Harvey Iola Loffer

  General Notes:

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 years 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) LofTer. the former a native of Pickaway county and the latter of Shelby county, Ohio. The paternal grandfather, Solomon Lotfer, 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 lias been an excellent record in the justice court, for out of nine hundred cases 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 25th of December. 1901. Mr. LofTor was united in marriage to Miss Delia 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 Inde
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.

Harvey married Della Hill, daughter of Daniel Hill and Sarah Young, in 1903. (Della Hill was born in 1875 in Ohio.)