An excerpt from
Portrait & Biographical Album of Mahaska Co., Iowa, 1887
".......Daniel Hoffman, father.....was born at Woodstock, Shenandoah Co., Va., Jan. 18, 1790. He learned the trade of gun- smith with his father, and removed with the family to Ross County, Ohio, in 1806. He was a private soldier in the War of 1812, and at its conclusion went to Harper's Ferry, Va., where he worked a short time in the armory. In 1814 he engaged mercantile pursuits at Circleville, Ohio, and ten years later removed to Jackson, where he lived until his death in 1861. During this period he held many important offices, among them that of County Commissioner, Clerk of the Courts, and member of the Legislature of Ohio. He was the father of six children, as follows: Col. John Garnett (Hoffman), of Kansas;
Ripley C., attorney at law at Columbus, Ohio;
David A. is the third son; Charles B. died in infancy; Cornelia V., now Mrs. J. L. Long, lives at Jackson, Ohio; Daniel W. was an attorney, and practiced at Ottawa, Kan., until his health failed, when he returned to Circleville, Ohio, and died Dec. 31, 1875; the eldest son, John J., was Captain of a company of infantry in the three months' service, and afterward Lieutenant Colonel of the 2d Virginia Cavalry. Daniel W. was Major of the 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. Julia James, wife of Daniel Hoffman, was born on what is now called Neal's Island, in the Ohio River between Marietta and Parkersburg, W. Va., April 10, 1800. They were united in marriage in the year 1818, and lived happily together until his death. She died in 1863, at Jackson, Ohio. Her father. John James, came to Ohio from Connecticut, in 1787, six months after the first settlement of Mar- ietta by Gen. Putnam....."
Portrait & Biographical Album of Mahaska Co., Iowa, 1887
".......Daniel Hoffman, father.....was born at Woodstock, Shenandoah Co., Va., Jan. 18, 1790. He learned the trade of gun- smith with his father, and removed with the family to Ross County, Ohio, in 1806. He was a private soldier in the War of 1812, and at its conclusion went to Harper's Ferry, Va., where he worked a short time in the armory. In 1814 he engaged mercantile pursuits at Circleville, Ohio, and ten years later removed to Jackson, where he lived until his death in 1861. During this period he held many important offices, among them that of County Commissioner, Clerk of the Courts, and member of the Legislature of Ohio. He was the father of six children, as follows: Col. John Garnett (Hoffman), of Kansas;
Ripley C., attorney at law at Columbus, Ohio;
David A. is the third son; Charles B. died in infancy; Cornelia V., now Mrs. J. L. Long, lives at Jackson, Ohio; Daniel W. was an attorney, and practiced at Ottawa, Kan., until his health failed, when he returned to Circleville, Ohio, and died Dec. 31, 1875; the eldest son, John J., was Captain of a company of infantry in the three months' service, and afterward Lieutenant Colonel of the 2d Virginia Cavalry. Daniel W. was Major of the 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. Julia James, wife of Daniel Hoffman, was born on what is now called Neal's Island, in the Ohio River between Marietta and Parkersburg, W. Va., April 10, 1800. They were united in marriage in the year 1818, and lived happily together until his death. She died in 1863, at Jackson, Ohio. Her father. John James, came to Ohio from Connecticut, in 1787, six months after the first settlement of Mar- ietta by Gen. Putnam....."
An excerpt from
Portrait & Biographical Album of Mahaska Co., Iowa, 1887
".......Daniel Hoffman, father.....was born at Woodstock, Shenandoah Co., Va., Jan. 18, 1790. He learned the trade of gun- smith with his father, and removed with the family to Ross County, Ohio, in 1806. He was a private soldier in the War of 1812, and at its conclusion went to Harper's Ferry, Va., where he worked a short time in the armory. In 1814 he engaged mercantile pursuits at Circleville, Ohio, and ten years later removed to Jackson, where he lived until his death in 1861. During this period he held many important offices, among them that of County Commissioner, Clerk of the Courts, and member of the Legislature of Ohio. He was the father of six children, as follows: Col. John Garnett (Hoffman), of Kansas;
Ripley C., attorney at law at Columbus, Ohio;
David A. is the third son; Charles B. died in infancy; Cornelia V., now Mrs. J. L. Long, lives at Jackson, Ohio; Daniel W. was an attorney, and practiced at Ottawa, Kan., until his health failed, when he returned to Circleville, Ohio, and died Dec. 31, 1875; the eldest son, John J., was Captain of a company of infantry in the three months' service, and afterward Lieutenant Colonel of the 2d Virginia Cavalry. Daniel W. was Major of the 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. Julia James, wife of Daniel Hoffman, was born on what is now called Neal's Island, in the Ohio River between Marietta and Parkersburg, W. Va., April 10, 1800. They were united in marriage in the year 1818, and lived happily together until his death. She died in 1863, at Jackson, Ohio. Her father. John James, came to Ohio from Connecticut, in 1787, six months after the first settlement of Mar- ietta by Gen. Putnam....."
Portrait & Biographical Album of Mahaska Co., Iowa, 1887
".......Daniel Hoffman, father.....was born at Woodstock, Shenandoah Co., Va., Jan. 18, 1790. He learned the trade of gun- smith with his father, and removed with the family to Ross County, Ohio, in 1806. He was a private soldier in the War of 1812, and at its conclusion went to Harper's Ferry, Va., where he worked a short time in the armory. In 1814 he engaged mercantile pursuits at Circleville, Ohio, and ten years later removed to Jackson, where he lived until his death in 1861. During this period he held many important offices, among them that of County Commissioner, Clerk of the Courts, and member of the Legislature of Ohio. He was the father of six children, as follows: Col. John Garnett (Hoffman), of Kansas;
Ripley C., attorney at law at Columbus, Ohio;
David A. is the third son; Charles B. died in infancy; Cornelia V., now Mrs. J. L. Long, lives at Jackson, Ohio; Daniel W. was an attorney, and practiced at Ottawa, Kan., until his health failed, when he returned to Circleville, Ohio, and died Dec. 31, 1875; the eldest son, John J., was Captain of a company of infantry in the three months' service, and afterward Lieutenant Colonel of the 2d Virginia Cavalry. Daniel W. was Major of the 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. Julia James, wife of Daniel Hoffman, was born on what is now called Neal's Island, in the Ohio River between Marietta and Parkersburg, W. Va., April 10, 1800. They were united in marriage in the year 1818, and lived happily together until his death. She died in 1863, at Jackson, Ohio. Her father. John James, came to Ohio from Connecticut, in 1787, six months after the first settlement of Mar- ietta by Gen. Putnam....."
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