In fact, it is to Hoffman the inception of the home came as a sort of inspiration, and she gave at various times thousands of dollars to promote its beneficent aims.

As the years rolled on, the dream of her childhood became a reality, and with the cooperation of her husband, Hoffman made the first contributions to the new enterprise, and then worked to obtain co-laborers, that the home might be established and occupied.

It was to be wholly unsectarian, and was so incorporated, though it was to bear the name of a widely-known Universalist preacher, Edwin Hubbell Chapin, who had been for many years Hoffman's pastor.

[3] Hoffman proved herself also the friend of struggling genius, for it was in her residence on Fifth Avenue that the operatic favorite, Emma Abbott, was introduced to the public of New York, and thus advanced on her career.

US$500 of the money subscribed in order that Abbott might receive instruction in Europe came from Hoffman, and it was through her instrumentality that the voice of the future prima donna was secured for the choir of Dr. Chapin's church, before she entered fully upon her public career.

Still preserved by some of Abbott's friends, as a memento, was a card with the words, "Charity Entertainment, in aid of the Chapin Home Fund, at the house of Mrs. George Hoffman.

She had been a valued member of Sorosis[5] for nearly as long as it has existed, and was usually in office or prominent as the reader of a paper, or a speaker in the discussions which occurred on the sixial days.