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tinuing until 1885 At that time he established the Omaha Evening World, and in 1889 he purchased the Morning Herald, consolidating it with the Evening World as the Omaha World Herald.
From 1903-05 and 1907-11 he represented the second Nebraska district in the 58th, 60th and 61st congresses of the United State. During 1911-17 and 1917-23 he was United States senator, and was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930. He is a Democrat. Residence: Omaha.
Nova Elizabeth Hite
Nova Elizabeth Hite, former educator in the schools of Nuckolls County, Nebraska, is active in civic affairs at Nelson today. She was born at Nelson, October 27, 1888, the daughter of Valorus Arbie Thomas and Helena Grace (Coup) Thomas. (See Nebraskana). Her father, who is a physician, was born at Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1856, of Scotch-Irish, Welsh and German ancestry. Her mother, who was born at Woodcock, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1864, and died at Nelson, September 25, 1929, was past organizer of the P. E. O., and served as Past Worthy Matron of the Order of Eastern Star. She was a member of the Nelson Woman's Club, and before her marriage was a teacher in the public schools of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and after coming to Nebraska, taught in the public schools at Nelson.
Mrs. Hite was graduated from the Nelson High School in 1905, received the A. B. degree at Nebraska University in 1911, where she was a member of the Nebraska Union Literary Society. She also received an A. B. degree from Nebraska Wesleyan. She was valedictorian of the graduating class in high school. She has held the following positions in educational activity; high school teacher at Blue Hill, Nebraska, 1911-12; principal of the high school at Nelson, 1912-13; principal of the high school at Bladen, Nebraska, 1913-14; rural school teacher, 1915-16, at which time she was holding a claim in Grant County, which she still retains.
She is an active member of the P. E. O. and one of its local past presidents; Order of Eastern Star, of which she is past worthy matron; is affiliated with the Nelson Methodist Episcopal Church, and holds membership in the Nelson Woman's Club. Mrs. Hite's political affiliation is with the Democratic party.
On December 26, 1917, she was married to Henry Herbert Hite at Nelson. Mr. Hite, who is district agent of the Bankers Life Company, was born at Wilber, Nebraska, March 26, 1882. They have two children; Carmen Grace, born July 16, 1920; and Mariah Elizabeth, born October 2, 1921. Residence: Nelson.
Walter Van Fleet Hoagland
Walter Van Fleet Hoagland, prominent, Lincoln County lawyer, was born in Bunker Hill, Illinios, November 30, 1870, and is the son of Joseph and Marie Louise (Waples) Hoagland. He is descended from Dirak Jansen Hoagland, who came from Holland to New Netherlands in 1657, and on August 8, 1662, married Annetje Hansen Bergen, the daughter of Saraha Repelji Bergen, the first white woman born in New York.
Mr. Hoagland came to Lincoln, Nebraska, from Bunker Hill, Illinois, in 1873, and moved to North Platte in 1884. He attended the Lincoln and North Platte Public schools, and received the Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nebraska in 1895. His Bachelor of Laws degree was awarded by the same university in 1896. Thereafter until 1920 Mr. Hoagland was in partnership with his father in the practice of law with the firm name of Hoagland and Hoagland, which in 1920, when his father died, became Hoagland and Carr. During the year 1931 the firm name was changed to Hoagland, Carr, and Hoagland by admission of his son, Robert V. Hoagland which partnership still continues.
Among Mr. Hoagland's professional memberships are the American Bar Association, the Nebraska State Bar Association, and the Western Nebraska Bar Association of which he was president in 1922. He is a member of all branches of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1917 he was grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Nebraska and since then to the present time has representeed (sic) Nebraska in the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, the supreme legislative organization of the fraternity. During 1921 he was department commander of Nebraska Patriarchs Militant of the Odd Fellows. He is a life member of the Elks, a member of the Sons of Veterans, and is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. His chief recreation is golf.
A Republican, Mr. Hoagland served as state senator, 1911-1915, 1919-1922, and in 1898 upon the passage of the National Bankruptcy Act, Mr. Hoagland was appointed Referee in Bankruptcy for Nebraska by Judge William H. Munger at Omaha and is still serving.
On August 17, 1898, he was married to Hattie Scott Singleton at North Platte. She was born at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1872. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church, the P. E. O. Sisterhood, the Rebekahs, of which she was president of the state assembly of Nebraska in 1917. She is also president of the I. A. P. M. of Nebraska. They have two children living, Eva, born November 25, 1900; and Robert, born May 7, 1905. One daughter, Marie, born August 5, 1889, died June 30, 1916. The children are both graduates of the University of Nebraska. Eva is director of kindergarten work in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, school system. Robert graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1930. Residence: North Platte.
