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  #1 Bio- Philip A. Hoffman- Charleston   [Joan Wyatt <mewyatt@uakron.edu>]



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History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society Inc.
Chicago and New York Volume 11
Page 242
Bio- Philip A. Holman, Charleston


   Philip A. Holman is well known in Charleston business circles, and
has recently helped organize and become an executive official in one of
the city's prosperous wholesale enterprises.
   He was born, reared and educated at St. Agnes Cornwall, England, and
came to America about the time he reached his majority, in 1908. He
first located in Michigan, and for several years was assistant to
receivers of national banks under the U.S. Comptroller of the currency.
His home has been in Charleston since 1915. As an American citizen he
answered the call to service at the time of the war with Germany, was
trained in Camp Sherman, and was on duty in Charleston as an aide to the
disbursing officer in this city.
   Mr. Hoffman was the active organizer and is now treasurer of the
Superior Drug Co., wholesale, incorporated for $225,000, and which
opened for business in Charleston in the latter part of March, 1922. The
other offices of the corporation are Dr. H.H. Kessel, president, Dr.
Sylvain Goffaux, vice president, and C.H. Casto, secretary.
   This company has its headquarters at 905 Virginia St. in the heart of
the wholesale district, and its building, a four-story and basement
modern brick structure, is ideally fitted for the purposes. The company
started out under most favorable auspices and with a volume of business
that assures its growing contact and trade with the great territory
surrounding Charleston. Mr. Hoffman is a thirty-second degree Scottish
Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He also
holds membership in the Kiwanis Club. He married Miss Jennie Lind
Hodges, of Louisville, Kentucky.