THE WOLFE BRUSH COMPANY 
The older generation 
still recollect the display 
for almost a quarter of a 
century on Wood street 
« of two large stuffed boars, 
“Sone white, the other 
black, which held in 
oo their mouths various 
“RARY/ types of brushes. These 
AN symbols of the brush 
trade were displayed by Wolfe Bros. & Co., the pioneer 
brush makers of Pittsburgh, who at one time occupied a 
building whose site is now part of the plot on which the First 
National Bank Building is now erected. 
ESTABLISHED I85]( 
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The Wolfe Brush Co. originated in 1851 by David Stew- 
art, who located on Fifth street, later locating on Liberty 
avenue, near Sixth street. 
In 1883 after the death of David Stewart the business 
was purchased by Wolfe, Patton & Co. and moved to 
514 Wood Street. Later the firm name changed to Wolfe 
Bros. & Co., and with the purchase of the Walker Brush 
Co., of Franklin, Pa., became Wolfe, Walker & Co., by 
which name it was known until the Company incorporated 
in 1903 as the Wolfe Brush Co., shortly thereafter moving to 
511 Wood street, where a retail business in brushes of all 
kinds, including barber supplies, was conducted, the fac- 
tory being located in a large building at Fifteenth and Bing- 
ham streets, South Side. 
In 1912 the business was reorganized by the present 
incorporation and the retail business was discontinued. 
The factory was moved to the North Side, eventually occu- 
pying for its quarters the large site on Pennsylvania avenue 
and Bidwell street, where high grade paint brushes are 
made, together with a complete line of industrial brushes. 
The firm makes a specialty of manufacturing speci- 
fication brushes and numbers among its customers the large