Walter James Hoffman

Biography

Walter James Hoffman was a devoted presence in the Congressional Cemetery community, where those who knew him remembered a steady character committed to his family and neighbors. Though the historical record offers few details about his occupation, he quietly supported civic life in the capital during a period of great change, taking pride in the rituals of service that kept the city bound together.

His memory endures among the graves of the nation’s capital as a testament to the countless citizens whose faithful stewardship of home and hearth sustained the civic order through the late nineteenth century.