JOHNSON CO, AR - A. W. WOOLF - Bio

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. Chicago: 
                  Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

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 A. W. Woolf is a prominent planter residing in Howell Township, 
Johnson County, Ark., but was born in the State of Kentucky, December 
27, 1840, being a son of D. W. and Anna (French) Woolf, they being 
also born in that State, the former in 1812. They were married in 
Caldwell County, and in 1846 removed from their native State to 
Missouri, and in 1862 to Arkansas, settling in Johnson County, where 
the father followed the occupation of farming, having been justice of 
the peace while a resident of Missouri, for eight years. He died on 
June 9, 1887, and his wife in 1885, both members of the Primitive 
Baptist Church. 

Their family consisted of two sons and five daughters, of which family 
the following members are living: Charity E., Mary J. (widow of S. R. 
Manning), and A. W., the immediate subject of this sketch. Those 
deceased are: Polly J., Martha E., William H. and M. A. A. W. Woolf 
was married in Stone County, Mo., in 1861, to Miss Elizabeth [p.321] 
Manning, a native of Alabama, and to this marriage six children have 
been born: T. A., M. E., M. A., Ora V. and S. P., and J. D. deceased).

Mr. Woolf was a soldier during the Rebellion, serving in Company C, 
Fourth Missouri Infantry, and was in the battles of Oak Hill, Prairie 
Grove, Drilwood, Helena, Marshfield, Pleasant Hill and others, serving 
until the close of the war, receiving his parol at Shreveport, La., in 
1865. He returned home to resume merchandising, but in 1888 also 
engaged in merchandising at Knoxville Station in this county, which 
establishment he continued until 1890, when he sold out. 

He erected a large steam cotton-gin, grist-mill and saw-mill combined 
in 1875, the capacity of the gin being fifteen bales per day, and of 
the latter 6,000 feet of lumber. He is also the owner of 405 acres of 
good land, with 225 under cultivation, on which are good buildings of 
all kinds and five acres of orchard. 

He, his wife and children are members of the Missionary Baptist 
Church, and he is a deacon in the same. He is a member of the Masonic 
order, Knoxville Lodge No. 370, and also belongs to Knoxville Lodge 
No. 30, of the I. O. O. F., and in both orders is holding prominent 
positions.