Capt. John Wolfe

Daily Oregonian Oct. 15, 1885

Death of Capt. John Wolf 

Shortly before 12 o'clock last night, Capt. John Wolf, the veteran
steamboatman, died at his residence on the corner of North Eighth and B
streets. He had been ill for about six weeks with a complication of heart
disease and indigestion, but seemed to be improving a week ago. Three days
ago he became weakened, and while it was feared he could never recover, his
death was not expected so soon. The end was very peaceful and apparently
without pain.

Capt. Wolf reached his 64th year on the 21st of last April. He had
been in steamboat service on the Willamette and Columbia for thirty-three
years, most of the time between Portland and the Cascades. He was the
oldest officer in the O.S.N. and O.R & N. company's river service, and no
master was more careful or possessed more skill. Until the railroad
superseded the steamboat, the entire traveling public knew the quiet,
steady captain, and a great many old residents when their eyes catch the
heading of this item will feel a sort of personal loss in the death of this
good and honest man. He leaves a wife and three daughters, one of them
married to Mr. John Klosterman, the other two single. Financially, the
family is left in comfortable circumstances.