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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 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 parole 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.