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 HERRIN<JSHAVS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 1834, in New York City. He donated over hundred tlioiHim*! <lollart» to the M. Stephen's college of Annaiuhile, N.V. lie erected ii eliureli on lie west side of C'en tral Park tit n cost of not less than one

New York

City.

He was

rector of Christ church of Klizalielh, Mary's* St. N. J.; church of Burlington, N.J.; (Jrace eliurch of Heights; Brooklyn and St. Mark's church

tlirce

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hundred and lifty thousand dollars. Me was the author of Clirist the Tatron nf All True Kdueation; and The IJhrary a Divine liild. lie died March 4, 1H97, on iJekvl Island,

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Hoffman, Charles Fenno, author, poet, was born in 180t> in New York City. He was a popular poet and story writer of N«>w York city and from 1S.'»0 lived in ahsolute retirement hv reason of mental disorder. He exeelled as a song



The Myrtle and Steel. He was the author <»f A Winter in the West: Wild Seenes in the

Forest and

Prairie: The Vigil of Other P«Hnis; The Keho. or Hor-

Kaith, and rowe«| Nolfs

for Home Cireulation: and Calendar and Other Po^nis; tirays-

I.«ve*s laer. 1

a

novel. Pa.

lai risliui

He

died

dune

7,

18S4,'in

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Hoffman, Mrs. Clara Cleghorne, ediieator.

was hum .Ian. 18. I8:{ was el-cted n'eordiiig see retary of the National woman's christian temperance union. She has lceliire2. in IMatishurg, N.Y.

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Hoffman, Frederick Ludwig, statiatieinn, author, was born May 2, 18(i."». in (Jerman)*. He was educated ill the public and private schools of Cermanv. In 1884 87 he followed commercial pur suits in the I'nite*! States; and in 1887 ••ntered the service of the Metropolitan life insurance company of New York. Sinw 1894 he has been state*

1882

the states of the Cnion. an<l in (Jreat Britain an<l Canada. Htimphri-y Cleghorne, her father, kept an underground railway sta lion for ruuiiway slaves fl.-eing to Canada. In 18(51 she married Dr. floswin HolTman. a noted fJerman physician of Kansas Cily. Hoffman, David, edtieator. lawyer, author, was horn Dee. 25. 1784, in Baltimore, Md. He was prr»fessor of law in the university of Maryland. He was the author of A CoursM of Legal Study: Legal Outlines; Legal Hints: Miscellamous Thoughts on Men an4. in New* York City. Hoffman, David Bancroft, physician, surgeon, aufiior. was horn .Inly 2."). ia.*J7. in Bainhridge. N. Y. During tiie civil war he s<'rvrd as field surgeon. In 18(58 he was a presi<|ent eie-7-> Cnited .States connnissioner in hankruptcy. He is the author of Medical History of San Ditgo County. California.

Hoffman.

Eugene

Augustus,

March

idergyman. 21,

1820. in

tine pile of

iiiiinilicence of hiiiLself

statistician

the Missonri

dean, author, uas horn

oHice many professorships liave been enhuildings, includ-



writer, his Ix-ht known son;;s heing. Sparkling and Bright and

11c

IMiiladelphia.

has been dean of tin* theologica I General of Newseminary York City since I87'.L During his tenure of

(!n.

Prudential

to

tin*

insurance

company

of .America, with }ieadi|uarters in Newark, N.J. He is a fellow of the Koyal .statistical .society; n meniU-r of the Anier ican stjite statistical association: and n

meniher of the American ceonomioal a.s80He is the author of Sanitary Conthe Tenements (»f Trinity Church, New York; Tornadoes and Tornado Insurance; The Race Traits and Temh-ncies of the American Negro; History of the Prudential Insurance Company of America: Insurance Handbook and Reference Guide; and other works. Hoffman, Frank Sargent, educator, aiiIhor. was horn Feb. <), IS.Vi. in Sliebovgaii Falls, Wis, Tn 187(i he graduated witii tho degree of Ph.D. from cialion.

<lition of

.Amherst college; received the dt'gree of

B.D.

from

Yale

col-

lege; and studied in Germany. In ISaS ^.l he was instructor in

philosophy

at

the

Wcli'van nniversitj'; ami since LSSfi has been profi'ssor of phi I nsojiliy

Union

col

lege

of

Schenectady.

N.Y.

He

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a member