Lof, Dr. Anders J.O.; 1905 Bio, Pitkin County, Colorado
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Donated April 2001
Transcribed by Judy Crook <jlcrook@rof.net> from the book:
Progressive Men of Western Colorado 
Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill.

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Dr. Anders J.O. Lof.

     The life of a country physician, particularly in a new and 
unsettled section, is full of privation and toil.  There is no class of 
servants to humanity more useful to the community, and in point of 
fact, none more appreciated, however scant and unimpressive the 
evidences of approval may be in ordinary times.  When pain and anguish 
cloud the brow the doctor becomes a ministering angel, affording solace 
in sorrow, relief in suffering, companionship in solitude and even 
consolation in death.  To this class of public benefactors belongs Dr. 
Anders J.O. Lof, of Aspen, this state, one of the most prominent and 
successful professional men in his portion of the state.  He came to 
this section in 1896, after an extensive and careful preparation for 
his life work secured at some of the best technical schools and in 
practical experience, and to it he has devoted all his energies and the 
results of continuous study and careful observation.  The Doctor was 
born on April 25, 1867, at Gottenborg, Sweden, where his parents, Lars 
and Mary (Johnson) Lof, were also native.  The father was a successful 
and prosperous merchant tailor, working industriously and living 
frugally until his death in 1879.  The mother is still living in her 
native land.  They had two children, the Doctor and his brother August, 
the latter a resident of Sweden and profitably engaged in the pursuit 
of his father, merchant tailoring.  The Doctor attended the state 
schools of Sweden, then passed three years at a gymnasium.  After 
coming to America he entered the medical department of the Denver 
University, graduating in 1896.  Later in 1902 he pursued special 
courses in professional instruction at the Universities of Berlin and 
Vienna, hospitals in Sweden and London.  In 1896 he located at Aspen, 
where he has since been actively engaged in a general practice of 
medicine and surgery, and in the comparatively short time of his work 
here he has attained to a high rank in professional circles and won 
general commendation from the people for his skill and ability and the 
fidelity of his devotion to duty.  He is also warmly interested in the 
welfare of his county and state, and gives good and serviceable support 
to every commendable undertaking for their advancement.  In politics he 
is independent but by no means indifferent, and in every element of 
good citizenship his record is an example worthy of general imitation.  
He is one of Pitkin county's most esteem citizens and most popular men.

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