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COL. ROY HOFFMAN
Vol. 3, p. 1314

The name of Roy Hoffman has been too familiar to the people of
Oklahoma during the past twenty-five years to require any
introduction. Mr. Hoffman was on of the early attorneys who
represented the Untied States in some of the cases growing out of the
first settlement of Oklahoma's lands, and in addition to this many
years of active practice as a lawyer, founded the first democratic
daily newspaper, and was the editor and publisher.

He has been prominent in state affairs and politics, has served his
country as captain of Company K, First Territory Volunteer Infantry,
throughout the Spanish-American war, and has been a leading spirit in
the organization and maintenance of the National Guard of Oklahoma.
Colonel Hoffman resides at Oklahoma City.

Roy Hoffman was born in Neosho County, Kansas, June 3, 1869. His
father, Peter Hoffman, now deceased, was one of the pioneers in the
Sac and Fox Reservation of Oklahoma, and established the first bank
of Chandler. He was a native of Ohio. His wife's name was Julia
HAKINS, who was born in Vermont. It was in 1888 that the Hoffman
family established a home on the Sac and Fox Reservation in Oklahoma.
Peter Hoffman built up a large business as a general merchant, and
died at Chandler, February 20, 1912, at the age of seventy-one. He
was a life-long democrat and did considerable work in behalf of his
party. There are only two surviving children, the daughter being Mrs.
C. C. POTTINGER, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Col. Roy Hoffman grew up and received his early education in Neosho
County, Kansas, most of his boyhood having been spent on a farm.
After the public schools he attended a normal college, and came to
Oklahoma on the original opening day, April 22, 1899.

He was private secretary to Governor RENFROW, one of the first
governors of Oklahoma Territory, and after his admission to the bar
was employed by the United States Government in the prosecution of
some of the land fraud cases. He served five year as assistant United
States Attorney. He was also connected with the Cherokee Strip Bar
Association, and chairman of the State Board of Affairs, and district
judge of the Tenth Judicial District.

Colonel Hoffman has been foremost in promoting and organizing the
Oklahoma National Guard. His experience in the Spanish-American war
made him a firm believer in national preparedness, and upon his
return set about seeing that Oklahoma did its part in the work of
having a trained body of citizen soldiery. At the head of his force,
he quelled the last Indian outbreak in Oklahoma, know was the Crazy
Snake rebellion. Colonel Hoffman's active campaign for election to
the United States Senate is well remembered, when he was a competitor
of Senator Gore, and was defeated by only a few hundred votes.

Colonel Hoffman was married October 5, 1898, to Estelle CONKLIN, a
daughter of E. L. Conklin. Her father is well known pioneer, banker
and capitalist. Colonel Hoffman and wife have three children,
Dorothy, Margaret, and Roy, Jr. Fraternally Colonel Hoffman is
affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, is a thirty-third degree
Mason, and Odd Fellow and Elk. He is a member of the prominent low
firm of BURFORD, ROBERTSON & Hoffman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, one of
the strongest legal combinations now practicing in Oklahoma.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, October 7, 1998.