Brief Life History of Samuel Isaac
When Samuel Isaac Wolf was born on 5 April 1871, in Allemans, Gulich Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Daniel Isaac Wolf, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Ann Hanna, was 30. He married Angie Mae Becker on 25 December 1905, in Grant, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Union District, Grant, West Virginia, United States in 1910 and Tucker, West Virginia, United States in 1920. He died on 8 February 1944, in Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Bayard Cemetery, Bayard, Grant, West Virginia, United States.
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- Sam I Wolfe in household of John I Boring, "United States Census, 1910"
- Samuel I. Wolfe, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Sam I Wolfe, "Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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