Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "William S. Hofstra (1861–1932) was a Dutch-American lumber entrepreneur who is the namesake of Hofstra University. William S. Hofstra was born in Michigan in 1861 to Dutch immigrant parents, Sake Hofstra and Wilhelmina Zageweg. His family came from the province of Friesland, where an ancestor lived on an estate named \"Hoflandstra,\" which in Frisian means \"from\" the \"courtyard\" or \"farm.\" The name \"Hoflandstra\" was eventually shortened to Hofstra. William grew up in various cities in Michigan."@en }
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- William_S._Hofstra comment "William S. Hofstra (1861–1932) was a Dutch-American lumber entrepreneur who is the namesake of Hofstra University. William S. Hofstra was born in Michigan in 1861 to Dutch immigrant parents, Sake Hofstra and Wilhelmina Zageweg. His family came from the province of Friesland, where an ancestor lived on an estate named \"Hoflandstra,\" which in Frisian means \"from\" the \"courtyard\" or \"farm.\" The name \"Hoflandstra\" was eventually shortened to Hofstra. William grew up in various cities in Michigan.".