In 1888 San Antonio started paving Main and Alamo plazas. French recognized Wulff's civic-minded generosity by appointing him the first city park commissioner in 1885. During two terms (1875–79) as alderman from the predominantly German Ward 4, Wulff planted trees, shrubs, and flowers on various public plazas at his own expense. In 1870 he constructed the "castle" on King William Street (see ANTON WULFF HOUSE) a dedicated gardener, he landscaped the grounds elaborately with flowers, decorative shrubs, and large cacti. Upon his return to San Antonio Wulff acted as agent for the San Antonio-Chihuahua City stage line and operated a profitable wagontrain between the two cities.
Wulff moved to Monterrey and in 1863 took his family to Hamburg, where they remained until near the end of the Civil War. An unsuccessful six-man attempt to kidnap Wulff on October 16 resulted in the deaths of two Confederates and one Mexican. Baylor at El Paso declared Wulff a spy and ordered that he be enticed into Texas and arrested. He supplied both United States and Confederate garrisons at Fort Davis with hay and corn. In 1857, possibly because of rising anti-German and pro-secession sentiment in San Antonio, Wulff moved his family and business to the Mexican side of the Rio Grande at Presidio del Norte, where he started a mercantile business. He moved back to San Antonio and, while retaining his Fredericksburg business, opened additional stores in Coke County, Laredo, and at Presidio del Norte. Wulff received his United States citizenship in 1854, and that year he began expanding his business activity. In November 1852 Wulff traveled to San Antonio and married María Guadalupe Olivarri, a descendant of the Leal family, who came to San Antonio in 1731 from the Canary Islands. In January 1852 he went to Fredericksburg and opened a dry-goods business with Sweet, who remained in San Antonio. Wulff bettered his fortunes by working at a salary of thirty dollars a month for Joseph Landa on Main Plaza.
Sweet, who soon started a retail business. His money gone, he managed to reach San Antonio, where he worked as a clerk for five dollars a month a fellow clerk was James R. Unable to find a job there or in Cincinnati, he traveled down the Ohio River to the Mississippi and on to New Orleans. Wulff left Hamburg and took a sailing ship to the United States on June 17, 1848, arriving in New York on August 22. Anton Friedrich Wulff, businessman and civic leader, was born in 1822 in Hamburg, Germany.
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