Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 940 - 941

FRANK A. WOOLF, who is well known throughout Sedgwick County, is numbered among its best men, socially and financially, and is especially valued as a large-hearted and public-spirited citizen, whose enterprise and benevolence have contributed greatly to the happiness and comfort of the people around him. His homestead is one of the most noticeable in Illinois Township, for the air of thrift and comfort which surrounds it and the evidences of enterprise, taste and skill. The quarter-section of land comprising the farm has been brought to a fine state of cultivation, and the comfortable and commodious dwelling, flanked by barns, corn cribs, sheds, a fine orchard and the smaller fruit-bearing trees, makes a most attractive picture in the landscape of that region. These are illustrated in the view department of this ALBUM. The farm is largely devoted to the raising of grain and stock, the latter of which comprises horses, cattle and swine, which find ready market, and the proceeds of which yield a handsome income annually.

             Mr. Woolf, politically, is a stanch Republican, and with his estimable wife, a member in good standing of the Methodist Church at Goddard, in the building up of which he has been an able assistant and is numbered among the chief pillars. He was carefully reared by most excellent parents, Andrew T. and Angeline (Detro) Woolf, who at the time of his birth, Jan. 2, 1856, were among the well-to-do residents of Muskingum County, Ohio. The father was born in Virginia, and the mother in the Buckeye State, in the latter of which the parents still reside. Andrew T. Woolf, in early manhood a member of the old Whig party, identified himself with the Republican party soon after its organization, which was effected the same year our subject was born, and all his life has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. The parental household included five children, the eldest of whom, Charles H., married Miss Ellen Hart, and is now farming in Sedgwick County, this State; like his father, he and our subject, Frank A., are zealous supporters of Republican principles. They were the only sons. Laura B. is the wife of Leroy Dunn, one of the sturdy Democrats of Zanesville, Ohio, and a farmer by occupation; they have one child. Blanche is the wife of Milo Dunn, a book-keeper, of Zanesville, Ohio, and formerly a teacher in the schools of Muskingum County; they have one child. Maude is unmarried, and resides with her parents in Zanesville.

             Mr. Woolf commenced farming for himself in the Buckeye State when about twenty-two years old, and crossed the Mississippi in 1883, taking up his abode in this county. He was married in his native county, Feb. 27, 1878, to Miss Lizzie Handschy, also of Ohio, and who was born April 23, 1857. The parents of Mrs. Woolf, Frederick and Ruth (Win) Handschy, were born in Muskingum County. Ohio, where they were reared and married, and still remain. Their family consisted of two sons and six daughters. Caddie, the eldest, became the wife of William Dunn, who died about eighteen months after their marriage, leaving a young wife and one child, and the bereaved widow then returned to her father's house, where she still lives; Ella is the wife of Howard Dunn, a farmer of Muskingum County, Ohio, and the mother of two children, one of whom is deceased; George married Miss Cora Dunn; Lizzie, Mrs. Woolf, was the fourth child; Dorothea is the wife of Charles Pierce, and the mother of one child; Mr. P. is a well-educated man, and carries on farming and teaching alternately in this State. Alice is unmarried, and continues at the old homestead; Flora, Mrs. Jacob Miller, resides in Pratt Center, this State, and is the mother of two children; her husband is Principal of the Westfield schools, and also engaged as a dealer in real estate. Frederick is associated in business with his brother-in-law, Mr. Miller, of Pratt Center.

             Mr. and Mrs. Woolf are the parents of two children, only one of whom is living, a little son, Willard, who was born April 1, 1885. Their eldest, Odessa, born Oct. 6, 1878, died on the 11th of April, 1887, when an interesting child nearly nine years of age.

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