Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Hoffman, Eugene Augustus
HOFFMAN, EUGENE AUGUSTUS,
an American clergyman; born in New
York City in 1829. He was educated at
Rutgers and Harvard colleges and the
General Theological Seminary. After
serving as rector in several churches in
New York and Pennsylvania he was in
1879 appointed dean of the General
Theological Seminary in New York. He
was a man of great wealth and bestowed
a large part of this on the seminary.
His writings include “Free Churches”
(1858); “The Eucharistic Week” (1893).
He died in 1902.