U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hoff, Silas Marion (1865-1944) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Pages 626-627 Silas Marion Hoff is at this time one of the most prominent official figures of the county. He shares (with H. B. Woods and the late T. E. Davis) the distinction of being one of the three native born sons of Ritchie that have filled the Prosecutor's chair. Mr. Hoff was born on the "Hoff homestead" below Auburn, on March 14, 1865, and by his pluck and energy has forged his way up through many dis-advantages to his present high-standing. He, like not a few others whose records are herein inscribed, began his public life as a rural pedagogue. He was graduated from the State Normal at Glenville in the class of 1881, and afterwards entered the State University, at Morgantown, where he took the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Bachelor of Laws. He served as Superintendent of the Public schools of Sistersville, and was principal of the Pennsboro school for one year; was County Superintendent for four years, and is now serving his second term as Prosecuting Attorney, and is talked of as a candidate for the Judgeship. On September 21, 1898, at high noon, he was married to Miss Minnie Wilson, daughter of the late L. P. Wilson, of Pennsboro, who was, also, a teacher, and five children are the result of this union; viz., Rosalind Wilson, Virginia Elizabeth, Helen Paris, Marion Rowland, and Leroy P. Hoff. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Cabell County, WV #14455 FULL-NAME: Silas Marion Hoff BIRTH-DATE: March 14, 1865 BIRTH-PLACE: Auburn, W.Va. DEATH-DATE: December 26, 1944 (at age 79y-9m-12d) DEATH-PLACE: 2650 Collis Ave., Huntington, Cabell County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married (Cora Jeffers) OCCUPATION: Attorney FATHER: John Hoff (born in Harrison Co., W.Va.) MOTHER: Catherine Gaston (born in Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Arterio-sclerotic heart disease INFORMANT: Mrs. S. M. Hoff (of Huntington, W.Va.) BURIAL: Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, W.Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------