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Colleges and Seminaries; trustee of St. Stephen's college, Aniiandale, N.Y.; benefactor of the college library and college to the extent of $'200,000. founder of the lIolTman library lectures, and cliief pastor of tiie institution. Hei)resented a library building to the A. T. Porter institute, Cliarleston. S.C., and in 1896 sent his check for $.>0.000 to Sewanee, a jjresent to the University of the South, lie was a trustee of Ilobart col- lege, 1893-97: liouorary chancellor, 1894-97, and presented to the college a liberal endowment. He received the honorary degrees D.D., from Rutgers, 1881: D.C.L., from St. Stephen's, 1891, and from the University of the South, 1890, and LL.D. from Hobart. 1893. He was married, Sept. 12, 1854, to Eleanor Louisa, daughter of David M. Vail of New Brunswick, N.J.,and left two sons, Charles Frederick, Jr., and William Mitchell Vail Hoffman, and two daughters. By his will he bequeathed to St. Steplien's college $50,000, the principal part of his large library and his private communion service, and to All Angels' cimrch a remission of all debts due him from it, which made it free from debt. He is the author of: Chri.-it the Patron of True Education (1893), and TJw Library a Divine Child (1893). He died in Jekyl Island, Ga.. March 4, 1897.

HOFFMAN, David, author, was born in Bal- timore. M«l.. Dec. 25, 1784. He was admitted to the bar and became a successful lawj-er. He was professor of law at the University of Maryland from 1817 until 1836, when the chair was abol- ished; travelled in Europe, 1836-38; was a Har- rison presidential elector in 1840 and practised law in Philadelphia, Pa., until 1847. He then went to England, where he obtained material for " Clironicles selected from the Originals of Car- tapliilus, the Wandering Jew." a history of the world from the beginning of the Christian era, which he proposed to issue in six volumes, two volumes of which were completed and published. He returned to the United States in 1853. He re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from the universities of Maryland and Oxford, England, and that of J.U.D. from the University of Gottingen. He was a member of many learned scjcieties. He is the author of: .4 Course of Legal Study (1817, 2d ed.. 1m:{G); Legal Outlines (1836); Miscellaneous Tltouf/hts on Men, Manners and Things by An- thony Gruml)ler of Grnmbleton Hall, Esq. (1837); Viator, or a Peep into My Note-Book (1841); Lt^gal Hints (1846); Moot-Court Decisions and Aln-idguient of Lord Cokes Reports, u-ith Notes (MS. ). Ik' dic-d in New York city, Nov. 11, 18.54.

HOFFflAN, (David) Murray, jurist, was born in New York city. Sept. 29. 1791; eldest son of Martin and Beulali (Murray) Hoirman; grandson of Nicholas and Sarali (Ogden) Hoffman, and of Robert and Mary Murray; great-grandson of

Martinus and Alida (Livingston) Hoffman, and nephew of Lindley Murray, the grammarian. He was graduated from Columbia in 1809 and be- came a lawyer in New Y'ork city. He was known as Daviil Murray Hoffman up to the time of his admission to the bar, when he discarded his first name. He was assistant vice-chancellor of the first circuit, 1839-43, and judge of the superior court of the city, 1853-61. He was an active lay- man in the Protestant Episcopal church. He was twice married: first Dec. 16, 1817, to Frances Amelia, daughter of Jonathan Burrall, cashier of the Bank of America, major in the army of the Revolution and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati; and secondly to JIary Murra}', daughter of William and Susan (Murray) Ogden. He received the degree of LL.D. from Union in 1840 and from Columbia in 1860. He is the author of: Offices and Duties of Masters in Chan- cery (1824); Vice-Chancery Reports (1839-40); Treatise on the Practice of the Court of Chancery (3 vols., 1840-43); Treatise on the Law of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States (1850); Treatise on the Corporation of the City of New York as Owners of Property (1853); Compil- ation of Laws Relating to the City of New York (1853); A Digest of the Statutes and Decisions Relating to the Board of Supervisors of the County of New York (1866); Ecclesiastical Law in the State of Neiv York (1868), and The Rituid Laio of the Church, xvith Notes upon Orders, the Articles and Canons of 1003 (1872). He died at Flushing, N.Y'.. May, 7, 1S78.

HOFFflAN, Eugene Augustus, educator, was born in New York city, Marcli 21, 1829; son of Samuel Verplanck and Glorvina Rossell (Storm) Hoffman; grandson of Harmanus Hoffman and a descendant of M-ar- tin Hoffman, who came to America from Holland about 1657 and settled in Esopus (now Kings- ton), N.Y. The fam- ily removed to New Brunswick, N.J., in 1842, and Eugene en- tered Rutgers college, where he was gradu- ated in 1847. Desir- ing to pursue his .studies furtlier, he entered Harvard, and received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. in

1848

and 1851, respec- partj' under Ag.as-

tively. In 1848 he joined siz to explore the wilderness nortli of Lake Superior, and on returning home entered the General Theological seminary, where he was