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George Wolff, of the firm of Wolff & Bro., proprietor of the New Haven Roller Mills, is a native of France, born in 1842, and is the son of John and Katie (Kline) Wolff, also natives of France. The mother was born in 1805, and in about 1869 came to the United States, and is now living in New Haven. The father died when George was an infant. The latter received but a limited education, and began working on a farm at the age of nine, where he remained three years, and then learned the milling business. In 1860 he came to the United States, and worked for some years in a foundry in Connecticut. He then went to New York, and from there to Ohio, and in 1865 to St. Louis, where he was married, in 1867, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Kauffman. Seven children were the result of our subject’s marriage, viz.: Amelia, Lillie, Leanora, George, Emil, Delefin, and Clara. After spending five or six years in Southeast Missouri, having charge of a mill for a St. Louis firm, Mr. Wolff, in 1876, came to New Haven, and soon after he and his brother, Jacob, purchased the New Haven flour mills which they have recently very much improved, and which has a capacity of 200 barrels per day. It now turns out 1,100 barrels per week. Mr. Wolff is strictly independent in his political belief, and he and his wife are members of the German Lutheran Church.