Hoffman
Hoffman names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hoffman CHARLES FENNO, an American poet and novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES FENNO, an American poet and novelist; born in New York City, in 1806. He was orig inally a lawyer. He founded the "Knick- Magazine," edited the "Lit- 15, 1819. He studied philology and his- erbocker M erary World," and and was owner and ed- "American Magazine." His itor of the "American his first stories appearing finest work was his songs, the be the best known very popular. being " Sparkling and Bright, " and " The He wrote the novel They were followed by "Out of the Old Myrtle and Steel." (1840). His complete po- Time and the New"; "As the People etical works eople "Greyslaer" rks appeared in 1874. He died , especially in Harrisburg, Pa., June 7, 1884.
Hoffman FREDERICK LUDWIG, an American statistician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERICK LUDWIG, an American statistician, born in Varel, north Germany in 1865. He was educated in the common and private schools in Germany. He removed to the United States and became statistician for the war he took a Prudential Insurance Co. of Ameri Vol. V-Cyc-0 in 1891. He was employed as statistician by many organizations and made important portant researches in ethnology and kindred subjects. He was the author of "The Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro" (1896); "Fatal Accidents in Coal Mining" (1910); "Mortality from Cancer Throughout the World" (1915); "Mortality from Respiratory Diseases in Dusty Trades" (1917).
Hoffman EUGENE AUGUSTUS, an American clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EUGENE AUGUSTUS, an American clergyman; born in New York City in 1829. He was educated at Rutgers and Harvard colleges and the General Theological Seminary. After churches in serving as rector in several New York and Pennsylvania cal he was in 1879 appointed dean of the General Theological Seminary in New York. He 19, was a man of great wealth and bestowed a large part of this on the seminary. His writings include "Free Churches" (1858); "The Eucharistic Week" (1893). He died in 1902.
Hoffman or HOFFMANN, MANN
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
or HOFFMANN, MANN, the name of several Germans distinguished for their medical knowledge. MORITZ
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 lists Frederick Ludwig Hoffman as a Prudential statistician whose "Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro" (1896) was simply another of his "important researches": that book is now studied as a landmark of statistical racism, its claim that Black Americans were dying out having been used to justify refusing them life insurance. The same man's cancer statistics had a very different afterlife — his warnings about rising cancer mortality helped bring about the American Society for the Control of Cancer in 1913, which is today the American Cancer Society, and his work on "dusty trades" fed into modern research on silicosis and occupational disease. Collier's is also discreet about Charles Fenno Hoffman: he died at Harrisburg in 1884 because he had been confined in an asylum since 1849, and his songs, then "very popular," are now read almost only by specialists in the Knickerbocker circle. Eugene Augustus Hoffman's fortune did endow the General Theological Seminary, which survives in Chelsea, Manhattan, though it has since sold and redeveloped much of the block he helped pay for.
Written for this edition, 2026.