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372	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
Catherine (Spahr) Ankeny. They were both members of the Reformed church, and in politics he was a Whig and later a Republican. Their children were: 1. Henry H., of whom later. 2. Matilda, wife of H. Miller, of Johnstown. 3. Freeman, of Somerset, Pennsylvania, married Mary E. Coleman. 4. Saralda, married John Watson Barnett, of Jenner, Pennsylvania. 5. Cinderella, died, aged eighteen years. 6. Catherine, died, aged twenty-one years. 7. Ida (Mrs. Michael Brubaker), died in Altoona, 1902. 8. Adella M. (Mrs. S. J. Fitt), died in 1903. 9. Jeanie, wife of Robert F. Witt, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.     Henry H. Hoffman received all of his schooling at the old Cover school in Jenner township, Somerset county, under Stephen Griffith, Emanuel Cover and a Miss Brubaker. When thirteen years old he left school and clerked for his uncle, John A. Sipes, in his general store at Jenners, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. He remained with him until he enlisted in the Union army, in 1865, for one year, in Company K, Sixty-first Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, under Captain Scribby. After remaining in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for a time, he was sent to Berksville Junction, Virginia. General Johnston being at Raleigh, North Carolina, the corps to which Mr. Hoffman belonged was sent on a forced march for that point, but on reaching Danville, Virginia, news was received that Johnston had surrendered. General Wright, commander of the Sixth Army Corps, and his staff with twenty men, including Mr. Hoffman, went to Raleigh, North Carolina, and returned to Danville. Later they were ordered to Washington, D. C., at the close of the war, and there discharged.     Mr. Hoffman arrived in Johnstown, July 3, 1865, and at once entered his uncle's store in Jenners as clerk again, remaining until the spring of 1866, when he went to Greenville, Ohio, where he worked for his uncle, Abraham Hoffman, on his farm. He contracted fever and ague, and about the last of September, the same year, returned to his old Somerset county home, where he remained until December 6, when he came to Johnstown and enlisted in the regular army. He was assigned to Company A, Second United States Artillery, stationed at Presidio, California. He remained there until March, 1869. While there his old commander of the Civil war days (General Wright) was drowned in the bay while out rowing. In the month of March, 1869, his command was ordered to Fort Riley, Kansas. The Union Pacific railroad was not completed until May of that year, and so they went via the Isthmus to New York, and back by rail to Kansas. After remaining a short time at Fort Riley, the Indian troubles begun in the west and the command was sent out on an expedition to White Rock, Kansas, in July of that year. They returned from that expedition and were sent with a surveying party, working along the Fort Scott &. Galveston railroad. In November, 1869. they returned to Fort Riley, Kansas, and Mr. Hoffman did guard duty until December 6, when his enlistment ended and he was discharged. He returned to his old home again, remained with his father the following year and then learned the trade of carpenter, which he followed until 1872, when he married and bought a farm in Jenner township, which he carried on, at the same time following his trade, until the flood of 1889, when he came to Johnstown and worked constantly at his trade for four years. He then spent five years on his farm and returned to Johnstown, where he huckstered about two years. He then purchased his present store from A. J. Lohr.     Mr. Hoffman was married at Sipesville, Pennsylvania, by Rev. Keener, pastor of Mt. Tabor Reformed church, to Elizabeth Coleman,

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