Biography of 	HOFFMAN, Jno. F., GA., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller November 1998

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JNO. F. HOFFMAN, LOREAUVILLE.--Jno. F. Hoffman was born in Augusta,
Georgia. December, 1841.  He was reared and educated in New Orleans. 
His parents, Chas. F. and Caroline Hoffman, are both natives of
Baltimore, Maryland.

The subject of this sketch is one of a family of eight children, five of
whom are living:  C. F.,  Jno. F.,  Wilhelmine,  Inez and  Rosalie.  Mr.
Hoffman, during the war, was in service from 1862 until the fall of
Vicksburg, in the Thirtieth Louisiana Regiment.  He was captured near
Vicksburg and paroled.  After the war he removed to Southern Illinois,
where he remained about eighteen years and engaged in fruit nursing.

In 1875, he married Miss Ellen Tweedy, a native of Illinois.  She died
in 1880, leaving one son and two daughters:  Carrie,  Charlie and 
Maggie.  Mr. Hoffman afterward married Miss Nora Smith, a native of
Union county, Illinois, whose parents were among the pioneer settlers of
the State.  In 1884 Mr. Hoffman removed to Iberia parish and took charge
of Caroline plantation, formerly known as St. Rose de Lima, which had
been purchased by his brother, C. E. Hoffman, formerly a private banker
of New Orleans, residing now in New York.  The place under Mr. Hoffman's
good management has been greatly improved.  Formerly it was one of the
finest plantations in Southwest Louisiana, but when Mr. Hoffman took
charge of it, it was in a rather dilapidated condition.  It is situated
five miles East of Loreauville, on Lake Fausse Point, formerly known as
Dauterive Lake, from an earlier owner of the plantation.  The soil is of
unusual fertility, and the plantation on the whole is as fine as can be
found in this section.  Mr. Hoffman cultivates on it chiefly cane, which
he manufactures into sugar and molasses in a large sugar house on the
place.

There is a large section of the most fertile land in the world in this
region known as "Fausse Point."

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 113-114.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.