Brief Life History of Ernest Knox
When Ernest Knox Wolf was born on 24 December 1880, in Franklin Township, Izard, Arkansas, United States, his father, Major Enoch Obed Wolf, was 52 and his mother, Elizabeth Agnes Billingsley, was 41. He married Cora Lena Billingsley on 28 October 1900, in Izard, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Glass Township, Jackson, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 28 August 1954, in Tarrant, Texas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States.
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- Ernest K Wolff, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ernest K Wolf, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Earnest Knox Wolf, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
German, English, Dutch, and Danish: from a short form of the various ancient Germanic compound names with the first element wolf ‘wolf’, or a byname or nickname with this meaning, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a wolf. The wolf was native throughout the forests of Europe, including Britain, until comparatively recently. In ancient and medieval times it played an important role in ancient Germanic mythology, being regarded as one of the sacred beasts of Woden. The surname of German origin is also found in many other parts of Europe, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia, often as a German translation of local equivalents. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Farkas , Czech and Slovak Vlk , Slovenian Volk , Ukrainian and Slovenian Vovk , Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian Vuk , and also Czech, Slovenian, Croatian, Slovak, and Hungarian Volf . In part, this is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare De Wolf , Wolfe , Wolff , Woolf , Woulfe , and Wulf .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Volf meaning ‘wolf’, which is associated with the Hebrew personal name Binyamin (see Benjamin ). This association stems from Jacob's dying words ‘Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil’ (Genesis 49:27). Compare Volf .
Irish: variant of Woulfe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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