Untitled From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 924

WILLIAM HOFFMAN, a representative of one of the old families of Grant county, was born in 1844, in Louisville, Ky., son of Peter and Mary (BASLER) HOFFMAN.

Peter HOFFMAN, his father, one of the respected pioneers of southwestern Wisconsin, was born in Germany in 1815, and sought a new home in the New World, in 1833, settling first in Pennsylvania, thence removed to Ohio, where he married Mary BASLER. Three of their children survive: William, our subject; Henry; and Louisa, who is a resident of St. Paul, Minn. From Ohio the family removed to southern Illinois, locating near East St. Louis, and in 1847 located in Benton, Lafayette Co., Wis. where the father worked at his trade as a shoemaker. Through industry and thrift he was able within ten years to become the owner of a considerable tract in Grant county, and thither, in 1857, he removed with his family. A part of this land now forms the farm of William HOFFMAN.

William HOFFMAN has passed the greater part of his life in Wisconsin, and he now owns a fine farm of 208 acres. He enlisted in Company K (Capt. Baxter), of the 47th Wis. V.I., early in the war of the Rebellion, and marched and fought with his regiment until the struggle was ended. His health was seriously impaired, but he escaped wounds, and the memories of his years in the service are full of pleasant recollections. He is an esteemed member of Tom Cox Post, G.A.R. of Lancaster.

Mr. HOFFMAN married Mary BAKER, who has become the mother of ten children, three sons and seven daughters. In politics Mr. HOFFMAN is a stanch Republican, and works faithfully for the interests of that party.




This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck