Alice Green Hoffman was the daughter of Albert W. Green of Green-Joyce Company and the granddaughter of Theron R. Butler. She was the sister of Grace Green Alexander and Mary Butler Green Hartwell and the aunt of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. She was also the cousin of Ohio Supreme Court Justice Edward G. Matthias. Mrs. Hoffman was a resident of Paris, France; of New York where she was involved in real estate; and of Carteret County, North Carolina, where she was involved in developing a dairy cattle herd and other agricultural interests on Bogue Banks.