Biography of Earl Leon Shoup



Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. 

Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912.



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EARL LEON SHOUP was born at Leon, Butler county, Kansas, May 1, 1886. He is the son of Levi H. Shoup, of German descent, 

who came to Kansas in 1876 and settled near Whiting, Jackson county. He was formerly of Bryan, Williams county, Ohio. Alice 

Campbell, the mother, of Irish descent, came to Kansas from Kentucky with her parents in 1870 and settled near Whiting. 

Earl Leon Shoup graduated from Campbell College, at Holton, and Washburn College, Topeka, in 1911. He has always lived in 

Kansas, except eleven months in New Mexico. He taught a district school in Jackson county, and is now engaged in the county 

high school at Kingman. Kan.



(Included with the article "Indian Missions in Kansas", page 65)