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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Nehrling, Minna Frances Hoffman |
| Title, Analytic | Memoirs of 'Riverside Farm' |
| Journal Title | Wisconsin Magazine of History |
| Date of Publication | June 1930 |
| Volume ID | 13 |
| Issue ID | 4 |
| Location in Work | 356-364, ill. |
| Notes | Minna Frances Hoffmann married Werner Francis Nehrling, son of son of Heinrich / Henry Nehrling, author of Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (Brumder, 1891). |
| Abstract | The author is the granddaughter of Francis A. Hoffmann (1822-1903). Hoffmann was born in Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, and fled the Prussian draft in 1840. After a successful career in Illinois a teacher, Lutheran minister, attorney, banker, organizer of the Illinois Republican Party, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, consul to the Kingdom of Hanover, and a land commissioner for a railroad company, he retired in 1875 to a farm along the Rock River in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, and devoted his time to writing articles on farming and horticulture for the German language press under the pen name Hans Buschbauer. |
| Call Number | MKI P2010-4 |
| MKI Terms | Hoffmann, Franz Arnold, 1822-1903/ German Americans -- Illinois/ German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Biographies/ Politics/ Agriculture/ Writing |