Augustus Benjamin Wolvin (1857-1932) was an American shipping magnate.

He and his wife took over raising his younger siblings and he retired from serving as a captain, and worked as a produce merchant in Pecatonica.

In 1888, when his younger siblings were on their own, he and his wife moved to Duluth, Minnesota, where he founded LaSalle and Wolvin a shipping agent firm.

In 1995 Wolvin was encouraged by James Henry Hoyt a representative of American Steel and Wire Company encouraged Wolvin to use his experience in shipping to assemble and manage a fleet of vessels to serve the mining industry.

In 1896 Wolvin and other Duluth business men acquired the financially troubled Inman Towing Company.