 Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, August 14, 1898 pg. 1 Tom Hoffman Suicides The Kansas City Star of a recent date contained the particulars of the suicide of Thos. W. Hoffman in a hotel by morphine. In pioneer days Tom Hoffman was a picturesque figure in Denison business circles. He was a bookkeeper, insurance and real estate agent. He was a high roller and while a citizen of Denison led a tempestuous life. In the seventies when Denison was the ideal border town of the southwest, Hoffman was a potent factor in passing events. It is hard to conceive of any scheme of a boom nature that Hoffman was not mixed up with. Hoffman lost his grip here and left Denison in 1882. He was born at Mt. Stirling, Kentucky and was a boy companion of Col. J.D. Yocom. At the time of death he was about 52 years of age. He left a wife and family. Business entanglements and the horrors of Bright's Disease precipitated the castatrophe. SUICIDE Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |