Elisha+Hoffman

**Elisha A. Hoffman (May 7, 1839-November 25, 1929)**
He attended the Philadelphia public schools, studied science, and then studied the classics at Union Seminary of the Evangelical Association. When he was 24, the War Between the States had been raging for two years, and he enlisted as a Private in the Union Army on July 9, 1863 with Company A, 47th Infantry Regiment, Pennsylvania. He was discharged just over a month later on August 14, 1863, a couple years before the war ended. About 1866, he married Susan M. Orwig. He was about 26, and she was about 22. He worked for the Evangelical Association Publishing HOuse in Cleveland, Ohio for eleven years. He was ordained by the Presbyterian Churches in 1873, at the age of 34. Two years later in 1876, his wife, Susan died, leaving him with three young boys. He was never formally trained in music, but wrote over 2,000 hymns, providing bout the words and the tune for most of them. He assisted in compiling and editing fifty song books! In Early 1879, at the age of 40, he remarried to Emma, a woman who was 26 years old. They had a baby boy in December, adding to the family of three other boys. They were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and had his sister-in-law living with them and working as a dressmaker. He was working as a clerk in a print shop. He took the pastorate at the Benton Harbor Presbyterian Church in Michigan and remained there for 33 years. In 1990, he was 61 years old and Emma was 47. They had been married for 21 years, and had their ownly daughter (together) living with them who was 19. He was a "preacher" and they lived in a rented house at 394 Territorial Street, Benton Harbor, Michigan. Elisha Hoffman lived to be 90, and died on November 25, 1929, in Cook County Illinois. ||
 * [[image:Elisha_Hoffman.jpg]] || Elisha Albright Hoffman was born May 7, 1839, in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania to a minister named Francis Hoffman. At a young age, Elisha accepted Christ as his Savior.
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