BIO:  George W. HOFFMAN, Mountjoy Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 484

GEORGE W. HOFFMAN, farmer, P. O. Two Taverns, was born February 22, 1838, in 
Mountpleasant Township, this county.  His father, George Hoffman, was born 
November 20, 1805, in Straban Township, this county, a son of Frederick Hoffman, 
who was born in 1773; married Miss Catharine Gilbert, to whom were born twelve 
children.  His father, Nickolas J. Hoffman, was born in Germany December 18, 
1700.  George Hoffman married Lydia Stock, a native of Lancaster County, Penn., 
now nearly seventy-seven years old, and the only survivor of a family of fifteen 
children, all of whom grew up, married and were farmers.  George Hoffman 
departed this life in Mountjoy Township in the fall of 1885, aged nearly 
seventy-nine years.  To George and Lydia Hoffman were born seven children:  
Josiah (deceased), Catharine, Nancy, George W., Lydia, Margaret A. and Lucy A. 
B.  George W. Hoffman was educated near home, but is principally self-educated.  
In early life he taught for eight winters, four of which were in the school he 
had attended in his boyhood in this township; but, his health failing, he had to 
give up teaching, and in March, 1865, left the school-room with part of a term 
untaught, and enlisted in the Union Army and served as private in the One 
Hundred and First Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, during the 
remainder of the war; since when he has been farming, and has now 120 acres of 
land in this township, composed of two small farms.  He was married here in 
October, 1861, to Miss Agnes Sheeley, a native of the county, daughter of Andrew 
Sheeley.  Our subject and wife are members of the Reformed Church, in which he 
has been a deacon for ten years.  He has been a member of church since he was 
eighteen years old.  Politically he was a Republican, and has filled different 
offices of trust in the township, and now he advocates Prohibition.