William Wyman Hoagland
In the early spring of 1861, when Nebraska was a territory crisscrossed by buffalo tracks, George T. Hoagland and his son, George Appleton Hoagland, founded the first lumber business in Omaha, the then capital city. George Appleton Hoagland was born at Boonville, Missouri, May 20, 1843, He and his father came to Nebraska, where they soon built up a reputation for honesty and integrity which continues to this day. Of historical note is the following excerpt from an article by William Wyman Hoagland, grandson of the original founder of the lumber business.
"Pioneers with prairie schooners came from seventy and eighty miles around to haul lumber for their first Nebraska homes ... Nebraska with its present boundaries was admitted to statehood in 1867, and Lincoln was made the capital, but Omaha remained the chief commercial center. The construction of the Union Pacific Railroad across the continent boomed business... With the completion of the Union Pacific in 1869 homesteaders and settlers thronged to Nebraska. In 1871 we established the first wholesale lumber business with branch yards throughout the state... Our lumber has helped build a majority of Nebraska's public buildings, churches, schools and homes."
George Appleton Hoagland in these early days married Ianthe Clementina Wyman, a native of Madison, Wisconsin, born April 20, 1842. She died at Omaha, February 7, 1919. To their union was born on February 4, 1870, William Wyman Hoagland. Mrs. Hoagland was active in charitable and civic work, and founded the Emma Hoagland Flower Mission at Omaha. William W. Hoagland was educated in the public schools of Omaha, and at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire.
He was married to Florence Jessie Boothroyd at Loveland, Colorado, July 2, 1902. Mrs. Hoagland was born near Fort Collins, Colorado, June 2, 1873, and is of English descent. There are three children: Helen Edith, born May 11, 1903, who married Loring Elliott; Emma Ianthe,
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born December 11, 1904, who married John Reed; and William B., born August 22, 1906, who is unmarried.
At the close of his school days William W. Hoagland entered the lumber business of his father, who in addition operated an investment business and was the builder of the Hoagland Block at 16th and Howard Streets and a warehouse at 9th and Douglas Streets. Upon the death of his father he took over the business, which is still operated under the trade name of George A. Hoagland and Company.
Mr. Hoagland is a Congregationalist. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Omaha Real Estate Board, the Nebraska Historical Society and the Nebraskana Society. His clubs are the Happy Hollow country club and the Omaha Athletic Club. His favorite sport is baseball. (Deceased). (Photograph on Page 556).
John Hoaglund
In the Spring of 1868, John M. Hoaglund and Sara (Vastling) Hoaglund, his wife, with their two children emigrated from Sweden to America. John M. Hoaglund, was born at Noravi, Ostergotland, Sweden, April 1, 1831, while his wife was born at Tiderssum, Ostergotlund, April 12, 1824. John Hoaglund, the son, was born in Noravi, September 15, 1861,
Upon reaching Gottenborg, where he was to purchase tickets for the family's passage to America, John Hoaglund was informed that he had not sufficient passage money to get to Burlington, Iowa, his destination, but that he could reach Jamestown, New York, where there was a Swedish settlement. The sea voyage was sixteen days, and later the mother became so ill that she was unconscious when the emmigrant train reached Jamestown. The family had just two dollars and a half in American money, and the railroad agent, being desirous of getting them off his hands, halted a one-horse dray and had the driver go after the Swedish Methodist minister.
When the minister was informed that the family had no relatives in that part of the country, he resolved to do his best for them and securing a dray, put the mother and children and their home made trunk into it and drove them up to the edge of town where there was an old vacant house. The mother continued ill part of the summer, and the father went to work on the railroad for $2.00 a day. John Hoaglund, the subject of this sketch, then seven years old, was a water boy for the men, while his mother, when she recovered, cooked for twenty-eight of them. Due to the fact that the contractor ran away with the pay roll, Mr. Hoaglund received no wages for his last two month's work. When winter weather made railroad work impossible, the father secured a job of wood cutting, while the mother took in boarders.
