GEORGE H. WOLLE 

The birth of George H. Wolle occurred December 3, 1864, in Bethlehem, and he is next to the youngest in his father's family, which comprised ten children. His education was obtained in the Moravian Parochial School and in Swartz's Academy. On the completion of his primary studies he entered the Ulrich Preparatory School, and afterward was enrolled as a pupil in Lehigh University. When sixteen years of age he was appenticed as a machinist, and later went to Dennison, Ohio, where he was employed in the Pan Handle shops for the three succeeding years. For two years thereafter he was employed for short periods in Chicago, Omaha and Denver. In the spring of 1886 he returned to Bethlehem, and entered Lehigh University that fall, where he pursued a course of electrical engineering, from which he graduated in 1887. Going to New York, he was then employed with the New York Accumulator Company, being Superintendent of the construction works, and remaining with them for nearly two years. During this time he traveled in Pennsylvania and New York, putting up plants for the company. Next he was with the Ft. Wayne Electric Company as Superintendent of Construction, his field of work being in the West, and much of the time he was in Texas, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, besides Canada and New York.

In 1891 Mr. Wolle returned to Bethlehem, taking charge and being made Superintendent of the Bethlehem Electric Company, the works of which are situated on Vineyard Street, in West Bethlehem. This concern has been greatly increased of late years, and they now have over forty miles of wire in the three Bethlehems and in Fountain Hill. The systems used are the Thomson Arc Light and the Westinghouse-Allen Incandescent. The plant has a five-hundred-horse power engine and boilers, and keeps running nearly five thousand incandescent and one hundred and eighty-four arc lights.

In Galena, Ill., George H. Wolle was married, in 1890, to Miss Lena Clauer, who was born, reared and educated in that city. Her death occurred in Bethlehem in 1891. Mr. Wolle is fraternally a member of Elk Lodge, of this city, and religiously is identified with the Moravian Church.