Edward F. Hoffelt Biography


	This biography appears on pages 493-494 in "History of Dakota 
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				EDWARD F. HOFFELT. 

	Edward F. Hoffelt is a druggist of Estelline and, although 
independently connected with the business interests of the town for 
only four years, he is today regarded as one of the most progressive, 
capable and enterprising men there. His place of business is one of the 
most thoroughly modern and up-to-date drug stores in eastern South 
Dakota and it seems that the future must hold in store for him a 
substantial measure of success, because of the qualities which he has 
already displayed in the management of business interests. 

	Mr. Hoffelt was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on the 8th of 
February, 1888, a son of Peter and Ida (Brandt) Hoffelt. He remained in 
his native city through the period of his boyhood and was educated in 
the public schools of St. Paul until he reached the age of sixteen 
years, when, in 1904, he located in Estelline, where he began his 
career as a druggist by securing a position in the drug store of Lohr & 
Lohr, thus laying the foundation for a pharmaceutical education and 
career. He was employed in the store for seven years and on the 1st of 
January, 1909, he entered the Minnesota Institute of Pharmacy at 
Minneapolis, from which he was graduated in April of that year. On his 
examination before the state board of South Dakota he passed with the 
highest general average of any candidate for three years. An extract 
from the annual report of the South Dakota State Board and 
Pharmaceutical Association of 1909 has this to say: "Mr. Hoffelt 
obtained the highest general average of any candidate for three years. 
This was his first and only examination before any board of pharmacy. 
Last year the American Pharmaceutical Association gave a membership to 
the most deserving candidate appearing before our board, but this year 
it was withdrawn and we therefore recommend that the association change 
the rule adopted a few years ago, granting a membership in the American 
Pharmaceutical Association for a prize paper at each annual meeting and 
that our board be authorized to give this membership to the most worthy 
candidate appearing for examination during the year, and if this action 
is taken we unanimously and most heartily select the name of Mr. Edward 
F. Hoffelt for such honors for the year just closing." 

	In 1911 Mr. Hoffelt resigned his position with the firm of Lohr & 
Lohr and established himself in business in Estelline, outfitting a 
store the equal of which is seldom to be seen outside a city of much 
greater magnitude. Occupying one full side of the store is a stock of 
modern silverware and jewelry, such as might be displayed ill a city of 
ten thousand population. He carries a most full and attractive line of 
drugs and druggists, sundries. and the rear of his prescription counter 
is as clean and orderly as the front part of the store. The basement is 
also a display room, in one section of which he operates his own 
carbonating plant. 

	In 1910 Mr. Hoffelt was married to Miss Eva Lohr, a daughter of 
Charles H. Lohr, one of his former employers, and they have become 
parents of two children, Charles E, and May V. In politics Mr. Hoffelt 
is a progressive republican, feeling that he has taken a step in 
advance in thus allying himself with the movement that seeks to make 
the party rule that of the majority and not that of a machine. 
Fraternally he is connected with Kuhrum Lodge, No. 96, A. F. & A. M.; 
Estelline Lodge, No. 196, I. O. O. F.; and the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. One speaking of him in the parlance of the day said that he is 
a live wire; another said that he is an efficiency man. In a word, he 
is capable, wide-awake and alert. He recognized the fact that progress 
is a cumulative process and that where there is no advancement there 
has been no effort. He knows, too, that opportunity is universal, not 
local, and that success depends upon the best possible utilization of 
every moment.