Public Service:
DeWolfe served as Charlotte's Mayor from 1880 until 1883.

• The first cotton mill in the city opened at Sixth and Graham streets in 1881. It employed 70 workers, mostly women, who cleaned, spun and wove cotton thread into cloth.
• The first city tax-supported grade school opened in 1882. This event began the modern school system.
• Charlotte's first school for black students opened in the basement of an Episcopal Church.