Jacob Wolf , one of Jay county's well known farmers and stockmen and joint proprietor, in association with his brothers, John and George Wolf , of an excellent farm in Noble township, where the brothers reside, on rural mail route No. 2 out of Ft. Recovery [Mercer Co., Ohio], was born over in the neighboring county of Mercer, in Ohio, but has become well established as a citizen of Jay county. Mr. Wolf was born on May 9, 1870, and is a son of Jacob and Catherine (Baltzley) Wolf , both natives of Germany and the latter of whom was but a babe in arms, hardly more than a month old, when her parents came to this country with their family and settled in the vicinity of Delaware, Ohio, where she lived until her marriage. The senior Jacob Wolf was but a lad when he came to this country with his parents, the family locating in Morrow county, Ohio, where he remained until after his marriage at about the age of twenty-one, when he established his home on a farm of forty acres in Mercer county and there he spent the remainder of his life. He and his wife were the parents of eleven children, five of whom are still living, the three sons above mentioned, and two daughters, Mary, wife of George Noble, and Sarah, wife of Jacob Sauntman.
The junior Jacob Wolf and his brothers, John and George Wolf , were reared on the home farm in Mercer county and became practical farmers and stockmen. On March 8, 1902, they bought the farm of 208 acres on which they are now living in Noble township, this county, and have since resided there, bringing the place up to a high standard of cultivation. Since taking possession of this place they have finished clearing all but about thirty acres, which they have left as a woodlot, and have their fields well drained and profitably cultivated. They carry on their operations in accordance with approved modern principles of agriculture and a tractor is one of the valuable adjuncts of their well-equipped farm plant. In addition to their general farming operations they give considerable attention to the raising of pure bred Big Type Poland China hog's and are doing well in that line. The brothers are bachelors. In their political views they reserve the privilege of maintaining their independence of partisan ties. Jacob Wolf is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Ft. Recovery and takes a warm interest in the affairs of that popular order.
SOURCE: Milton T. Jay, M.D., History of Jay County Indiana, Historical Publishing Co., Indpls. 1922, Vol. II, pp. 307-308. Transcribed by Eloine Chesnut