Gertrude Hoffmann (dancer)

Gertrude Hoffman was an early 20thcentury vaudeville dancer and choreographer.

Catherine Kitty Gertrude Hay was born in San Francisco on the 7th of May, 1885, the daughter of John and Catherine Hay. Her father, who was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1843, came to California sometime before 1873. Catherine Brogan was born in Ireland around 1847 and came to America in the early 1860s. John and Catherine Hay moved to Portland, Oregon, where John died in 1914. Catherine Brogan Hay died in 1926 at the Long Island summer house of her daughter, Gertrude. Gertrude received her early education at a San Francisco area Catholic convent.

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