The following summer all worked for the railroad again, and in the fall the father had $300.00 saved. Going eighteen miles out of Jamestown he found a cheap farm which he purchased, making a down payment of $300.00. There they farmed until the Spring of 1878, when they sold out and came to what is known as the Looking Glass, Nebraska. There mail was received twice a week, and Columbus was the nearest railroad town, forty-five miles away.
John Hoaglund, Senior, purchased railroad land, a half section a year before the family moved to Nebraska, at $2.75 an acre. In spite of the low price, however, they were forced to sell the only cow they had to make the small payment on a quarter section and to allow the railroad company to take back one quarter. Mr. Hoagand recalls selling eggs for four cents, butter for three cents, and doing without coffee entirely. Until he reached 20 Mr. Hoagland wore split leather boots. At that time he purchased his first pair of overshoes.
At first, in Nebraska, the family lived in a sod house, and built a sod barn. Drinking water was carried from the home of a neighbor eighty rods away. There was bad luck with the horses, and one of the best was lost when helping a neighbor thresh. The first seven years in Nebraska $1400 was used for the purchase of horses.
The baby sister died on May 5, 1883, while they still lived in the sod house, but finally things improved and at the present time Mr. Hoaglund lives in one of the most comfortable homes in Newman Grove, and is the owner of 700 acres of Nebraska land. His father died at Newman Grove, on January 7, 1921, and his mother also died at Newman Grove, November 4, 1917.
On June 6, 1894, Mr. Hoaglnnd was married to Hilda Augusta Peterson at Looking Glass, Nebraska. She was a native of Kastlosa, Oland, Sweden, daughter of Jonas and Johanna Peterson. Her brother, Chancy A., was a prominent farmer in Platte County until his death on December 18, 1924. To them were born five children, four of whom are living: Edith, born November 3, 1894, married Victor Larson; Alice, born February 25, 1896, married Dr. Lloyd C. Blockman; Ethel, born September 5, 1897; Ada, born March 21, 1900, who died April 29, 1913; and John C., born September 15, 1903. The two oldest girls received a high school education, while the other two living children were graduated from the University of Nebraska. Ethel is a successful commercial teacher. John served two years as assistant secretary of a Young Men's Christian Association, was four and a half years in the Newman Grove Postoffice, and is now deputy treasurer of Madison County.
During the World War period Mr. Hoaglund's quota for Liberty bonds was placed, perhaps unjustly, at $5,000.00, and although he had to borrow the money, he purchased that amount. Educating his children also depleted his working capital, and his taxes became larger than his income. However, through the sale of two farms one at $100 and the other at $93 per acre, he readjusted himself. He believes now that in a few more years he will have his land entirely free from indebtedness.
Recently Mr. Hoaglund was elected to life membership in the Nebraskana Society in recognition of his work for the advancement of his community and state. Residence: Newman Grove. (Photograph in Album).
NOTE: For son-in-law, see BLACKMAN in this book.
Matt Charles Hobza
Born at Vroketniel, Moravia, February 9, 1873, Matt Charles Hobza is the son of Frank Hobza and Antonia (Rombosek) Hobza. His father was born at Vroketniel, July 20, 1833, and died at Wahoo, Nebraska, July 14, 1912. His mother was born at Vroketniel, May 20, 1839, and died at Wahoo, Saunders County, Nebraska, June 20, 1921.
Matt Hobsa attended public schools in Czchecoslovakia (sic). On October 24, 1899, at Cedar Hill, Nebraska, he was united in marriage with Anne Agnes Sloup. She was born at Prague, Nebraska, June 24, 1881. To this union were born six children: Sister M. Alexia, December 31, 1900; Frank, July 7, 1902; Mary, February 24, 1904; Christine, July 24, 1905; Anne, January 14, 1907, and Ambrose, November 24, 1909. Sister Alexia is a nun of the Notre Dame Order, Frank is a mechanic, Christine is a stenographer, Anne is a teacher, and Ambrose attends College.
Mr. Hobza is affiliated with the St. Wenceslous Catholic Church. He was a member of the Red Cross during the World War. He holds membership in the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Workmen Lodge. Reading and the farm are his chief interests. Residence: Wahoo.
Clyde Hanford Hodges
Clyde Hanford Hodges, postmaster at Superior, was born at Weldon, Illinois, September 18, 1875. He is the son of William and Sarah Catherine (Bosserman) Hodges. His father was born at Sandusky, Ohio, September 6, 1836, of Scotch-Irish descent, and died at Los Angeles, August 26, 1917. He was a retired farmer at
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the time of his death. Sarah Catherine Bosserman was born in Licking County, Ohio, May 21, 1844, and died at Superior, in February 1910. She was of Welch extraction.
