Ju­ly 18, 1858/9, Lit­tle­port, Io­wa.

De­cem­ber 31, 1929, Bak­ers­field, Cal­i­for­nia (she died while trav­el­ing by train from Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­fornia, to Port­land, Or­e­gon).

Hofer was ed­u­cat­ed at the Mt. Car­rol, Il­li­nois, Sem­in­a­ry and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Chicago. She taught mu­sic in the public schools of La Crosse, Wis­con­sin; Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois; and Ro­ches­ter, Min­ne­so­ta. She al­so taught at the Pes­ta­loz­zi-Froe­bel Teach­er’s Col­lege, Chi­ca­go; the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­fornia, the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Georg­ia, and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ten­nes­see, and man­aged mu­sic­al pro­grams for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. Her works in­clude:

• Christmas in Pea­sant France (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Clay­ton F. Sum­my, 1900)
• Children’s Sing­ing Games Old and New, 1901
• The New Vol­ume of Rhy­thms, March­es and Games, 1904
• Mother Na­ture and Her Child­ren
• Story of Beth­le­hem: A Christ­mas Play with Mu­sic, 1912
• Christmasse in Mer­rie Eng­land, 1915
• Seasonal Fes­tiv­als and Pa­geants (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Clay­ton F. Sum­my, 1916)
• Old Tunes New Rimes and Games (A. Flan­a­gan, 1917)
• Music for the Child World (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Clay­ton F. Sum­my, 1926)
• All the World a Danc­ing (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Clay­ton F. Sum­my, 1925)
• Popular Folk Games and Dances (A. Flan­ag­an, 1929)

1. Come, All Ye Shep­herds