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Mari Ruef Hofer

Mari Ruef Hofer
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Short Name: Mari Ruef Hofer
Full Name: Hofer, Mari Ruef, 1858-1929
Birth Year: 1858
Death Year: 1929

Born: July 18, 1858/9, Littleport, Iowa.
Died: December 31, 1929, Bakersfield, California (she died while traveling by train from Los Angeles, California, to Portland, Oregon).

Hofer was educated at the Mt. Carroll, 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)

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