• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Mount Prospect Historical Society

#wrap

  • About Us
    • Our Museum
    • History
    • Virtual House Tour
    • Hometown History Video Series
    • Vanished Mount Prospect
    • Guided Tours of Dietrich Friedrichs Historic House Museum
    • Presentations
    • Dollhouse Tours
  • Shop
  • Get Involved
    • Volunteer
    • Become a Member
    • 2025 Junior Camp Counselor Information
  • Donations
    • Donate
    • Donate an Artifact
    • Giving Tuesday
  • Events
    • Afternoon Teas
    • Bessie’s Workbasket
    • Evening Creations
    • MPHS Book Club
    • 2nd Sundays at the Society
    • Youth Programs
  • Newsletters
  • Central School
    • For Educators
    • Donors
  • Research Resources
    • Pandemic Moments 2020-21
      • COVID-19 Survey 2021
      • Contributing to Pandemic Moments
      • Personal Accounts
      • Youthful Insights
      • Contact Release Form web format
      • Contact Release Form in PDF format
      • Pandemic Reflections
    • Mount Prospect Businesses
    • Churches of Mount Prospect
    • Essays on Mount Prospect’s History
    • Houses of Mount Prospect
    • Lost and Found Mount Prospect
    • Mount Prospect People
    • Schools of Mount Prospect
    • Mount Prospect Stories
    • Structural Memorials
    • Other Sources for Research
    • Centennial 2017
    • Neighborhood Walking Tours
  • Contact Us
You are here: Home / People of Mount Prospect / Dr. Alfred Wolfarth

June 13, 2012 By HS Board

Dr. Alfred Wolfarth

Does MPHS have photographs: Misc. Images

Address in Mount Prospect: 113 W. Prospect

Birth Date: Circa 1899

Death Date:

Marriage
Date:

Spouse: Caroline

Children: Robert (maybe others)

Interesting information on life, career, accomplishments

Dr. Wolfarth was the second doctor in Mount Prospect. His first office was in the Busse Building in Busse Ave, directly above Busse-Biermann Hardware. Working with Dr. Louise Koester, the only other doctor in Mount Prospect, a small hospital was set up for car accidents and emergencies. Dr. Wolfarth supplemented his local business by also being the physician on call for the Mount Prospect Fire Department and the Chicago Northwestern Railroad. During World War II, Dr. Wolfarth left Mount Prospect and served as a doctor at an evacuation hospital for troops of General George Patton. In 1957, he and his wife, son and family friend decided to sail across the Atlantic on a 43 foot boat. They sailed from Germany to New York and then up the Hudson and the Erie Canal to the great lakes and Chicago. This traced the path that many settlers in Mount Prospect would have taken. None of the four people on the boat had extensive experience sailing, so this was a pretty brave trip. It took them four months and 8,000 miles.

Filed Under: People of Mount Prospect

Primary Sidebar

On-Line Resources

  • Mount Prospect Businesses
  • Churches of Mount Prospect
  • Essays on Mount Prospect’s History
  • Houses of Mount Prospect
  • Lost and Found Mount Prospect
  • Mount Prospect Stories
  • Mount Prospect People
  • Schools of Mount Prospect
  • Structural Memorials
  • Other Sources for Research

Footer

Mount Prospect Historical Society
101 South Maple Street
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
847.392.9006
info@mtphistory.org

The Mount Prospect Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is committed to preserving the history of Mount Prospect, IL, through artifacts, photographs and both oral and written memories of current and former residents and businesspeople.  On its campus in the heart of the Village, the Society maintains the 1906 Dietrich Friedrichs house museum, the ADA-accessible Dolores Haugh Education Center and the 1896 one-room Central School, which was moved to the museum campus in 2008, renovated and opened to the public in 2017, the 100-year anniversary of the Village.

Archives

Copyright © 2025. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED · Mount Prospect Historical Society Log in