Marriage
On June 23, 1894 Hoffmann married at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Eliza Gertrude Wesselhoeft, the daughter of a prominent German-American doctor, . Over the following ten years the couple became the parents of two daughters and a son. After her husband’s death in 1932, Gertrude turned to acting and began what would become a 30-year career as a character actor in Hollywood.
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