John J. Hoffman Biography


	This biography appears on page 1029 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				JOHN J. HOFFMAN

	John J. Hoffman is filling the position of county treasurer in 
Gregory county and is a faithful custodian of the public funds. He was 
born in Germany, September 27, 1887, his parents being John F. and Eva 
Hoffman. The father was a miller by trade, but turned his attention to 
farming, and in the year 1887 came with his family to the United 
States, making his way to Iowa, where he resided for a short time. He 
then removed to South Dakota and homesteaded in Gregory county, 
becoming one of its first settlers. He still owns the old homestead and 
gives careful supervision to its further development and improvement. 
His wife also survives. 

	John J. Hoffman, who was one of a family of eleven children, 
acquired his early education in the country schools and afterward 
continued his studies at Wilton, Iowa, at Redfield, South Dakota, in 
Fremont county, Nebraska, and in Boyle's Business College of Omaha. He 
left college at the request of John P. Behin, for whom he worked for 
eleven months in the office of the register of deeds. He then accepted 
a position in the Merchants & Farmers Bank at Dallas, continuing his 
connection with the bank, of which he is still a stockholder, until 
elected to the office of county treasurer in the fall of 1912. He at 
once entered upon the duties of the position and has displayed the same 
thoroughness and fidelity which characterized him in the conduct of his 
private business affairs. He made such an excellent record in office 
that he was reelected in the fall of 1914 and is now serving for the 
second term. 

	On the 26th of November, 1912, Mr. Hoffman was married to Miss 
Ruth E. Zimmerle, a daughter of John Zimmerle, and their children are 
Margaret M. and Phyllis C. Mr. Hoffman is a Protestant in religious 
faith, a Mason in his fraternal relations and a republican in his 
political views. He is much interested in South Dakota and its 
development and has ever displayed sterling traits of citizenship. His 
course in every relation of life has been such as to win for him 
respect and he is justly accounted one of the substantial citizens of 
his part of the state