Taylor Phipps Huffman and Sarah Elizabeth Pohlman

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Husband Taylor Phipps Huffman ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Taylor Peter Hoffman
           Born: 9 Dec 1846 - Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 1 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Nov 1930 - Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: Philip Ghost Hoffman (1823-1895) 1 3
         Mother: Mary Ann Martin (1824-1852) 1 3

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       Marriage: 1882 - the area of Pone Hill, Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 5

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   Other Spouse: Matilda N. Farren (1849-1880) 3 5 - Abt 1868

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Wife Sarah Elizabeth Pohlman ^{3 5}

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           Born: 1861 - Butler Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1946 3
         Buried:  - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6

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         Father: Herman Henry Pohlman (      -      ) 3 7
         Mother: Catherine Stover (      -      ) 7

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Children

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1 F Lotta "Lottie" Hoffman ^{3 5}

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           Born: Abt 1880
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
        Child-Par.Rel.: Father: Step, Mother: Biological

         Spouse: Elmer E. Donaldson (Abt 1883-      ) 3 5
           Marr: 26 Oct 1904 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 8

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2 M Henry Earl Hoffman ^{5 9}

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           Born: 26 Apr 1883 - Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 9
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Nov 1959 9
         Buried:  - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 10

         Spouse: Mary Grace Surrena (1890-1959) 9
           Marr: 16 Oct 1906 9

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3 M Raymond Claire Hoffman ^{5 11}

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           Born: 26 Jul 1898 - Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 20 Jan 1953 11
         Buried:  - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6

         Spouse: Jane Louise McQuiston (1897-1988) 11
           Marr: 26 Sep 1919 - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA 11

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General Notes: Husband - Taylor Phipps Huffman

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He was born on the home farm one mile west of Clintonville, PA. Being about four years old when his mother died, he was taken by his grandparents, John Hoffman and wife, with whom he remained until shortly before the Civil war. During the war he was on the paternal farm with his step-mother while his father was in the army, and subsequently he spent some years with his aunt Catherine, after the death of his uncle Daniel, living in her home up to the time of his marriage. He had the early experiences common to the boys of his day, being familiar with agricultural work from childhood, and as a young man he made several trips down the Allegheny on rafts, his father having been engaged in such work for some years. He was employed in the Rouseville oil fields as a teamster, hauling supplies, for two years, hauling oil from the tanks to cars before the pipe lines were installed. Then he lived on his father's part of the old farm, also teaming in the Bullion oil fields, until his removal to Butler County, to a tract of land of which his wife owned part. Having bought out the other shares in that place he farmed there for three years, after which he was at Parker for a time, teaming on the pipe line for one and a half years, and being there during the Bullion excitement. Later he bought the old farm, and after selling it he bought on Pone Hill, three miles west of Clintonville in Irwin Township. His next removal was to Bradford, where he did general teaming. Returning to the Pone Hill farm, he cultivated it for about eight years, meanwhile drilling in the oil fields, having bought some oil wells in the county with his brother Columbus. For two years he operated a small flouring mill at New Hope, whence he returned to his oil wells on the S. P. McCalmont farm, which he operated in company with his brother and Ghost McFadden and Ambrose McFadden, later buying out these men. They had bought out a lease with fourteen wells, and twenty-nine more were sunk, and though some dry holes were struck the drilling was satisfactory on the whole, and the yield became very profitable. Mr. Hoffman operated until 1908, selling the lease upon the closing of the bank at Clintonville. Meantime he had secured other leases, some in partnership with others, and he has continued operations to the present [1919], both alone and in company with others, now having shares in some wells and being sole owner of several, most of which he sunk himself. By devoting himself to his various properties he has become one of the successful operators in his locality, working hard and unceasingly to care for the details of his enterprises. Public life has had no attraction for him, his participation in such matters being confined to his efforts to support good men for office. [CAB, 994]

Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman are members of the M. E. Church and she was specially active in all the work of the congregation. An interesting story is told in the family. Though Philip G. Hoffman was a stanch Protestant, he was on terms of friendly familiarity with his Catholic neighbors, and the priest often called on him en route to some outside parish. Once, just as the Father came along, Taylor Hoffman fell from bed, the fall taking his breath away completely. The priest picked him up in his arms, and thinking him about to die called for water and baptized him. [CAB, 995]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 994.

2 Claudine Adams Diemert, The Descendants of David Martin (Self-published.), Pg 3, 194.

3 Claudine Adams Diemert, The Descendants of David Martin (Self-published.), Pg 3.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 52.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 995.

6 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 53.

7 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1317.

8 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #6676.

9 Claudine Adams Diemert, The Descendants of David Martin (Self-published.), Pg 10.

10 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 80.

11 Claudine Adams Diemert, The Descendants of David Martin (Self-published.), Pg 11.