Charles S. Loy
A member of the Grant County bar for the past ten years, Mr. Loy, while not an old resident of the county, has identified himself closely with the activities of this locality, and is one of the most progressive and influential citizens of Swayzee, which has been his home and place of practice since coming to Grant County.
Charles S. Loy was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1875, a son of Samuel and Jennetta (Foust) Loy. The father died at Orient, South Dakota, May 19, 1913, and the mother still lives there. The oldest of the family, Charles S. Loy, spent his boyhood days in Pennsylvania, in Kansas and afterwards in South Dakota, and received his early education in the common and high schools of these different localities. He was the first white child to appear in Faulk County, South Dakota, where the family took up their homestead during the pioneer times.
Later he attended the University of South Dakota at Vermilion, South Dakota, and from there came to Indiana, and entered the Northern Indiana Law School at Valparaiso, where, after a full course, he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. on May 21, 1899, and admitted to the bar at the same time. He then moved to Chicago, where he was in the employ of the Deering Harvester Company, a concern which a year or so later became merged in the International Harvester Company. He continued with that great corporation until 1903, and then moved to Swayzee, where he began the practice of law, and has since done very well.
He is a member of the Grant County Bar Association, and has been admitted to all of the courts of the state, and to the circuit courts of the United States District Court in Indiana.
Mr. Loy was married April 12, 1902, in the city of Minneapolis to Miss Vera Grove, a native of Clinton County, Indiana, and a graduate of the Valparaiso schools. She taught school previous to her marriage in Clinton County, Indiana. They have one son, Gean, born September 5, 1903.
Mr. Loy is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of which he is a past chancellor. In politics he is a Republican, and both as a lawyer and citizen is a young man of much public spirit who readily co-operates in such movements and enterprises as tend to advance the general welfare of the county.
Submitted by: Gina Reasoner