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 catastrophe.

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