Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 564-565 [McCracken]

     JAMES ELMER WOELFLE, M. D., a well known medical practitioner
at Paducah, Kentucky, was born October 31, 1871, at Anna, Union
county, Illinois, a son of John Martin and Ann (Clark) Woelfle.  The
father was born December 12, 1826, in Bavaria, Germany, and died at
Stonefort, Illinois, December 11, 1882.  He came to America in 1849,
at the age of twenty-three years, a fair representative of the
educated young German.  He had graduated in medicine at Stassburg,
Germany, and located for the practice of his profession at Alton,
Illinois.
     The outbreak of the Civil war and the great need of stanch,
true men, gave Dr. Woelfle an opportunity to prove his loyalty to
his adopted country, and in 1861 he enlisted in the Thirty-first
Missouri Artillery, Battery B, and continued in the service until
the close of the war, coming out of the army as captain of his
battery.  Until his death he was an active member of the Grand Army. 
Captain Woelfle married, when about twenty-eight years of age, Miss
Anna Clark, who was born at Pellum Center, Canada, March 4, 1834, of
Irish ancestry.  She still resides at Grand Chain, Illinois.  Six
children were born to Captain Woelfle and wife, two sons and four
daughters, all surviving except one daughter.
     Dr. J. E. Woelfle is the youngest member of his parents family,
except one.  He was reared in Anna, Illinois, and was twelve years
old when his father died.  His mother then removed to Vienna,
Illinois, and there he pursued his education and finished the high
school course before beginning his study of medicine.  Dr. George
Bratton was his able preceptor and prepared him for entrance to the
St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was graduated
in 1897.  After serving for six months as an intern in the St. Louis
City Hospital, he located at Grand Chain, in his native state, and
continued in practice there until 1901, when he located at Paducah. 
He is well known in the medical associations of both Illinois and
Kentucky, being a member of the Illinois State Medical Society, the
Southern Illinois Medical Society, the McCracken County (Kentucky)
Medical Society.  Fraternally he is a Royal Arch Mason.
     In 1900 Dr. Woelfle was united in marriage with Hannon Echols,
who was born in Illinois, and they have one little daughter,
Kathleen Marie.

Woelfle Clark Echols
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Union-IL VA PA Germany Canada

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