A. J. HOFFERT, who is foreman of the car department of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Bradford, Ohio, has been in the railroad service since 1888 and has had much experience. He was born at Bremen, Fairfield County, Ohio, May 22, 1868, and is a son of Philoman and Catherine Hoffert.

A. J. Hoffert resided at Bremen through his school days and was eighteen years of age when he went to Indianapolis and from there to Brightwood, where he learned car building. He worked there for two years for the old Bee line, was then at Denver, Colorado, for a year with the Union Pacific and for eight months for the same road worked at Salt Lake City, after that he pushed on to Portland, Oregon, and during the three months he remained there, he worked as a house carpenter. He then went to San Francisco and for three years as in the employ of the Southern Pacific. The great World's Fair at Chicago led him eastward again, and after enjoying it he returned to Indianapolis, where he worked as a house carpenter for a year and then resumed railroad work with the Panhandle line. On April 1, 1902, he came to Bradford to accept his present position, one which he has most efficiently filled ever since. Mr. Hoffert married Miss Maria C. Scholl, and they have two children, Ruth and Helen. He is a member of Capital City Lodge, No. 97, Knights of Pythias of Indianapolis; and of Yukon Tribe, No. 312, Improved Order of Red Men, also of Indianapolis.