Charles Wheeler Hoffman
History of the State of Montana, by Joaquim Miller, 1894 

Charles Wheeler Hoffman was born in Niles, Michigan, 
September 2, 1846. He remained there until he was 
seventeen years old, receiving a common school education. 

In 1863 he went to Fort Randall, on the Missouri River, 
and when the military post at Fort Buford was established 
in 1866, he received the appointment as Post Sutler at 
that post. This was at that time the very heart of the 
Sioux country. Hostile indians surrounded Fort Buford 
nearly all the time and his life there was necessarily 
full of thrilling experiences and narrow escapes. 

In the fall of 1868 he returned east and was married at 
Buffalo, New York, April 27, 1869 to Elizabeth B. Penfield. 
Being appointed Sutler at Fort Ellis Montana, he brought 
his wife west immediately after their marriage and they 
have made their home at Bozeman ever since. Here Mr. 
Hoffman has been connected with many enterprises. He is 
now engaged 
in coal mining, merchandising, farming, stock raising 
and banking, being vice-president of the Bozeman National 
Bank. 

He has served as Alderman of the city of Bozeman and 
County Commissioner of Gallatin County. He was elected 
a member of the House of Representatives of the Fifteenth 
Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana, joint 
member for Gallatin and Meagher Counties of the Council 
of the Sixteenth Assembly, and when Montana became a state 
he was 
elected a member of the first State Senate and re-elected 
to the Second Assembly, being now the President pro tem of 
the Senate. 

Governor Leslie appointed him Quartermaster General on 
his staff and he has ever since served in that capacity, 
being re-appointed by Governors White, Tool and Rickards. 

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