BIO: Leslie Montgomery KAUFFMAN, M.D., Kauffman, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 309
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LESLIE MONTGOMERY KAUFFMAN, M. D.

  L. M. Kauffman was born in 1869 at Kauffman, the son of Dr. George R. and 
Martha E. (Kiesecker) Kauffman.  He was educated at the Chambersburg Academy and 
at Gettysburg College.  He studied medicine with his father and after the usual 
course of lectures was graduated M. D. in 1893 from Bellevue Hospital Medical 
College, New York City.

  Dr. Kauffman began the practice of medicine with his father and succeeded to 
the practice at the latter's death, and has been in continuous practice at 
Kauffman to the present time.

  He was admitted into the Medical Society in 1895 and was President in 1904.  
He is a member of the Chambersburg Hospital Staff and a Trustee of Gettysburg 
College.

  Dr. Kauffman married Nellie Geiger of Shippensburg, Pa.  He is a Republican in 
politics and a member of the Greencastle Lutheran Church.

  Dr. Kauffman lives on the old homestead in a commodious colonial stone 
dwelling erected by the Fullertons prior to the time of the Revolutionary War.