Educated first in the rural schools of Illinois, Clyde Hanford Hodges attended Illinois State Normal School, and was graduated from Brown's Business College in May, 1893. A teacher for three years, he was in the general mercantile business twenty years, and is now postmaster. He is a Republican, and served on the Superior City Council two years.
On May 22, 1901, Mr. Hodges was married to Clara Everts at Trenton, Iowa. Mrs. Hodges, who was born at Trenton, March 13, 1875, traces her ancestry to Reverend Daniel Everts, officer in the Revolution, and Colonel Aranthus Everts, of the War of 1812. There are three children: Christine, born October 2, 1905, who married Robert L. Jackson; Hanford, born March 31, 1907; and Lawrence, born August 26, 1909.
Mr. Hodges was secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association at Great Lakes Station for a period of six months during the World War. He is a member of the Methodist Church, the Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the Social Study Club and the Masons, He is worthy patron of the Eastern Star at present. His favorite sport is golf. Residence: Superior.
Carl Archibald Hoefer
Carl Archibald Hoefer, physician and surgeon, was born at Friend, Nebraska, September 29, 1895. He is the son of Carl August and Elizabeth (Mullally) Hoefer, the former a blacksmith. Carl August Hoefer was born in New York City, July 29, 1867.
Dr. Hoefer was graduated from Friend High School in 1913, received his A. B. in 1921 and his B. S. and M. D. in 1924 from the University of Nebraska. His fraternities are Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Rho Sigma. He is married to Beulah Merriam Martin, who was born at Shenandoah, Iowa, January 13, 1895.
Admitted to practice at Omaha on July 18, 1924, Dr. Hoefer has since been in general practice. During 1916 he was in Mexican Border Service, and served in the United States Navy during the World War. He is a fellow of the American Medical Association, and a member of the American Legion. Dr. Hoefer is a Catholic. His favorite sport is hunting and his hobby is music. Residence: Wisner.
Ernest Howard Hoel
For nearly forty years Ernest Howard Hoel has been an outstanding figure in the commercial and civic life of Omaha. He was born in Omaha, November 11, 1873, son of Aaron Robison and Catherine Marie (Durham) Hoel, and has lived his entire life in the city.
Aaron Robison Hoel, born in Hamilton County, Ohio, April 11, 1832, came to Omaha by steamboat on the Missouri River on April 28, 1858, with his parents. From 1857 to 1859 he engaged in the hotel business in Omaha, and in 1867 he was elected first sheriff of Douglas County. In 1871 he was made first warden of the Nebraska Penitentiary at Lincoln. His father was Dutch and his mother was Irish. He died at Omaha on August 5, 1912. Catherine Marie Durham was born at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, January 30, 1831, and died at Omaha, December 17, 1899. She was of Scotch descent.
Ernest H. Hoel attended primary schools and Central High School in Omaha. On November 21, 1895, he was united in marriage to Mary Elizabeth McLean, at Omaha. Mrs. Hoel, who is of Scotch and English descent, was born at Bellevue, Nebraska, December 16, 1873. There are two daughters, Lois Marguerite, born September 19, 1896; and Lucille Mary, born February 10, 1899, who married Dewey Anthony Hoadley.
Since he entered business in early manhood, Mr. Hoel has progressed steadily. For seven years he was associated with the Morse-Coe Shoe Company, and for the past thirty years has been connected with the Carpenter Paper Company. He is now vice president and general manager of the foregoing organization, and director of the following: Sioux City Paper Company, Sioux City, Iowa; Messinger Paper Company of Chicago; Carter, Rice & Carpenter Paper Company of Denver; Carpenter Paper Company of Des Moines; the Carpenter Paper Company of Utah; Kansas City Paper House, Kansas City, Missouri. and Federal Envelope Manufacturing Company of Omaha.
Mr. Hoel is a Republican. He is a member and elder in the Dundee Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he was board member 12 years and president two years. He is especially active in commercial and fraternal organizations, and is a member of the following: The Omaha Chamber of Commerce, which he joined in 1905. He served as director and member of the executive committee in 1923, was chairman of the trade extension committee 1923-24, chairman of the traffic bureau in 1928, chairman of the executive committee in 1929, and president in 1930-1931. He belongs to the Greater Omaha Association, the Nebraska Tuberculosis Association, the Red Cross, the National Paper Trade Association, the Rotary Club, the Omaha Auto Club, the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, the Izaak Walton League, the Nebraska State Historical Society, the Nebraskana Society, the Iowa State Traveling Men's Association, and the Travelers Protective Association, of which latter he served as president for the Nebraska division in 1907.
