Complimentary Banquet ... Simon Wolf ... Seventieth Birthday, Washington 1906
Only Edition - Dedication Copy
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- Lot Number 45959
- Title (English) Complimentary Banquet in hopnor of Hon. Simon Wolf ... Seventieth Birthday
- Note Only Edition - Dedication Copy
- Author Various
- City Washingdon DC
- Publication Date 1906
- Estimated Price - Low 200
- Estimated Price - High 500
- Item # 1253008
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Physical Description
Dedication on fly by Wolf.
Detail Description
Simon Wolf (28 October 1836 - 4 June 1923) was a United States businessman, lawyer, writer, diplomat and Jewish activist. Wolf was born in Hinzweiler, Kingdom of Bavaria. He emigrated to the United States in 1848, making his home in Uhrichsville, Ohio. For several years, he followed business pursuits, but began to read law, and graduated from the Ohio Law College in Cleveland in 1861. He was admitted to the bar in Mount Vernon, Ohio, that same year. He opened a practise in New Philadelphia, Ohio, where he remained a year.
In 1862 he went to Washington, D.C., and opened a law office. In 1869, he was appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, holding that office until May 1878. In July 1881, he received the post of consul general in Egypt, which he resigned in May 1882. He made friendships with presidents Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley and Woodrow Wilson.
He was active in Jewish charitable and educational movements, and was a frequent lecturer on social, literary, and political topics. He was the founder and president of the Hebrew Orphans' Home at Atlanta, Ga., and president of the Board of Children's Guardians, Washington. Wolf was a prominent freemason, member of Lafayette lodge, No. 19, of Washington, D.C. He was very active in the Independent Order B'nai B'rith, of which he was president from 1903 to 1905. He died on 4 June 1923.
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