Newton Co., IN Bio

Newton County, Iroquois Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   EDWIN G. HOFF, farmer, is a native of Will County, Illinois, and is
a son of Horace and Sarah A. Hoff; the former died in Joliet, the latter
resides in Chicago, aged seventy years of age.
   Mr. Hoff was owner of 160 acres in Will County, which he sold and 
came to his present location.  He was married in Will County to Miss
Caroline, a daughter of Edward and Rosella (Searls) Law, and born
September 1, 1846.  Five children followed this union--Evelyn, Florence,
Caroline (deceased), Horace, and Rosella (deceased).  
   Mr. Hoff has a fine prairie farm of 160 acres, with 300 rods of 
hedge, which he has owned since 1881.  He raises from 2,500 to 3,000 
bushels of corn, and about 1,200 bushels of oats annually; he also
raises some Hereford cattle, the finest stock in the world, and fifty 
to seventy-five hogs a year, and has six working horses.  Mr. Hoff is
an excellent man, and one of the representative farmers of the township.


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