His fraternal organizations include Elks Lodge No. 39; Masonic Lodge No. 1, Nebraska Consistory of the Scottish Rite Masons, Tangier Temple and Shrine. His sports are fishing and golf. His clubs are the Omaha Athletic Club, the Omaha Club and Happy Hollow Country Club. Residence: Omaha.
Alfred Christoper Hoff
The Reverend Alfred Christopher Hoff was born at Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 15, 1897, son of Henry Ernest and Catherine (Schneller) Hoff. His father, who was born in Thuringia, Germany. March 13, 1864, was a clergyman whose death occurred at Omaha, November 25, 1930. His mother was born in Mendota, Illinois, September 25, 1872, of Swiss descent.
Mr. Hoff was graduated from Council Bluffs High School in 1913 and attended Wartburg Pro-Seminary at Waverly, Iowa, 1913-15. From 1915-18 he attended Wartburg Normal College and Wartburg Theological Seminary.
A resident of Nebraska since June 1918, he was ordained at Millard on July 7, and has been pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church since that time. During his pastorate he has constructed a new church and parsonage and his membership has quadrupled in ten years. He is a member of the Omaha Lutheran Ministerial Association and the Nebraskana Society. A lover of golf, his favorite indoor diversion is the reading of history.
On July 10, 1919, his marriage to Laura Anna Pankow was solemnized at Wyoming, Iowa. Mrs. Hoff was formerly a normal and music instructor and is of German and early American ancestry. They have two children, Leon, born April 19, 1920, and Gloria, born January 10, 1929. Residence: Millard.
Ewalt Albert Hoff
Born in Galesburg, Illinois, September 27, 1872, Ewalt Albert Hoff has been a resident of Nebraska since 1880. He is the son of Henry and Louisa (Kramer) Hoff, the former born in Europe, October 31, 1841. Henry Hoff came to America in 1870, and at the time of his death at Leigh, Nebraska, November 1, 1921, was a retired pioneer farmer. His wife, Louis a, was born in
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Frankfort, Germany, August 21, 1843, and died at Omaha, June 12, 1910.
Ewalt A. Hoff attended the public schools of Galesburg, Illinois, and was graduated from the St. Joseph, Missouri High School. He received his A. B. from Midland College at Atchison, Kansas in 1893, and his M. D. from Central Medical College at St. Joseph in 1898. He is a member of the Winn Society.
On June 21, 1911, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Williams at Alda, Nebraska, her birthplace. Mrs. Hoff was born May 11, 1886, and before her marriage was a nurse. She is descended from settlers in America prior to the Revolutionary War, and is eligible to the Daughters of the American Revolution. They have an adopted daughter, Mildred, born February 1, 1910, who is a teacher.
Dr. Hoff has been engaged in the practice of medicine since 1898, and is the author of the following medical articles: The Dangers and the Duties of the Hour in Pregnancy (Nebraska State Medical Journal, December 1926) and Reporting Five Cases of Pernicious Anemia (American Journal of Clinical Medicine). His hobby is research work.
During the World War he participated in the usual civilian activities. He is a member of the American, and Nebraska State Medical Societies, and is a fellow of the American Collage of Physicians. He is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and an Odd Fellow and is a member of the North Bend Chamber of Commerce and the Red Cross. His religious affiliation is with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Residence: North Bend.
Michael Hoffer
Michael Hoffer was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, February 24, 1840, the son of Michael and Mary Ann (Cordiman) Hoffer. Michael Hoffer, Sr., was born at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1816, and died at Stromsburg, Nebraska, September 11, 1891. Mary Ann Hoffer was born at Mercersburg, December 29, 1816, and died at Stromsburg, Nebraska, May 15, 1877.
On March 23, 1865, he was married to Lucinda Emily Fox, at Polo, Illinois. She was born in Frederick County, Maryland, May 15, 1844, and died at Osceola, in 1911. They had ten children: Mary Kate, born December 7, 1866, who is married to Leonidas Hennings; Clara V., born October 9, 1868, who died July 4, 1875; Oliver M.. born March 6, 1870, who died September 17, of the same year; Albertus H., born January 18, 1872, who died on March 19, 1880; Charles E., born December 17, 1873, who is married to Maude Blake; Cora May born June 11, 1876, who is married to L. W. Obrist; Harvey B., born November 9, 1878, who died January 16, 1901; Effa J., born June 18, 1881, who died December 24, 1883; Alfred Clyde, born April 15, 1884, who is married to Stella Dunagan; and Olive Horab, born July 2, 1887, who is married to Erle E. Howley.
