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Hoffman, Charles Fenno

author, poet, was born in 1806, in New York city. He was a popular poet and story writer of New York city who from 1850 lived in absolute retirement by reason of mental disorder.

He excelled as song writer, his best known songs being, Sparkling and Bright; and The Myrtle and Steel. He a is the author of A Winter in the West; Wild Scenes in the Forest and Prairie; The Vigil of Faith, and Other Poems; The Ecno, or Borrowed Notes for Home Circulation; and Love's Calendar, ana Other Poems; Grayslaer, a novel. He died June 7, 1884, in Harrisburg, Pa.