Sophia Curtiss Hoffman

Sophia Curtiss Hoffman (, Curtiss; also known as, Mrs. George Hoffman; 1825 – September 12, 1905) was an American philanthropist, known as the Helen Gould of the early 1870s. She was the founder of the benevolent institution known as the Chapin Home for the Aged, in New York City. She was also numbered among the reformers, as one of the first treasurers of the Association for the Advancement of Women, and a vice-president of the Woman's Centenary Association of the Universalist Church.

Early life and education Sophia Curtiss was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, in 1825.

She was educated in the girls' academy at Great Barrington, Massachusetts. 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. Once the possessor of a fortune, she died comparatively poor. Her only possession out of a once stately property in real estate was a small cottage in Manhattan.