Saguache County CO Archives Biographies.....Hoffman, George Franklin January 3, 1857 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Although a native of Kentucky, where he remained until he was twenty-one

years old, and was warmly attached to his native state, George F. Hoffman, of

Saguache county, has been a resident of Colorado nearly one-half of his life,

and is now as ardently devoted to the state of his adoption as he ever was to

that of his nativity.  Coming into the world with a somewhat feeble constitution

and uncertain health, his physical condition drove him abroad from the home of

his parents when a young man, and through what seemed a hardship then, and what

involved additional hardships afterward, found opportunities for substantial

advancement in a worldly way as well as great vigor of body and enlarged

enjoyment of life.  Mr. Hoffman was born on January 3, 1857, at Covington,

Kenton county, Kentucky, and is the son of Henry and Jane Hoffman, the former a

native of the same place as himself and the latter of Dayton, Ohio.  The son

received a common-school education, which has been abundantly supplemented by

the lessons of a wide and varied experience and good general reading since he

left school, so that he is now a well informed and reflective man, with a rich

and ready fund of general practical information.  His parents were prosperous

farmers, and their estate offered him a good chance for substantial gains in the

neighborhood of his home.  But soon after reaching his majority, he was obliged

to seek safety for his health in a different climate, and on the 1st day of

March, 1878, he went to Illinois, where he remained until the 4th day of July

next ensuing.  He then returned home, but two years later found himself under

the necessity of again going elsewhere on account of his health, and on the 1st

day of March, 1880, arrived at Parsons, Labette county, Kansas.  Two years later

he left this place for Rhea Springs, Rhea county, Tennessee.  On April 3, 1888,

he arrived at Del Norte, Colorado, and since then he has been a resident of this

state.  He came hither in search of renewed health and has remained to engage in

and carry on a profitable business, making his way to both ends steadily and

with gratifying results worthy of almost any sacrifice of sentiment and home

feeling.  He has an excellent ranch of one hundred and sixty acres twenty-two

miles southeast of the town of Saguache.  He has improved his ranch with good

buildings, fences and other needs, and by assiduous efforts, in which he has

flourished physically, and at the same time made himself one of the most useful

and highly respected citizens of this section of the state.  Essentially a

self-made man, his success is the result of his own foresight, industry and

business capacity, and the esteem in which he is held is the natural consequence

of his honorable manhood, correct business methods, generous disposition and

public-spirit and breadth of view in reference to methods of promoting the

enduring welfare of the county and its people.  In public affairs he is not

bound by party ties, but looks ever to the best results for the public interests

involved, but he never slights the duties of citizenship, and always performs

them with intelligence and a stern sense of his liability to his fellow men. 

Fraternally he is connected with the Improved Order of Red Men.  

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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