Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Charles Wheeler HOFFMAN
In the mid 1860's he went West to the Dakota Territory. He met and married Annie Dawson, daughter of Andrew Dawson (from Scotland) and Indian woman of Arickara blood. They had a son: Charles Ward Hoffman b. January 7, 1868 at Fort Berthold, North Dakota. In the Spring Charles left to go downriver to sell pelts. While he was gone Annie's Indian family told her that Charles had been killed by Indian foes, and took her home. When Charles returned later in the summer or early fall, he was told that she and the boy were killed by Indian foes. He left broken hearted and headed back East. There he married
Miss Elizabeth B. Penfield on April 27, 1869 in Buffalo, New York. She was the daughter of George W. and Jean Eliza (Van Ness) Penfield. They later came to the Montana Territory were he was appointed Sutler at Fort Ellis near Bozeman, Montana. He was President of the Bozeman National Bank and was the Representive 15th Territory Assembly of Montana. Father and son were not to cross paths until Charles Ward was a young man. He was raised in the Indian Village--Like-Fish-Hook-Village on the Fort Berthold Indain Reservation. He was sent to school at Santee Nebraska and later attended College in Vermont. He came back to the Reservation and started the first Indian School there. He married Carolette Smith on August 1, 1895 at Bismarck, North Dakota.
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