This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hoffman, Huggins, Myers, Surface Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/2583 Message Board Post: Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pg. 441 Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888 SETH HOFFMAN, an active and enterprising farmer in Tippecanoe County, residing on section 28, Wabash Township, was born in this county, March 28, 1846, a representative of an old and honored pioneer family. His parents, JONATHAN and ELIZABETH (HUGGINS) HOFFMAN, were natives of York County, Pennsylvania. In 1834 they emigrated to Montgomery County, Ohio, locating near Dayton, and in 1838 came to Tippecanoe County, the father purchasing land in Shelby Township. After residing in Shelby Township a short time the father bought a farm in Wabash Township, now occupied by his sons, NOAH and SETH, and her he lived for several years. He then went to Battle Ground, remaining there until 1870, when he returned to the farm in Wabash Township. He died near Purdue University, in August, 1885. His wife died December 24, 1884. They were the parents of six children, four of whom yet survive--NOAH; EZRA, a resident of Keith County, Nebraska; ELLEN, wife of MARTIN MYERS, and SETH, the s! ubject of this sketch. JOSHUA and CALEB, twin brothers, are deceased. SETH HOFFMAN was reared to the vocation of a farmer, and received his education in the schools of Wabash Township, and at Battle Ground, Tippecanoe Township. He was united in marriage January 1, 1871, to MISS MINERVA SURFACE, a daughter of DR. SAMUEL SURFACE, of Wabash Township, and of the four children born to this union two died in infancy. The names of the children yet living are--LORA V. and SAMUEL J. After his marriage MR. HOFFMAN spent six months in Randolph Township. He then lived in Wabash Township three years, when he removed to Fairfield Township, remaining there but one year. In 1876 he located on his present farm, where he has 106 acres of well improved land, with good residence and substantial farm buildings. MR. HOFFMAN is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a class leader and Sunday school superintendent. In politics he casts his suffrage with the Republican party.