George Washington University Law School - Class Book Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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WILLIAM B. CORWIN. I William Beson Corwin was born in Alle- gheny City, Pennsylvania, but has lived the greater part of his life in Pittsburg, and is a graduate from the Central High School of that city. For a short time after his graduation he was in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Later he entered the employ of Bakewell 81 Kerr, now Bakewell SL Bakewell, patent lawyers of Pittsburg, and continued with them until the Spring of 1895, when he came to Washington and engaged in the patent business on his own account. JAMES LOUIS COUSAR. james Louis Cousar was born near Oxford, Mississippi, November 15, 1872g moved to Arkansas with his father in 1887. Attended the common schools of Mississippi and Arkansas in the Winter, working on the farm the remainder of the year, until 1892. Taught during 1892 and 1893. Came to Washington in August, 1893, to accept a clerkship in the Government Printing Oliice. Entered the Corcoran Scientiiic School in October, 1893, where he studied two years. In 1895 he began the study of the law in Columbian University. He is President of the Columbian Law School Debating Society g a member of Phi . Delta Phi fraternity, a Democrat in poli- tics, and expects to practice law in the far West. ' 9 EMM . Adowwgggzgwwjiwfwsaf

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LINDLEY, D. CLARK. Lindley Daniel Clark recognizes a farm near Carthage, Indiana, as the place. and jan- uary 26, 1862, as the date of his arrival upon the stage of this sphere's activities. School and farm work divided histime until 1886, when he completed the Classical course at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, hav- ing previously taught two years in the pub- lic schools of that State. In December of the same year he married a classmate. Maria E. Young, of Ohio, since deceased. He continued the work of teaching until 1892, when a Civil Service examination was taken at Knoxville, Tennessee, and an appointment to the U. S. Department of Labor followed. Though a Tennesseean by adoption, Mr. Clark looks with favor upon his native State as a field in which to engage in the practice of law. HENRY A. CONNER. Henry A. Conner is one of the two rep- resentatives of the far-away State of Califor- nia in the Class of 797, he having been born in San Francisco September 2, 1872. Mr. Conner is at present a resident of Wash- ington, but has not determined his future location, or what branch of law he will follow. Is a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. 4I

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WILLIAM M. CROOK. William McKissack Crook, of Groveton, Texas, was born in Maury County, Ten- nessee, December 25, 1874. He was edu- cated in the public and academic schools, . and attributes his greatest mental discipline to close application outside the school room. Compelled to climb a ladder of his own making, he realizes the toil and privation attendant upon material progress. Taught for three years in the public schools of Texas, his adopted State, which, in 1894, awarded him her highest Teachers' Certiiicate for proiiciency. In that year the disabili- ties imposed by minority were removed, and he was appointed District Clerk, jam lem, for Trinity County. In 1895-6 he was a member of the Junior Law Class at Vanderbilt University, Nash- ville. The deserved fame of Columbian attracted him, and he was pleased to enroll himself as a candidate for its degree of Bachelor of Laws. Mr. Crook will locate at Houston. FRED C. CROXTON. Fred C. Croxton was born May 3, I87I, on a farm near Huntsville, Illinois, where he resided until he reached his majority. Attended the public schools and the Gem City Business College, of Quincy, Illinois. Taught two years in the county schools of his native state. Took the Civil Service Examinatidn in I8Q2, and received an ap- pointment to the Government Service in November of that year. Was married in December, 1894, to Miss Mattie M. Stocks. of Washington, D. C. ' 43