Teller County CO Archives Biographies.....King, Walter Woodruff ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 August 8, 2009, 11:29 pm Source: See Additional Comments Below Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1919) WALTER WOODRUFF KING, M. D. Dr. Walter Woodruff King, who has won and maintained an enviable reputation as the leading physician of Teller county, has been actively and continuously engaged in practice at Cripple Creek for the past sixteen years. His birth occurred in Lindenville. Ohio, in 1873, a son of John Wilson and Nellie H. (Woodruff) King, who were born, reared and married in the Buckeye state. The father, who devoted his life to preaching the gospel as a minister of the Methodist church, passed away in Lodi, Ohio, in 1915. The mother, however, still survives and makes her home in Geneva, Ohio. Walter W. King acquired his early education in Ashtabula county, Ohio, and later pursued a high school course in Cortland, that state. He then began preparing for the practice of his chosen profession, spending three years in the Gross Medical College of Denver, while in 1902 he won the degree of M. D. from The University of Colorado at Boulder. In July of that year he opened an office at Cripple Creek, where he has remained continuously to the present time, having built up what is by far the largest practice in Teller county. He has repeatedly demonstrated his skill and ability in successfully coping with the intricate problems which continually confront the physician in his efforts to restore health and prolong life and has long been accorded a leading position in professional circles in his part of the state. He is likewise identified with financial interests as a director of the Cripple Creek State Bank. In 1903, in Cripple Creek, Colorado, Dr. King was united in marriage to Miss Myrta Hope Mitchner, by whom he has a daughter, Virginia Harriette. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party and fraternally is a York and Scottish Rite Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He has also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and is likewise connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He also belongs to the Athletic Club of Denver and his pleasing personality and many excellent traits of character have won him popularity wherever he is known. Someone said of him that he hadn't an enemy in Teller county. He conforms his practice to the highest standard of professional ethics, while in every other relation his course has been above reproach. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF COLORADO ILLUSTRATED VOLUME III CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1918 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/teller/bios/king294nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cofiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb