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REFERENCE: TOWN AND COUNTRY, PENNSBURG, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1900

A PROMINENT CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER OF TELFORD
Jonathan B. Wolf, Jr., a contractor and builder of Telford, has lived in that borough for the past thirty years, Mr. Wolf's business history is quite interesting.

He was born in Milford township, near Geryville, Bucks county, on the 10th day of May, 1840. He is one of the best known contractors in this vicinity having erected a large number of the buildings in these towns, among them are the Perkiomen National Bank, East Greenville; Pennsburg school house; Rev. O.F. Waage's residence, in this borough; Red Hill school house, and remodelled the Red Hill Hotel.

Mr. Wof entered his apprenticeship as a carpenter when a boy eighteen years of age. The first job given him by his employer was the laying of a floor in Dr. Chas. T. Waage's barn in this borough. Mr. Waage knowing him to be an apprentice, superintended the laying of the floor, and was obliged to instruct him how to saw the lumber. After he had completed his apprenticeship as a carpenter he worked for sixty-two cents a day. On many occasions he would carry his heavy tool chest upon his back from his home near Geryville to either Line Lexington, Chalfont or Mainland, a distance of fully fourteen miles.

Mr. Wolf is considered one of the best carpenters in that vicinity. In the year 1871 he started in business at Telford, where he erected a large planing mill, which he conducts to the present day.

During his first year at Telford he erected the home in which he now lives. When he erected his planing mill it was the only one between Quakertown and Lansdale. He erected a number of exceptionally large buildings throughout this and adjoining State and is at the present time erecting a beautiful mansion for County Treasurer Abraham Gottshall, of Lansdale. He also erected a large public school building at Lansdale at a cost of $25,000.

Mr. Wolf is a son of Jonathan Wolf, who resides with his son Edwin, near Geryville.

NOTE: I HAVE NO FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE ABOVE.




 

 

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