Fremont County CO Archives Biographies.....Rupert, Leonidas Erskine March 16, 1871 - 
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Source: "History of Colorado," published by Linderman Co., Inc. Denver 1927
Author: James H. Baker & LeRoy R. Hafen, Ph D

Page 167

Dr. Leonidas Erskine Rupert, Florence physician and former coroner of Fremont
county, was born in the village of Rupert, Greenbrier county, West Virginia,
March 16, 1871, a son of Dr. Cyrus A. and Rachel Elizabeth (McClung) Rupert,
both also natives of that section of the Old Dominion now included within the
bounds of West Virginia, the former born at Point Pleasant and the latter in
Greenbrier county, and under his father’s preceptorship and through further
studies he was educated for the medical profession.  In 1907 he became
established in practice at Florence and so continues.  For several years he was
the local surgeon for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company.  On September 6,
1900, at Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, Dr. Rupert and Mary Todd were united in
marriage.  They are members of the Protestant Episcopal church and the Doctor is
senior warden of the parish with which they are connected.  He is a member of
the Local Study Club, is a Mason of high degree and a Noble of the Ancient
Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and is also affiliated with the
Modern Woodmen and the Woodmen of the World.

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