Dr. Kelse Monjar Hoffman and Jean W. Walthower

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Husband Dr. Kelse Monjar Hoffman ¹

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           Born: 22 Jan 1902 - Venango Co, PA 1
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           Died: May 1979 - ? Kennerdell, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA
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         Father: Samuel Briggs Hoffman (1854-1937) 2 3 4
         Mother: Elma Eleanor Gilmore (1857-1927) 4 5

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       Marriage: Jul 1929 6

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   Other Spouse: Eleanor Jelken (1917-      ) - Abt 14 Apr 1942 - Oregon

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Wife Jean W. Walthower ⁶

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            AKA: Jean Wallhower
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Kelse Monjar Hoffman

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He attended public schools at Clintonville and Evans City, Pennsylvania; took a pre-medical course at Grove City College, in Grove City; then became a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1928. After­ward he had postgraduate studies in cardiology and al­lergy at the Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Hoffman served an internship at the Medical Center of the University of Pittsburgh, where he remained for one year. Then, in 1929, he started his own general medi­cal practice in Franklin, conducting his work along gen­eral lines for five years and then beginning, in 1934, to specialize more and more in internal medicine. Eventually his practice became ever more specialized in that branch of medicine dealing with cardiac disorders. Doing this kind of work almost exclusively, Dr. Hoffman is said to be one of the outstanding heart specialists in this region of Pennsylvania.
He served as president of the Venango County Medical Society and as chief of pneumonia con­trol in the Eighth Consular District of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He also belonged to the American Medi­cal Association, was a member of the American Heart Association, and was a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Hoffman was a demonstrator in medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, a member of the Falk Clinic in Pittsburgh and a member of the staff of Frank­lin Hospital. He served as clerical director of the opera­tion department of that hospital, as well as director of the laboratory.
Active also in community affairs in Franklin, Dr. Hoffman was a Republican in politics, a member of the local Rod and Gun Club, and a leader in the Free and Accepted Masons, in which his affiliation was with Alleghany Valley Lodge. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church.

SSDI: KELSE HOFFMAN 22 Jan 1902 May 1979 16374 (Kennerdell, Venango, PA) 16323 (Franklin, Venango, PA) 193-34-9652 Pennsylvania

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General Notes: Wife - Jean W. Walthower

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from Westmoreland Co, PA

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 306.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 955, 998.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 804.

4 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 113.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 955.

6 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 307.