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JACOB WOLF, a wholesale liquor dealer in New Berlin, is a young man whose energy and persistence have brought him from the condition of a poor boy to that of one possessed of a snug little fortune. He was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, September 12, 1860, and is a son of Jacob and Juliana Wolf, who are also natives of the Empire. Before he came to this country he had fitted himself to struggle with the adversities of life by learning a good trade - that of a butcher.

Having determined to seek his fortune in the New World, Mr. Wolf bade adieu to home and friends and crossing the briny deep, landed at Baltimore, Md., July 3, 1881. He immediately continued his journey westward, stopping at cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked at a saloon three months at $2.50 per month, and was cheated out of this small amount by a dishonest employer. He came to Springfield, Ill., in 1882, and spent six months working at his trade. He then embarked in an enterprise which has proved much more profitable to him. He owns a splendid business property where he is conducting the liquor trade and he has recently built an elegant residence.

Mr. Wolf won for his wife, Miss Marietta Ade, whose parents are natives of the Fatherland, but who is herself a native of this county, in the public schools of which she received her education. Mr. and Mrs. Wolf are the parents of three children - Mathias, born January 25, 1886; Lizzie, November 20, 1887; John, September 27, 1889. Mr. Wolf has an extensive acquaintance among the Germans of the township and is highly esteemed among them as a first class business man. Since the above was written our subject has sold out his liquor business and has purchased three hundred and twenty acres of choice farm land one and one-fourth miles south of New Berlin and will in the near future erect a handsome residence and other suitable buildings.