Early Life
Ole P. Hoff was born in Hadeland, Norway on May 17, 1853. After leaving Norway in 1870, he first settled in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, then in California before briefly coming to Oregon in 1875. He returned to California until 1879, when he settled permanently in Oregon. From 1870 to 1879 he worked in farming, logging, mill work and mining. In 1881 he started 13 years of work as a railroad agent, and also worked as a postmaster during this time. He married Cynthia Alice Parsons in Eugene on May 13, 1880; they had two children, who were born in Irving, Oregon. He was a member of the Elks and Masons, and the Masonic orders of the Shrine and Knights Templar.
Read more about this topic: O. P. Hoff
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or life:
“O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure;”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw
A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw,
A Buddha, hand at rest,
Hand lifted up that blest;
And right between these two a girl at play
That, it may be, had danced her life away....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)