Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Hofmann, Bernhard 1843 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

BERNHARD HOFMANN.

Bernhard Hofmann, a capitalist of Ottumwa, which city has been his home for more
than four decades, is still engaged in the buying and selling of real estate and
enjoys an enviable reputation in business circles here. His birth occurred in
Baden, Germany, on the 29th of October, 1843, his parents being Bernhard and
Julianna (Berg) Hofmann, both of whom passed away in that country. They had four
children, as follows: Conrad, who still resides in the fatherland; Bernhard, of
this review; Phillip, who is now deceased, and Rachel, who died in Germany.

Bernhard Hofmann acquired his education in the village schools of his native
land and after putting aside his text-books in 1860 learned the trade of a
cooper and brewer. He worked at that occupation for eight years and on the
expiration of that period emigrated to the United States, locating first in New
York, where he was employed for one month. Subsequently he resided in Chicago
for four years, and in 1872 came to Ottumwa, Iowa, being here employed as
foreman by the Bower & Schaub Brewery Company for two years. At the end of that
time he embarked in the brewing business on his own account, being thus
continuously and successfully engaged until 1890. From that time to the present,
covering nearly a quarter of a century, he has given his attention to the buying
and selling of real estate. In 1893 he erected the Hofmann building, which he
still owns, and which is one of the most modern office buildings in Ottumwa. He
owns six pieces of business property and also a number of dwellings and has long
been numbered among the prosperous and representative men of his city.

On the 15th of November, 1874, Mr. Hofmann was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary
Rosina Schlagater, a native of New York, and a daughter of Domenick Schlagater,
who has now attained the venerable age of ninety-three years and makes his home
with our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Hofmann have six children, as follows: Carrie,
who gave her hand in marriage to Fred Dings, of Ottumwa; Frank, who is a
druggist, and has one child; Dora, the wife of Monroe Thompson of Tacoma,
Washington; Wilhelmina, who is employed in the library; Ralph, who resides in
California, and has a son and daughter; and George, who makes his home in Salt
Lake City, and has two daughters. The religious faith of the family is that of
the Episcopal church. In his political views Mr. Hofmann is a democrat. The hope
that led him to leave his native country and seek a home in the new world has
been fulfilled, for he has won both friends and fortune in the land of the free
and now in the evening of life can look back upon a well spent, honorable and
useful career.


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Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914

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