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Hoffman, Clara Cleghorne

educator, lecturer, was born Jan. 18, 1836, in De Kalb, N. Y. For twelve years she was principal of the Great Ward school of Kansas City, Mo., where she still resides.

She previously taught in Keokuk, Iowa, and in Columbia, Ill. In 1882 she was elected president of the Missouri Woman's Christian Temperance union; and in 1893 was elected recording secretary of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union. She has lectured in all the states of the union, and in Great Britain and Canada. Humphrey Cleghorne, her father, kept an underground railway station for runaway slaves fleeing to Canada. In 1861 she married Dr. Goswin Hoffman, now a successful German physician of Kansas City, Mo.