Hoffmann family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hoffmann
Scope and Content of the Collection
Letters and legal documents, all handwritten, relating to the Hoffmann family.
Dates
- approximately 1789-1901
Creator
- Hoffmann, John Augustus (Person)
Language
Materials are in German.
Conditions Governing Access
The Hoffmann family papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Hoffmann family papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections at reference@newberry.org.
Biography of the Hoffmann Family
German immigrant family based in Wilmette, Illinois, and Dubuque, Iowa.
Little can be gleaned from the papers of the Hoffmann Family, since all of the correspondence and documents are in German longhand script. Names that can be identified are John Augustus Hoffmann near Chicago and Franz Joseph Hoffmann of Dubuque; Magreth Hoffmann; Mathias Hoffmann, and John W. Hoffmann. The 1870 Federal Census lists a Mathias Hoffmann living in Niles, Illinois, born 1826, married to Anna Hoffmann and having four children: John, Nicholaus, Caroline, and Margarethe: this may be the family documented in the family papers. A 1901 letter in the collection has the letterhead of the Hoffmann Brothers, dealers in General Merchandise: Feed, Coal, Wood, etc., with the return address of Wilmette, Illinois.
Little can be gleaned from the papers of the Hoffmann Family, since all of the correspondence and documents are in German longhand script. Names that can be identified are John Augustus Hoffmann near Chicago and Franz Joseph Hoffmann of Dubuque; Magreth Hoffmann; Mathias Hoffmann, and John W. Hoffmann. The 1870 Federal Census lists a Mathias Hoffmann living in Niles, Illinois, born 1826, married to Anna Hoffmann and having four children: John, Nicholaus, Caroline, and Margarethe: this may be the family documented in the family papers. A 1901 letter in the collection has the letterhead of the Hoffmann Brothers, dealers in General Merchandise: Feed, Coal, Wood, etc., with the return address of Wilmette, Illinois.
Extent
0.2 Linear Feet (1 box)
Abstract
Correspondence and documents relating to the immigrant Hoffmann family, especially John A. Hoffmann of Illinois and Franz Joseph Hoffmann in Dubuque, Iowa. By 1901, the family had established a feed and fuel company in Wilmette, Illinois.
Arrangement
Papers arranged by type of material.
Collection Stack Location
1 22 4
Provenance
Unknown.
Processed by
Virginia Hay Smith
Acknowledgements
This inventory was created with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this inventory do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Correspondence -- 1751-1800
- Correspondence -- 1801-1850
- Correspondence -- 1851-1900
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950
- Dry-goods -- Illinois
- Families -- Illinois
- Germans -- Illinois
- Hoffmann, Franz Joseph -- Correspondence
- Hoffmann, John Augustus -- Family
- Immigrants -- Illinois
- Manuscripts, German -- Illinois
Creator
- Hoffmann, John Augustus (Person)
- Title
- Inventory of the Hoffmann family papers, approximately 1789-1901
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Alison Hinderliter
- Date
- ©2010.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts Repository
Contact:
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org