Biographies

 Source:
History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
Vols. I & 2 -
Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro.
1882
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HAYES FAMILY Source:  History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches Vol. II - Mahoning Co., Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro. 1882 - Page 274

Judge B. F. Hoffman

BENJAMIN F. HOFFMAN was born Jan. 25, 1812, in Chester county, Pennsylvania.  His parents were Joseph and Catharine (Stitcler) Hoffman, both natives of Chester county.  He received his primary education in the common and select schools of West Chester and Stroudsville, Pennsylvania.  He removed with his parents to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1833.  Hon. David Tod, afterwards Governor of Ohio, was his law instructor at Warren, Ohio, for two years; and then for six months in 1835-36 he attended the Cincinnati Law school, conducted by Wright, Benham & Walker, at which he graduated in 1836 as bachelor of law, and immediately thereafter was admitted to the bar by the supreme court at Cincinnati.  He then returned to Warren, and practiced law there for several years as a member of the firm of Tod, Hoffman & Hutchins.  He was appointed postmaster at Warren in October, 1838, and held the office until about June, 1841.      He was elected judge of the court of common pleas for the second sub-division of the ninth judicial district of Ohio at the annual election in October, 1856, entered on the term Feb. 8, 1857, and held the office until Feb. 9, 1862.  He was the private secretary of Governor Tod from Feb. 9, 1862, until the expiration of the Governor's term of office in January, 1864.  He then returned to Warren, resumed the practice of law, and there resided until 1870, when he removed to Youngstown, where he has since resided engaged in the practice of the law.      He was married in December, 1837, at Akron, Ohio, to Miss Elizabeth A. Cleveland, a native of Rutland, Vermont.  She died at Warren in November, 1869.  He was again married at Youngstown on July 20, 1870, to Mrs. Alice W. Hezlep, whose maiden name was Higgins.  She was a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio.      A more full biography will be found in another department of this work. Source: History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties - Vol. I - Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro. 1882 - Page 216