Josiah Ogden Hoffman served as New York Attorney General from 1795 to 1802, but after he returned to private practice in Manhattan he began to train a law student named Washington Irving. Washington Irving’s family had come to America from the Orkney Islands and Cornwall, but Irving had spent much of his life surrounded by descendants of the original Dutch settlers of New York, including the very distinguished Hoffman family. Irving was a m...
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