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Johann Friedrich (John) Woelfle was born in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario in 1870. He was the son of John Jacob Woelfle (1828-1888), a German emigrant who farmed and made and sold ploughs in Berlin, Ontario. John Jacob Woelfle married his second wife, Emilia Krug, in 1864 and of their nine children, John Woelfle was the second son, and Eduard E. Woelfle (born in 1873) was the fourth son. He worked for a time as a commercial traveller for the firm of Callaghan and Company of Chicago, Illinois, a publisher of legal reports, digests and material of interest to lawyers and the legal profession. Woelfle died in 1896.
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Contains 10 letters from John Woelfle to his brother Edward E. Woelfle, written while John Woelfle was travelling for a company called Callaghan & Co. accross the United States.
- Date and Place From: January 3, 1895 Chicago, [Illinois] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
- Date and Place From: February 13, 1895 Chicago, [Illinois] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
- Date and Place From: March 10, 1895 Fort Wayne, [Indiana] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
- Date and Place From: March 17, 1895 Urbana, [Ohio] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
- Date and Place From: September 22, 1895 Lexington [Missouri] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
- Date and Place From: October 6, 1895 Hot Springs, [Arkansas] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
- Date and Place From: October 20, 1895 Fort Worth, [Texas] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
- Date and Place From: December 8, 1895 San Antonio, [Texas] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
- Date and Place From: December 15, 1895 Brenham, [Texas] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
- Date and Place From: December 22, 1895 Galveston, Texas To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
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At the time these letter were written John Woelfle was a commercial traveller for the firm of Callaghan and Company of Chicago, Illinois, a publisher of legal reports, digests and material of interest to lawyers and the legal profession. Eduard E. Woelfle, to whom the letters are addressed, was born in Berlin, Ontario on July 4, 1873. He served as a machinist's apprentice at Goldie and McCulloch in Galt, Ont., worked as a journeyman in the United States, and returned to Berlin in 1906 to open a business with his brother Gustave. This was incorporated in 1920 under the name of Woelfle Brothers, Limited.