Charles L. Loffler Biography


	This biography appears on page 707 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CHARLES L. LOFFLER, M. D., Is a native of the state of Iowa, 
having been born in Hampton county, on the 4th of July, 1871, and being 
a son of Charles and Mary R. (Bowman) Loffler, who are now residents of 
Yankton, South Dakota, having been numbered among the honored pioneers 
of South Dakota, whither they came in the territorial epoch. When the 
subject was but six months of age his parents removed from Iowa to 
Yankton, South Dakota, and there he received his early educational 
training in the public schools, while later he continued his studies in 
the Yankton College. He is a graduate of Barnes Medical College of St. 
Louis, Missouri, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1901. He 
was thereafter engaged in practice at different points in Iowa and 
South Dakota until November, 1902, when he permanently established 
himself for the practice of his special branches in the city of Sioux 
Falls, where he has met with marked success, his office being located 
in the Minnehaha building. Dr. Loffler holds state certificates to 
practice in South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, 
Oklahoma and Kansas. Fraternally he has attained the thirty-second 
degree of Scottish Rite Masonry, is also identified with the Ancient 
Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, with the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, with the Knights of Pythias and with Lodge No. 
262, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Sioux Falls.  

	On the 22d of December, 1895, Dr. Loffler was united in marriage 
to Miss Marie M. Dresselhuys, of Lamars, Iowa. They have no children.