, born December 12, 1888. Mr. Wulff
is a member of Stockton Parlor, No. 7, N. S. G. W., and was its first
vice-president in 1889; also of Truth Lodge, No. 55, I. O. O. F., and of Court
San Joaquin, A. O. F., besides being one of the associated bicyclists of this
city, the O. L. W., or Oak Leaf Wheelman.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 508-509. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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