Charles T. Schroyer, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 181-182 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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			CHARLES T. SCHROYER, M. D.  

	Dr. Charles T. Schroyer, a practicing physician of Sioux Falls, 
was born in Adamsville, Ohio, on the 27th of July, 1876, a son of Peter 
C. and Emma Schroyer. The father has always followed farming and stock-
raising, thus providing for the support of his family. He sent his son 
Charles to the public schools and in mastering his studies the boy 
displayed special aptitude, so that he taught one term of school when 
but thirteen years of age. The succeeding year he entered the Ohio 
State University, from which he was graduated in 1898, having completed 
the medical course. He located for practice. in Adams Mills, Ohio, 
where he remained for about one year, when, thinking that better 
opportunities might be enjoyed in the new and growing northwest, he 
came to South Dakota, settling at Baltic, where he remained for ten 
years. On the expiration of that decade he removed to Chester, where 
for four years he successfully engaged in practice, his professional 
duties becoming more and more extensive and important and thus making 
heavier demands upon his time. He likewise became a stockholder in the 
Farmers State Bank while having his abode in Chester. In January, 1915, 
he removed to Sioux Falls and opened an office in the Minnehaha 
building. For many years he has been making a specialty of the 
treatment of cancer and he has met with such marked success therein 
that of late years he has devoted his time exclusively to the treatment 
of that disease.  

	On the 2d of October, 1900, Dr. Schroyer was united in marriage 
to Miss Hilda Holmes, a daughter of George Holmes. They have four 
children, namely: Doxie, Maurice, Denver and Chester. The religious 
faith of Dr. and Mrs. Schroyer is that of the Methodist church and they 
manifest a helpful interest in its work. He is prominently known in 
fraternal circles, holding membership with the Masons at Colton, the 
Elks at Sioux Falls and the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen and 
the Modern Brotherhood of America, all at Chester. In the Elks lodge at 
Sioux Falls he is a charter member. His political allegiance is given 
to the democratic party but he does not seek nor desire public office, 
preferring to concentrate his energies upon his professional duties. He 
enjoys the automobile and other forms of outdoor sport and thus he 
maintains that even balance in physical and mental development and 
power that means so much to every professional man. He is conscientious 
in the performance of all his professional duties, never regarding 
lightly the work that he has undertaken, and his ready sympathy and 
intuition as well as his scientific knowledge have been factors in his 
growing success.