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SIMON WOLF
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From Simon Wolf, "The Presidents I Have Known From 1860 to 1918,"
Washington: 1918.
Simon
Wolf (1836-1923), lawyer, statesman and prominent member of Washington's
German-American community, was born in Hinzweiler,
then and now a very small village (current population: 460) northwest
of Kaiserslautern in today's German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In
the period after 1815, the Palatinate was administratively, but not
culturally part of Bavaria. He emigrated to the United States as a boy
in 1848 and settled in Uhrichsville, Ohio. He
was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1861 and came to Washington the following
year, where he spent most of the rest of his life.
A
friend of presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson, Wolf was
named Consul and Agent Diplomatique to Egypt in 1881 and was at other
times in his life Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia and
a member of Washington's Board of Charities and Board of Education.
He was a prominent member of Washington Hebrew Congregation and was
known as a spokesman for Jewish causes in Washington.
As
a friend of President Grant's, he was responsible for convincing Grant
to attend the dedication of the historic Adas Israel Synagogue (now
the Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum)
as well as for convincing President McKinley to attend the ground-breaking
ceremonies for the Washington Hebrew Congregation's building on 8th
Street (now Greater New Hope Baptist Church). He was also a member of
the Sängerbund and other German-American organizations.
The
Washington City Directories in the 1890s list Wolf & Cohen, the law
and insurance business that he ran with his son-in-law, Meyer Cohen,
at 921 F St. NW in 1890 and at 926 F St. NW in 1898. |
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Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery
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