Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Hoffman, William 1821 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

WILLIAM HOFFMAN.—Was born near Cologne, Prussia, June 21, 1821, and resided in
his birth place until March 5, 1847; then being twenty-six years old, he started
to seek his fortune in the New World, and therefore emigrated to the United
States, first locating in St. Louis, where he found employment at his trade,
that of tanner, which he had learned in Prussia. In the Spring of 1849, he
started from St. Louis to New Orleans, where he took passage on board the old
Potomac, came around the Horn, and after an unusually long passage of eight
months, arrived in San Francisco January 5, 1850. Having spent a few days in the
metropolis and Sacramento, he came to Contra Costa county, and, in 1855, bought
his present place of eighty-two acres on the border of the town limits of
Martinez; a place he has since changed from the habitation of Indians, snakes
and poison oak to one of the most pleasant homes to be found in Contra Costa.
Here, in 1855, he built the first and only tannery in this county, and has
prosecuted that business ever since.

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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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