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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

DAVID HUME RICE.

    David Hume Rice, of Colorado Springs, who has been identified in former
years with the medical profession and with important business interests, still
retaining the presidency of the Colorado Springs & Interurban Street Railway
Company, was born on a farm in Adams county, Illinois, in 1855. His father,
William D. Rice, was a native of Rising Sun, Indiana, born in 1823, and was
married in Illinois to Martha Staker. The father died in 1873 and the mother in
1909.

    The youthful experiences of David H. Rice were those of the farm-bred boy
who divides his time between the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the
playground and the tasks assigned him by parental authority. After leaving the
schools he determined to enter upon a professional career and in carrying out
his purpose became a student in the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis, in
which he pursued the full course and was graduated with the class of 1885. His
identification with Colorado Springs dates from 1888. in which year he opened an
office and entered upon the practice of medicine. For many years he followed his
profession with excellent success but for some time has not engaged in active
practice, having retired from the practice of medicine in 1910. He had been
physician to the late W. S. Stratton, Colorado millionaire, and appreciation of
his worth and ability on the part of the Stratton family led to his appointment
as managing director of the Stratton Home. He is now president of the Colorado
Springs & Interurban Street Railway Company, is the president of the Myra
Stratton Home and a director of the Exchange National Bank. His political
endorsement is given to the republican party and at all times he has kept in
touch with the vital problems of the country which become matters of state and
national legislation, but the honors and emoluments of office have had no
attraction for him.

    In 1882 in Adams county, Illinois, Mr. Rice was united in marriage to Miss
Ida M. McClaske and they have a daughter, Ethel Hume.

    Mr. Rice is a Mason, having taken the degrees of the York and Scottish Rites
and also of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise connected with the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks. He has membership in the El Paso Club and the
Broadmoor Golf Club. He is a man of dynamic force, carrying forward to
successful completion whatever he undertakes. His plans are always carefully
considered and promptly executed. His powers of concentration enable him to
readily grasp every phase of any situation and, acquainted with principle and
detail, he readily places a correct valuation thereon. With him time and
opportunity have been used to the best possible advantage and marked ability on
his part has found tangible expression in the substantial success which he has
achieved, becoming in the course of his residence in Colorado Springs one of its
popular and. moreover, one of its most honored and respected citizens.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918



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