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. Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915. r JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 457 Hessen, Germany, July 21, 1839, marriedHartman Knauff, and died July 11, 1915;Philip Herman was the father of the Hoffmanbrothers; Mary, born in 1846, was an earlyschool teacher at Punxsutawney, later marriedMarion Stear, and died April 19, 1874. Philip Herman Hoffman was born Jan. 28,1844, in Perry township, Jefferson county,near the present town of Horatio, and diedJan. 25, 1896, on tne old homestead of hisparents near Trade City. He became an in-fluential business man of this section.
. Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915. r JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 457 Hessen, Germany, July 21, 1839, marriedHartman Knauff, and died July 11, 1915;Philip Herman was the father of the Hoffmanbrothers; Mary, born in 1846, was an earlyschool teacher at Punxsutawney, later marriedMarion Stear, and died April 19, 1874. Philip Herman Hoffman was born Jan. 28,1844, in Perry township, Jefferson county,near the present town of Horatio, and diedJan. 25, 1896, on tne old homestead of hisparents near Trade City. He became an in-fluential business man of this section. In hisearlier life he followed farming, conducted thehotel at Trade City for some years, was en-gaged as a dealer in farm implements, and wasa pioneer well driller in this part of Pennsyl-vania, running a Keystone Portable drillingmachine which he operated in Jefferson andthe surrounding counties. It was not alone inbusiness that his energetic and progressivecharacter was felt. Any good cause had hissympathy and, support, and he was promi-nently associated with the
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