BIO:  J. O. HOFFMAN, 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, Carroll Township, Pg 85

J. O. HOFFMAN, M. D., was born in York County, August 21, 1854, and until 1871 
assisted on the home farm and attended the district school.  From 1871 to 1872 he 
attended select schools, and taught alternately; from 1872 to 1873 he worked in 
his father’s mill; from the summer of 1873 to the summer of 1875 he attended 
various seminaries and taught school, working the ensuing winter in the mill; 
from the summer of 1876 to 1880, he was a student in the Millersville State 
Normal School, teaching at various points in the meantime.  In the spring of 1880 
he began reading medicine under Dr. J. H. Marsden, of York Springs, author of 
Marsden’s “Midwifery,” editor of the obstetrical department of the Homœpathic 
Observer, and an authority in obstetrics.  From 1880 to 1883 our subject attended 
three courses of medical lectures of nine months each, and during the last two 
years was assistant in the homœpathic hospital of the university.  June 28, 1883, 
he was graduated with the degree of M. D. from the University of Michigan, and in 
October following located at Dillsburg, where he has established a satisfactory 
practice and makes a specialty of eye and ear treatment.  September 25, 1884, he 
married Miss Kate Klugh, of Dillsburg.