Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: T.J. Hoffman ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, November 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views of county seats, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881 p. 1149 T.J. Hoffman, mechanic in Thompson & Hayward's Carriage Works. Mr. Hoffman was born at Rome Center, Mich., Aug. 11, 1848; he lived there until he was nineteen years of age, he then went to St. Louis, Mo.; there he attended school about six years in all; from there he went to Hannibal, Mo. He worked at his trade eighteen months, then he went to Oshkosh; he worked at cabinet-work about three years and a half, then engaged in Thompson & Hayward's Carriage Works, April, 1881. He was married in Adrian, Mich., May 15, 1875, to Miss Lizzie Hoffman; she was born in Ida, Mich. January, 1847.