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PATRICK B. WOLF was born in Chicago, Illinois, October 7, 1848, and died at Clinton, Iowa, June 11, 1922. His parents were John and Honora (Buckley) Wolfe. The family lived for some time at Ottawa, Illinois, but removed to Lost Nation, Clinton County, Iowa, in 1854. Young Patrick attended common school and the Academy of Christian Brothers at La Salle, Illinois. He then took an academic course of two years at the State University of Iowa, and was graduated from the Law Department of the University in 1870. In 1871 he commenced the practice of law at Dewitt. From 1877 to 1880 he was corporation counsel for the town of Dewitt. In 1885 he was elected senator and was re-elected in 1889, serving in the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third general assemblies. He resigned as senator in 1891 and on November 10 of that year Governor Boies appointed him judge of the Seventh Judicial District to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Andrew Howat. By election he served in this position until August 31, 1904, when he resigned and formed a partnership with his son, John L. Wolfe, for the practice of law in Clinton, to which city he had removed in 1893. In 1910 he was an unsuccessful candidate on the Democratic ticket for judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa.