Hawthorne, Julian, Ed.  History of Washington the Evergreen State: 
From Early Dawn to Daylight.  Vol. 2.  New York: American 
Historical Publishing Co., 1893.  p. 669-670.

WOLFARD, LAKE D. attorney-at-law, than whom the State 
has no more popular, energetic, or thoroughgoing business man, 
was born in Oregon in 1857.  His father was born in Alsace, and his 
mother was a native of the Buckeye State.  Young Wolfard laid the 
foundation of his education in the public schools of the Webfoot 
State, and supplemented the knowledge thus obtained by a classical 
course under an able tutor.  Leaving school, he came to Colfax in 
1872, where he resided up to five years ago, since which time he 
has resided at Tacoma.  He began reading law with a firm in 
Portland, Ore., and finished his legal studies with Jacob Hoover, 
now President of the Exchange National Bank of Spokane.  Mr. 
Wolfard was admitted to the Bar in 1880, and commenced practice 
at Colfax in partnership with E. H. Sullivan, Superior Judge of 
Whitman County, and Mr. P. C. Sullivan, a leading jurist of Eastern 
Washington.  He discontinued the pursuit of legal successes to 
engage in more remunerative speculations in realty, alternating in so 
doing between Colfax and Tacoma, where, as in Whitman County, 
he is largely interested in lots and outlying acres.  He is a Mason and 
Odd Fellow.  A reliable man, a warm friend, and a gentleman of 
cultivated mind and kind heart, Mr. Wolfard counts his friends by 
scores in every section of the State, while his business pluck, 
energy, and aptitude are universally commended.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

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