The Family of Wolf Dov Hootstein came from Augustow, Suwalki, a county in Poland, formerly Russia. There are numerous descendants of this family living in the US actually.
You may want to read about the history of jewish People in Suwalki on jewishgen:
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/suwalki/history.htm
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