Gustave Adolph Wolf

Gustave Adolph Wolf, a lawyer of acknowledge merit and great experience, and a well-known citizen of Grand Rapids, Mich., was born in Ogdensburg, N.Y., February 1, 1858, and is a son of Jacob and Clara (Newburg) Wolf the former a native of Bavaria and the latter of Wurtemberg, Germany, but married in New York. Jacob Wolf came to the United States in 1852 and located, at first, in Elmira, N.Y., where for a short time he was engaged in merchandizing; he next moved to Ogdensburg, where he followed the same business until 1869, when he came to Grand Rapids, and here continued in trade until within the past few years, when he retired. Mr. and Mrs. Wolf have had born to them seven children, in the following order: Benjamin, of Evart, Mich.; David, of Grand Rapids; Gustave A., the subject of this sketch; Joseph, deceased; Esther, married to A. M. Amberg, a merchant of Grand Rapids; Ida, wife of M. A. Heyman, of the Heyman Furniture company, also of this city, and Bertha, wife of Prof. M. Levi, of the university of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The family worship at the Temple Emanuel. Jacob Wolf is a Mason, and politically he is a republican. He is a gentleman of means, and is greatly respected for his many personal merits. Gustava A. Wolf, was a lad of eleven years when brought to Grand Rapids by his parents. He attended here public school until seventeen years of age, and then entered the law office of Taggart, Simonds & Fletcher, with whom he read law for a year, and then entered the law department of the Michigan university at Ann Arbor, from which he graduated in 1878 with the degree of bachelor of law. He then contracted with his former preceptors as clerk, and worked and studied with them as such until 1881, when the firm became Simonds, Fletcher & Wolf, and so continued until 1883, when Mr. Wolf embarked in business on his sole account, since then he has been actively engaged in general practice, although for a time he made a specialty of commercial law. Mr. Wolf was joined in wedlock at Rock Island, Ill., November 30, 1887, with Miss Amanda Rosenfield, who was born October 23, 1864, a daughter of Meyer and Caroline Rosenfield. In politics, Mr. Wolf is a republican, and fraternally he is a member of Doric lodge, F. & A. M.