Harvey I. Loffer Biography


	This biography appears on pages 368-369 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				HARVEY I. LOFFER

	Harvey I. Loffer, a well known and able lawyer of Sioux Falls, 
who in November, 1912, was elected to the office of justice of the 
peace for a term of two year's after having previously filled out an 
unexpired term in that position, was born on a farm in Logan county, 
Ohio, March 13, 1874, his parents being Christian and Theresa Alice 
(Jackson) Loffer, the former a native of Pickaway county and the latter 
of Shelby county, Ohio. The paternal grandfather, Solomon Loffer, 
removed from Pennsylvania to the Buckeye state.  

	It was in the schools of Logan county that Judge Loffer pursued 
his early education and his professional training was obtained in the 
law department of the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, from which 
he was graduated with the class of 1899. He then went to Dell Rapids, 
South Dakota, where he remained for a year, after which he established 
his home in Montrose, this state, continuing there until January, 1904. 
On the latter date he removed to Sioux Falls and was cashier for an 
insurance company in that city until 1907, when he entered another 
insurance office, in which he continued for about three years. He 
afterward spent a year as head bookkeeper for a plow firm and in 1910 
entered upon the active practice of law. In January, 1911, he was 
appointed justice of the peace and in November of the following year 
was elected for a two years' term. His has been an excellent record in 
the justice court, for out of nine hundred eases brought before his 
court in Sioux Falls in fifteen months only eight have appealed from 
his decision and stood trial in the circuit court, and on no occasion 
has his decision ever been reversed by the higher tribunal. His 
knowledge of the law is comprehensive and exact and his ability to 
accurately apply its principles is manifest in the foregoing statement.  

	In Logan county, Ohio, on the 26th of December, 1901, Mr. Loffer 
was united in marriage to Miss Della Hill, a daughter of Daniel and 
Sarah (Young) Hill, and now have one child, Marion Wilson Loffer. The 
parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal church  and Judge Loffer 
also belongs to the Masonic lodge, the Knights of Pythias and the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His political allegiance has always 
been given to the republican party and it was upon that ticket that he 
was elected justice of the peace He is a thoughtful, earnest man, 
unfaltering in the support of his honest convictions and in the 
discharge of his duties is at all times conscientious and reliable.