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According to biographies supplied by the Columbus Foundation and the Columbus Dispatch newspaper founder Robert F. Wolfe arrived in Columbus Ohio in 1888 and found work as a shoemaker eventually beginning the Wolfe Brothers Shoe Company. In 1903 he bought the Ohio State Journal with his brother Harry P. Wolfe. In 1905 they acquired the Columbus Dispatch. Robert F. Wolfe was publisher of the Journal and the Dispatch until his death in 1927.