HOHMAN ELMO PAUL

Male 1894 - 1977  (~ 82 years)


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  • Name HOHMAN ELMO PAUL 
    Born Jan 1894 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1 Jan 1977 
    Person ID I07302  Gynzer's Genealogy Database
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2005 

    Father HOHMAN JOHN ALBERT,   b. 1867,   d. Mar 1925  (Age 58 years) 
    Mother STEFFEN EMMA PAULINE,   b. 10 Mar 1866,   d. 18 Jan 1957  (Age 90 years) 
    Married 7 Oct 1891 
    Family ID F02550  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family FISCHER HELEN VASTINE,   b. 1894,   d. 18 Dec 1972  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 19 Aug 1919 
    Children 
    +1. Living
    Family ID F04651  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Elmo graduated from the University of Illinois in 1916. He was a campus leader at the University. While there he was a member of the track team and won the Conference Medal in 1916 for combined scholarship and athletic ability. He was a Jr. Phi Beta Kappa member of the Sr. honor society and a member of Delta Phi social fraternity which was at that time a local called Iris. After receiving his MA in history in 1917 at the U. of I., he spent 2 1/2 years as a Lt. in the Army in W. W. I.
      He then did graduate work in Economics at Harvard. His entire teaching career, from 1923-1962 was spent on the faculty of Northwestern, with almost 10 years of leave for study and research in Europe and Asia - 1928 - 30; 1936 - 37; 1951, 1952, 1957 - 58; and 1963 - 64. From 1942 - 45 he was on full time leave on O. P. A. and the War Labor Board. He has written 3 books in the field of maritime and international labor economics, as well as many articles and reports in the same field. He is now retired and lives in Evanston.

      From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1972"
      Compiled by Bernice Reinhardt


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