Mendocino County Biographies

Charles Hofman

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Born in Austria, June 5, 1843, where he resided until thirteen 
years of age, when he immigrated to the United States. He clerked in a store in 
St. Louis for four years, and then he came to California, via Panama. Upon his 
arrival here, he engaged as a clerk in a store at Grass Valley, Nevada county, 
where he remained until 1864. He then took up his abode in San Francisco, where 
he followed his previous occupation three years. Mr. Hofman then returned to 
Grass Valley, and took up his old position, remaining there until 1870. He then 
came to Mendocino county and engaged in general merchandising at Ukiah, where he 
has since remained. He married, in October, 1873, Miss Sophia Wiener, a native 
of Connecticut. There are two children: Celia, born October 28, 1875; Jacob, 
born December 8, 1879.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 644, 645