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

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L .f, .A,,b ----- . LEON LAMAR DYE. lv 7 F A f,,, 1' .... 7 ,AVA Leon Lamai Dye was born at Gloster, 1 ,g Ainite County, Miss., November 21, 1871. His early education was acquired in the . SQ' public schools, but at the age of eighteen he entered Mississippi College at Clinton, A where he was a student for three years. J - . . After leaving college in 1892 he began Z , . . . . teaching in the public schools of his state, 'I and continued that work until May IO, 1895, V .J I ' ' ' 'vw' when he resigned to accept a position in the Treasury Department. He intends to practice in his native state. WILLIAM LEWIS ENGLISH. William Lewis English, the junior member of the class, son of the late Lieutenant W'illiam L, English, U. S. A., was born at jackson- ville, Illinois, on April 16, 1878. Though Illinois has always remained his home, much of his life has been spent in Washing- ton, and he graduated from the Central High School in 1895. Having a decided preference for the law, he declined an appoint- ment to the Military Academy at NVest Point, and began the study of his chosen profession at Columbian Univer- sity. By ancestry he is Scotch-Irish, though as long ago as 1638 the first English of this branch settled in America, and later the great-grandfather of the present English, though a Quaker, shouldered his musket in the cause of the struggling colonies. Mr. English has not yet decided on his future location, but he thinks that somewhere in the middle W'est he will hang out his shingle and seek fame and fortune. 47

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JOHN H. DE WITT. John Hibbett DeWitt, of Nashville, was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, Sep- tember 2I, 1872, and received his prepara- tory education in the schools of Nashville. Entered Vanderbilt University in ISQO, and was graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1894. Was editor-in-chief of his college newspaper, and represented Vanderbilt in the Southern Inter-Collegiate Oratorical Contest at Sewanee, Tenn., in May, 1894. After graduation he became Associate Principal of the Lawrenceburg QTenn.j Institute, and later declined the position of Principal to accept a call to the Professorship of Latin and Mathematics in the Clark School for Young Ladies at Nashville. In September, 1896, he entered the present Law class, having studied law pri- vately, and in that year accepted the position of instructor in the Washington College for Young Ladies CEckingtonj. Was one of the winners in the public debate of january 16, 1897. Mr. DeWitt is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and has been a delegate to two of its National Conventions 3 also of the legal fra- ternity of Phi Delta Phi. HENRY' PELOUSE DooL1TTLE. Henry Pelouse Doolittle was born in W'asl1ington, D. C., Octo- ber Io, 1874, and has always lived in the city of his birth, except for a period of about six years when he resided in Virginia. He was graduated from the Washington High School in 1893, and in the following year entered the office of his father, where he has since been en- gaged in the study of law and in practice before the Patent Ofhce. Upon completion A of his course of law study, he expects to engage in the practice of his profession, and will probably make a specialty of patent law. In politics Mr. Doolittle is a Repub- lican. I-Ie is a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.

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EDWARD STUYVESANT FRITH. Edvvard Stuyvesant Frith was born in New York City. He moved to Denver, Col., When very young. From Denver he Went to Kansas City, Mo., and thence in 1886 to Nashville, Tenn., his present legal residence. His early education was received at the Kansas City and Nashville public schools. In September, 1889, he entered as a clerk the law ofhce of Dickinson and Frazer, Nashville, Tenn. CML Dickinson was appointed Assistant Attorney-General by President Cleveland in February, 1895.5 In 1894 he passed the bar examination at Nashville, and received a license to practice in Tennessee. Since july 1, 1895, he has lived in Washington, acting as conhdential clerk to General Dickinson. Part Il., Vol. 21, Opinions of the Attorneys-General H was edited by him in 1896. He represented the juniors on the Executive Committee of the Debating Society for the latter half of the last scholastic year, and now represents the Seniors on the saniecommittee. He was recently elected a speaker on a public' debate. A AUGUSTUS M. FULK. ' Augustus Marion Fulk, a native of Ar- kansas, was born at Little Rock, January 15, 1878. Was educated in the public schools, and graduated from the Peabody High School of that city. Came to Wash- ington iu 1895 to attend the Columbian Law School, and expects to locate in St. Louis. Mo., to practice. Was appointed to speak at one of the public debates of the Law School Debating Society. We