Mr. Hoffer has been a resident of Nebraska sixty years. He helped the early pioneers get settled in Nebraska by building houses, digging wells, and making brooms. He also made a honing block, where his neighbors could come and pound their grain.
He entered the Civil War as a Union soldier in October 1861. He was first a private, was promoted to corporal, and later was duty sergeant. He was captured with 11,000 of the Union men under McClellan at Harpers Ferry, and was paroled to Camp Annapolis at Maryland. His patriotic organizations are the Red Cross and the Grand Army of the Republic.
His religious affiliation is with the Church of God, in Maryland and Nebraska. He is ninety one years of age, and while he is unable to read on account of poor eye sight, he is still active in mind and body, and spends a great deal of time in beautifying his home. Residence. Osceola
William Hoffman
Born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 9, 1858, William Hoffman is the son of Augustus and Louisa (Hentz) Hoffman. His father, was a coal miner and farmer, was born at Darmstadt, Germany, March 7, 1831, and died at Berlin, Pennsylvania, in June, 1897; he came to this country in 1857 and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and purchased land which is now a part of the city of Milwaukee. His mother was born at Darmstadt, October 5, 1853, and died at Berlin, July 30, 1920.
Mr. Hoffman moved to eastern Iowa at the age of 18 practically penniless, and after his marriage came to Nebraska where he acquired a quarter section of land south of Meadow Grove; he is now retired in his comfortable town home at Meadow Grove, Nebraska, which is partly furnished with several beautiful pieces of black walnut furniture made by him. He is a member of the Red Cross, attends the Methodist Church, and holds membership in the Nebraskana Society.
His marriage to Alice Ann Eckman occurred at Elwood, Iowa, November 21, 1883. Mrs. Hoffman was born near Elwood, May 8, 1862. The following children were born to their marriage: Myron Russell, February 14, 1885, who married Emma Louise Feldman; Leander William, July 11, 1886, who married Emma Shotwell; Louva, April 16, 1896; and Denton Otho, December 12, 1901. Myron is a farmer at Sacred Heart, Minnesota, Leander a mechanic at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Louva a physician's assistant, associated with Dr. H. L. Kindred at Meadow Grove, Nebraska, and is an accomplished seamstress, and Denton a bookkeeper. Residence: Meadow Grove.
William Robert Hoffman
A resident of Nebraska for the past 51 years, William Robert Hoffman was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, April 4, 1856, the son of William and Mary Ann (Henderson) Hoffman. His father, who was a millwright, was born in Hunterdon County, August 30, 1807, and died at Ludlow, New Jersey, March 2, 1892; he spent the early part of his life making wooden machinery for grist mills; his ancestors were Holland Dutch soldiers in the Revolution. His mother, whose ancestry was Scotch, was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, February 8, 1816, and died at Ludlow, July 4, 1887.
Mr. Hoffman, who has been a furniture dealer at Norfolk, Nebraska, for many years, is prominent in civic and social affairs there. He is a director of the Humane Society, serving as its president at this time, is a member of the Lions Club, and is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Norfolk. His fraternal organizations include Eastern Star; Modern Woodmen of America; and Blue Lodge, Royal Arch,and Knights Templar bodies of the Masons. His hobby is the study of the American Indians of the southwest.
His marriage to Katharine Ege Henderson occurred at Asbury, New Jersey, November 12, 1881. Mrs. Hoffman was born at Landsdown, New Jersey, June 14, 1860. They have two children: Lawrence, born August 24, 1888, who served in the World War as first lieutenant and was a soldier during the Mexican trouble in 1912; and Kathleen, January 22, 1903. Residence: Norfolk.
Leo A. Hoffmann
On December 5, 1880, Leo A. Hoffmann was born at Dubuque, Iowa, the son of Matthew Martin and Mary (Voelker) Hoffmann His father, a mortician, served as county coroner at Dubuque for 14 years, and until his death was extremely active in educational affairs, serving as regent and member of the board of education of Columbia College at Dubuque, and president of the board of education for ten years. His mother, who was known
