OBIT: Harry C. HOFFMAN, Dr., 1942, native of Somerset County, PA

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HARRY C. HOFFMAN

  Dr. Harry C. Hoffman, former superintendent of the Somerset County Home and 
Hospital, died at Barnesville, Ohio, Nov. 11, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. 
Arbor Yingst with whom he and Mrs. Hoffman went to make their home several 
months ago.
  His remains were taken to Connellsville, where funeral services were held at 
the home of his pastor, Dr. William H. Hetrick, Friday morning.  Interment was 
made in the Hoffman Cemetery, Jenner Township, Friday afternoon.  Dr. Hetrick is 
pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church of Connellsville.
  Dr. Hoffman was born in Jenner Township near Jenner Cross Roads, the son of 
Jacob and Sarah Horner Hoffman.  His father maintained a general store and flour 
mill at the Cross Roads, for many years.   There Harry C. Hoffman spent the 
early years of his life, until he enrolled in Gettysburg College.  Upon 
completion of his studies there in 1901, he studied at the University of 
Pennsylvania, where he received his M.D. degree, four years later.
  In September, 1906, Dr. Hoffman opened an office for the general practice of 
medicine in Meyersdale, remaining there one year, part of which he devoted to 
work in the sanitarium at Markleton.  In 1907 Dr. Hoffman and his bride, the 
former Miss Evelyn Day, removed to Connellsville, where he became associated 
with the late Dr. J. L. Cochrane, in a private hospital where Dr. Hoffman 
devoted much of his time to the practice of surgery.
  In 1931, Dr. Hoffman and his family removed to Somerset, where he occupied the 
position as staff surgeon at the Community Hospital.  He continued in private 
practice until 1933, when he was elected superintendent of the Somerset County 
Home and Hospital, which position he held for a portion of that year.  Later he 
resumed private practice in Somerset, and after about a year returned to 
Connellsville, where he maintained an office until retirement in August of this 
year, when he and Mrs. Hoffman went to Barnesville, Ohio, to make their home 
with their daughter, Mrs. Yingst.
  Surviving in addition to his wife and Mrs. Yingst, are two other daughters, 
Sally, wife of Captain Lawrence Wenger of the Army intelligence service at Fort 
Eustice, Virginia, and Miss Evelyn Day Hoffman, associated with the Westinghouse 
Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh.  A brother, Ira, resides in 
Florida.

Meyersdale Republican, November 19, 1942