Alamosa-Conejos County CO Archives Biographies.....Wingert, Leonard M. January 13, 1869 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Victoria Hotel Company.  Leonard M. Wingert, the other active factor in

conducting the business of the hotel, is an old-timer in Colorado, having come

to the state in 1877, and thoroughly understands the wants and customs of the

people here.  He was born on January 13, 1869, near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania,

and there attended the district schools, receiving a good business education. 

After his arrival in Colorado he devoted many years to running stationary

engines for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company at Florence and the Florence

Metallic Extraction Company.  Since 1900 he has been actively associated with

Mrs. Shields in the practical management of the Victoria Hotel.  He is congenial

and obliging, and has a widely extended and favorable reputation for his

business sense and genuine and elevated good-fellowship.  He is a member of the

Masonic lodge at Alamosa and of the Knights of Pythias lodge at Canon City, and

in politics is a firm and loyal Republican. On October 25, 1899, he was married

to Miss Mattie Bowlby, a native of Ohio.  They have one daughter, Frances Ellen,

who was born on September 20, 1903.  Mr. Wright is a son of Adam B. and Rebecca

Wingert, natives of Franklin county, Pennsylvania.  They were always farmers and

successful at the business.  In 1877 they came to Colorado and located at

Pueblo, having lived a short time in  Kansas.  The mother died on July 31, 1889,

and the father on March 14, 1905, at Seattle, Washington.  

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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