The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Hoffman, Eugene Augustus
HOFFMAN, Eugene Augustus, American
Episcopal clergyman: b. New York, 21 March
1829; d. near Plattsburg, N. Y., 17 June 1902.
He was educated at Rutgers and Harvard
colleges and at the General Theological Seminary.
He held successive rectorships at Elizabeth,
N. J., Burlington, N. J., Brooklyn, N. Y., and
Philadelphia, and in 1879 was appointed dean

of the General Theological Seminary, New
York, and with others of his family heavily
endowed that institution. Dean Hoffman built
Christ Church and rectory at Elizabeth, N. J.,
and also churches at Woodbridge and Milburn,
N. J. He was the author of ‘Free Churches’
(1858); and ‘The Eucharistic Week’ (1859
and 1893). Consult Riley, T. M., ‘Memorial
Biography of E. A. Hoffman’ (New York
1904).