NEWS: Jacob A. and Clarissa (WILSON) HOFFMAN Celebrate 30th Anniversary, 1900, Blair County, PA

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THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob A. Hoffman Celebrate Their Cotton Wedding.

  Burgess J. A. Hoffman and wife celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of their 
wedding yesterday afternoon at their home on West Washington avenue.  They were 
married at Alexandria, Huntingdon county, on the 9th of February, 1870, and on 
the anniversary occasion yesterday a number of persons were present who 
witnessed the ceremony thirty years ago.  Miss Clarissa Wilson was the maiden 
name of Mrs. Hoffman.  It was a cold, blustery, winter day when she became the 
wife of Mr. Hoffman, and the trip to Huntingdon overland, to take a railroad 
train for the honeymoon tour, is well remembered by Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman as a 
chilly beginning to their voyage in life together, so far as environment was 
concerned, but the blasts of winter seemed only to heighten the warmth of 
affection which has reigned supreme in their household as the winters have since 
come and gone for nearly a third of a century.
  Besides Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman and their family there were present yesterday 
Rev.  Dr. W. M. Frysinger, present pastor of the First M. E. church; Mrs. Annie 
Raugh, of Altoona; Austin Altman and wife, P. H. Piper and wife, Misses Ella and 
Carrie Piper and Miss Sarah Long, of Alexandria; James Wilson (brother of Mrs. 
Hoffman) and wife, of Petersburg; David Long and wife and H. A. Hoffman (brother 
of Mr. Hoffman) and wife, of Tyrone, together with Mrs. Charles L. Hoffman 
(daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman) and two children, Richard Jacobs and 
Clair Festler, of Punxsutawney.  During the afternoon the two children were 
baptized by the ministers present.  A sumptuous dinner was served at 4 o'clock, 
and the anniversary occasion was most enjoyably spent by all present.  The 
congratulations were warm and earnest, and the substantial remembrances were 
appropriate and tasteful.  A letter expressing regret for unavoidable absence 
was received from J. L. Isenberg, a friend who was at the wedding of Mr. and 
Mrs. Hoffman.  He is now the editor of The Wave, published at Enid, Oklahoma.

Tyrone Daily Herald, February 10, 1900