Herbert M Woolf, American merchant. Member staff of Governor Hyde, 1920-1924. Deputy police commissioner of Kansas City, 1922-1924; member Jackson County (Missouri) Park Board Director American Royal Live Stock Show. Vice president Menorah Hospital; Member National Association Retail Clothiers and Furnishers, Kansas City Chamber of C (directory).
Background
Herbert Morris Woolf was born on October 11, 1880, and graduated from Central High School in 1898. He was the president of, the Kansas City based luxury goods department store founded in 1865 by his father, Alfred Woolf and his uncle, Samuel Woolf.
Education
Educated Central High School, Kansas City. Unmarried. President Woolf Brothers, Incorporated., men’s and women's ready to wear, Kansas City (5 branch stores). President Midland Theatre & Realty Company, Midland Investment Company.
Career
Samuel and Alfred Woolf came to Leavenworth, Kansas in 1865, after the Civil War, from their native New New York There, they established a store where fine men"s shirts were made and sold. By June 1879, Kansas City had become the region"s urban commercial center and the business was accordingly relocated there, where it prospered.
Herbert Woolf began working for the business in 1912 and was president three years later.
He worked his way up from collector to window decorator to buyer, and junior partner in his twenties. Foreign over thirty years, expanded and thrived under Herbert to become one of the largest and most revered luxury goods department stores in the Midwest, with branches in five other major cities.
Alfred Lighton assumed control of the business in 1962 and remained there until 1992 when major changes in the retail clothing industry and other economic factors caused to permanently close its doors. In addition to being a Thoroughbred horse farm, it was a country retreat where Woolf threw extravagant parties whose guests included Theodore Roosevelt and the infamous Tom Pendergast.
In 1933, Woolf paid $500 for Insco (1928–1939), a son of the great sire Sir Gallahad III. Insco would sire a number of successful stakes winners including two by the mare, Margaret Lawrence.
Lawrin"s jockey was United States. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Eddie Arcaro. His trainer was another Hall of Fame inductee, Ben A. Jones. Lawrin is buried next to his sire at the former, now Prairie Village, Kansas.
Woolf had hired Ben Jones after he had established a reputation of training and breeding horses at the family ranch in Parnell, Missouri.
Membership
Member staff of Governor Hyde, 1920-1924. Deputy police commissioner of Kansas City, 1922-1924. Member Jackson County (Missouri) Park Board Director American Royal Live Stock Show.
Vice president
Menorah Hospital. Member National Association Retail Clothiers and Furnishers, Kansas City Chamber of C (directory). Clubs: Kansas City Athletic, Oakwood Country.