BIO:  Samuel M. Hoff, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Manchester Township, Pg 137

SAMUEL M. HOFF, the founder of Mt. Wolf village, and the son of Henry and Mary 
(Moul) Hoff, of this township, was born February 16, 1838, and was reared on his 
father’s farm.  December 5, 1851, he married Sarah, daughter of George and Leah 
(Shindle) Lichtenberger, of Fairview Township, the result of the marriage being 
three children:  Carlton L., George L. and an infant (deceased).  The father of 
our subject, Henry Hoff, died in October, 1884, at the advanced age of eighty-
nine years, a sincere member of the United Brethren Church of Mt. Wolf, of which 
he has always been a liberal supporter.