Ohio Biographies

Jacob Hoffner

Jacob Hoffner was born in the year 1765, in Burke county, Pennsylvania, and from this State he emigrated to Ohio and settled in Springfield township in 1805. His death occurred at Mount Pleasant in 1845. While in Pennsylvania he followed the business of wagonmaker, but was a farmer in Ohio. Mrs. Magdalen Hoffner, wife of Jacob Hoffner, was born in 1768, and died in 1840. The members of the family now alive are Eliza Johnston, a resident of Cumminsville; Samuel, who lives at Indianapolis; and Thomas, the third son, and subject of following sketch.

 

From History of Hamilton County, Ohio, Henry & Kate Ford, L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers, 1881

 

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