Owning the Arnold's Tavern Philip Henry Hoffman (July 28, 1827 – April 17, 1924) was an American tailor, banker, and building owner in Morristown, New Jersey.

[8] While a child and teenager, he assisted his father in "the labors of field and meadow" and attended local schools.

[8] In March 12 1851, Hoffman was married to Barbara Ann Byram (1829–1897); she was a descendant of Pilgrim colonists of Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

He attended Morris Academy and High School and the Peddie Institute in Hightstown, New Jersey, and in 1883 graduated from the New York Homeopathic Medical College and built a "large and lucrative practice" in Morristown.

[8][11] On December 11, 1893,[11][12] Joseph Reed Hoffman died after a brief illness[8] of peritonitis,[11] "highly esteemed by all who enjoyed his acquaintance.

In July[13] 1863, Hoffman and Abraham L. Cross purchased the historic Arnold's Tavern in Morristown, best known for its 1777 history as George Washington's winter headquarters.

Contemporaneous Morristown farmer and historian Caroline Foster has stated, Governor Randolph and the people of importance used to come up to Phillip Hoffman's to have their clothes pressed, and while they waited...they'd sit upstairs on the second floor to smoke and chat around the stove...Mr. Hoffman and the tailors would prepare the suit, press it, and take it up to them.

[2] In 1905, Dover newspaper The Iron Era[18] reported that Hoffman was the vice president of Chester's Patriotic Order Sons of America.

[7] In 1917, he was the subject of a brief biography in The Clothier and Furnisher titled "Ninety Years of Age, In Business Nearly Seventy."