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EDMUND WOLF of the firm of Wolf & Co., proprietors of the Medoc Steam Flouring Mills. There are three runs of burs of recent patterns. He is a native of Bedford county, Penn., where he was raised and educated. Born March 7, 1848, son of John and Elizabeth (Hancock) Wolf, both natives of same county. His father is still living in Pennsylvania, while the mother died when the above subject was quite small. When sixteen years of age he enlisted in Company H, Fifty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the following battles in Virginia: Cold Harbor, Old Town Creek, Signal Hill, Appomattox Court-House, and in front of Petersburgh until the surrender of General Lee’s army. He served in all some twenty-two months. He returned to Bedford county, Penn., and commenced the miller’s business. In the spring of 1868 came to Jasper county and devoted some five years in the Galesburgh Mills. In 1878 he purchased one-half interest in the Medoc Mills with Mr. Ira Grayson. In April, 1879, Dr. Thomas Donehoo purchased Mr. Grayson’s interest, which formed the firm of Wolf & Co. Mr. Wolf was married in this county, June 4, 1872, to Eliza Crenshaw, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Crenshaw. Mrs. Wolf was born in 1850, a native of this county. She has a family of six children, as follows: Rose, Mahaska, Edmund C., Ira, Earl, and Pearl. Mrs. Wolf is a member of the Christian Church.