HENRY HOFFMAN ROELOFS
Henry Hoffman Roelofs was born in Granville, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1849. He was the son of Richard VanDer Hart and Catherine Houser Roelofs. Educated in the public schools, he early entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and subsequently was connected with the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, at Topeka, Kansas. For many years he was connected with the John B. Stetson Hat Company, being manager of the plant before it became a corporation. He retired from this connection in 1890, and founded his own plant as the Henry H. Roelofs Company, which was afterwards absorbed by the Guyer Hat Company. For many years he was a vestryman of St. Paul's P. E. Church, Cheltenham. He married Miss Wilhelmina Stetson, May 1, 1872. Mr. Roelofs died suddenly at Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 20, 1916, while making a tour of South America.
Henry Hoffman Roelofs was born in Granville, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1849. He was the son of Richard VanDer Hart and Catherine Houser Roelofs. Educated in the public schools, he early entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and subsequently was connected with the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, at Topeka, Kansas. For many years he was connected with the John B. Stetson Hat Company, being manager of the plant before it became a corporation. He retired from this connection in 1890, and founded his own plant as the Henry H. Roelofs Company, which was afterwards absorbed by the Guyer Hat Company. For many years he was a vestryman of St. Paul's P. E. Church, Cheltenham. He married Miss Wilhelmina Stetson, May 1, 1872. Mr. Roelofs died suddenly at Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 20, 1916, while making a tour of South America.
HENRY HOFFMAN ROELOFS
Henry Hoffman Roelofs was born in Granville, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1849. He was the son of Richard VanDer Hart and Catherine Houser Roelofs. Educated in the public schools, he early entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and subsequently was connected with the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, at Topeka, Kansas. For many years he was connected with the John B. Stetson Hat Company, being manager of the plant before it became a corporation. He retired from this connection in 1890, and founded his own plant as the Henry H. Roelofs Company, which was afterwards absorbed by the Guyer Hat Company. For many years he was a vestryman of St. Paul's P. E. Church, Cheltenham. He married Miss Wilhelmina Stetson, May 1, 1872. Mr. Roelofs died suddenly at Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 20, 1916, while making a tour of South America.
Henry Hoffman Roelofs was born in Granville, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1849. He was the son of Richard VanDer Hart and Catherine Houser Roelofs. Educated in the public schools, he early entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and subsequently was connected with the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, at Topeka, Kansas. For many years he was connected with the John B. Stetson Hat Company, being manager of the plant before it became a corporation. He retired from this connection in 1890, and founded his own plant as the Henry H. Roelofs Company, which was afterwards absorbed by the Guyer Hat Company. For many years he was a vestryman of St. Paul's P. E. Church, Cheltenham. He married Miss Wilhelmina Stetson, May 1, 1872. Mr. Roelofs died suddenly at Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 20, 1916, while making a tour of South America.
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