Colonel, United States Army
OBITUARY :
COL. WICKHAM HOFFMAN DEAD.; Distinguished Officer and Diplomat Passed Away at Atlantic City.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., May 21. -- COL. WICKHAM HOFFMAN, a distinguished officer of the civil war and a diplomat of long experience, died at his Summer home here to-day of paralysis, which attacked him yesterday. He had been in poor, health for a long time. The body will be taken to Washington tomorrow and interred at Arlington Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife and one son, Francis Burrall Hoffman of New York. His wife was with him when he died. His son and daughter-in-law arrived to-night.
Col. Wickham Hoffman was born in this city in 1821. He was the son of Murray Hoffman, Vice Chancellor and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, and of Frances Burrall, daughter of Francis Burrall, an officer in the Revolutionary Army, and later first cashier of the Bank of America.
Col. Hoffman was a lawyer by profession and was graduated from Harvard University with the class of '41. He served all through the civil war and was wounded at Port Hudson. In June 1866, he resigned his commission and was appointed Assistant Secretary of Legation at the Court of Versailles. He was subsequently promoted to First Secretary of the Legation, a post which he held for nine years. During the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune he was indefatigable in assisting Minister Washburn to protect German subjects in the capital, as well as American's, and took a conspicuous part in the work of relief.
He resigned this Secretaryship in 1882 to accept under President Arthur the appointment of Minister Resident and Consul General to Denmark. This post he filled until 1884, when he retired to private life. Since his retirement he had lived in Washington.
In 1884 Col. Hoffman married Elizabeth Baylies, daughter of Edmund Baylies of Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Elijah Baylies, an officer in the Continental Army and aide-de-camp to Washington.
OBITUARY :
COL. WICKHAM HOFFMAN DEAD.; Distinguished Officer and Diplomat Passed Away at Atlantic City.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., May 21. -- COL. WICKHAM HOFFMAN, a distinguished officer of the civil war and a diplomat of long experience, died at his Summer home here to-day of paralysis, which attacked him yesterday. He had been in poor, health for a long time. The body will be taken to Washington tomorrow and interred at Arlington Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife and one son, Francis Burrall Hoffman of New York. His wife was with him when he died. His son and daughter-in-law arrived to-night.
Col. Wickham Hoffman was born in this city in 1821. He was the son of Murray Hoffman, Vice Chancellor and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, and of Frances Burrall, daughter of Francis Burrall, an officer in the Revolutionary Army, and later first cashier of the Bank of America.
Col. Hoffman was a lawyer by profession and was graduated from Harvard University with the class of '41. He served all through the civil war and was wounded at Port Hudson. In June 1866, he resigned his commission and was appointed Assistant Secretary of Legation at the Court of Versailles. He was subsequently promoted to First Secretary of the Legation, a post which he held for nine years. During the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune he was indefatigable in assisting Minister Washburn to protect German subjects in the capital, as well as American's, and took a conspicuous part in the work of relief.
He resigned this Secretaryship in 1882 to accept under President Arthur the appointment of Minister Resident and Consul General to Denmark. This post he filled until 1884, when he retired to private life. Since his retirement he had lived in Washington.
In 1884 Col. Hoffman married Elizabeth Baylies, daughter of Edmund Baylies of Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Elijah Baylies, an officer in the Continental Army and aide-de-camp to Washington.
Colonel, United States Army
OBITUARY :
COL. WICKHAM HOFFMAN DEAD.; Distinguished Officer and Diplomat Passed Away at Atlantic City.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., May 21. -- COL. WICKHAM HOFFMAN, a distinguished officer of the civil war and a diplomat of long experience, died at his Summer home here to-day of paralysis, which attacked him yesterday. He had been in poor, health for a long time. The body will be taken to Washington tomorrow and interred at Arlington Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife and one son, Francis Burrall Hoffman of New York. His wife was with him when he died. His son and daughter-in-law arrived to-night.
Col. Wickham Hoffman was born in this city in 1821. He was the son of Murray Hoffman, Vice Chancellor and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, and of Frances Burrall, daughter of Francis Burrall, an officer in the Revolutionary Army, and later first cashier of the Bank of America.
Col. Hoffman was a lawyer by profession and was graduated from Harvard University with the class of '41. He served all through the civil war and was wounded at Port Hudson. In June 1866, he resigned his commission and was appointed Assistant Secretary of Legation at the Court of Versailles. He was subsequently promoted to First Secretary of the Legation, a post which he held for nine years. During the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune he was indefatigable in assisting Minister Washburn to protect German subjects in the capital, as well as American's, and took a conspicuous part in the work of relief.
He resigned this Secretaryship in 1882 to accept under President Arthur the appointment of Minister Resident and Consul General to Denmark. This post he filled until 1884, when he retired to private life. Since his retirement he had lived in Washington.
In 1884 Col. Hoffman married Elizabeth Baylies, daughter of Edmund Baylies of Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Elijah Baylies, an officer in the Continental Army and aide-de-camp to Washington.
OBITUARY :
COL. WICKHAM HOFFMAN DEAD.; Distinguished Officer and Diplomat Passed Away at Atlantic City.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., May 21. -- COL. WICKHAM HOFFMAN, a distinguished officer of the civil war and a diplomat of long experience, died at his Summer home here to-day of paralysis, which attacked him yesterday. He had been in poor, health for a long time. The body will be taken to Washington tomorrow and interred at Arlington Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife and one son, Francis Burrall Hoffman of New York. His wife was with him when he died. His son and daughter-in-law arrived to-night.
Col. Wickham Hoffman was born in this city in 1821. He was the son of Murray Hoffman, Vice Chancellor and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, and of Frances Burrall, daughter of Francis Burrall, an officer in the Revolutionary Army, and later first cashier of the Bank of America.
Col. Hoffman was a lawyer by profession and was graduated from Harvard University with the class of '41. He served all through the civil war and was wounded at Port Hudson. In June 1866, he resigned his commission and was appointed Assistant Secretary of Legation at the Court of Versailles. He was subsequently promoted to First Secretary of the Legation, a post which he held for nine years. During the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune he was indefatigable in assisting Minister Washburn to protect German subjects in the capital, as well as American's, and took a conspicuous part in the work of relief.
He resigned this Secretaryship in 1882 to accept under President Arthur the appointment of Minister Resident and Consul General to Denmark. This post he filled until 1884, when he retired to private life. Since his retirement he had lived in Washington.
In 1884 Col. Hoffman married Elizabeth Baylies, daughter of Edmund Baylies of Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Elijah Baylies, an officer in the Continental Army and aide-de-camp to Washington.
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