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

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. . FRED L. TARBOX. , Fred L. Tarbox, the subject of this sketch, was born at East Otto, in the West- ern part of New York state, and received clerking three years in a general merchan- dise store, he took a course in stenography at the College of Commerce at Buffalo, N. Y. Upon the completion of this course i he entered the law office of Duckwitz, Thayer 81: jackson, of the same city, as stenographer, which position he resigned one year later to accept a similar one with T. H. Dowd, of Salamanca, N. Y. Afterwards deciding to take a course in law, he entered the Class of ,Q7 of the Columbian Law School. Prefers criminal law as a specialty, and will locate in the state of New York. p JOHN L. THOMAS, IR. john Lilburn Thomas, Ir., was born lI1HlllSDOfO,I6ffQ1'SOD County ,. Mo , April 16, 1867. He was educated at the local public schools, afterwards graduating from the State University Business Col- lege. After several years of mercantile business and several years spent in the transportation depart- ment of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company, he came to Washiiigtoii City to take advantage of an offer to enter the Columbian Law School. He entered the Columbian, October 29, 1895, and hopes to finish a two years' course in May. It the desired sheep-skin is forthcoming, hewill return to Deming, New Mexico, where his wife has been spending the winter for her health, and there take up his profession. Mr. Thomas was 'selected as one of the representatives of the junior Class in the annual prize debate of 1896. his education in the district schools. After'

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AUGUSTUS F. SPECHT. Augustus Franklin Specht, of Alvira, Pennsylvania, was born July 24, 1874. He received a public school education, has held several important positions of trust, and for the last two years has been in the law oflices of Copp 81 Luckett, Washington, D. C. Was a member of the Class Execu- tive Committee during the junior year. Took an active part in the Debating Society, being a member of its executive committee, and representing his class on one of the public debates. Will probably locate to practice law in the mining regions of Eastern Pennsylvania. He is a Republican. WILLIS E. SULLIVAN. Willis Eugene Sullivan was born in Coffeeville, Kansas, in 1874. Soon after that his parents moved to Iowa, where he spent the earlier part of his life. In 1883 he went to the far West, making his home in Hailey, Idaho. After receiving a high school educa- tion, he entered the Willamette College at Salem, Oregon, in jan- uary, 1891, and remained during that school year. The follow- ing two years he attended the Portland University, graduating from the Acad- emy. Entered Columbian Law School in October, 1895, and was elected to the executive committee of his class for that year. Mr. Sullivan has been a factor in the .affairs ofthe Law School Debating Society, and has been selected as one of the two representatives of the class in the annual prize debate of 1897. His candid and cor- dial rnanners, slightly tempered by a Western frankness, have made him a host I L of friends.

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GEORGE P. TUCKER. George Prescott Tucker, of Omaha, Nebraska, is a native of Massachusettsg a graduate of the Fitchburg QMass.D High School, Class of 1881 3 and of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Class of rS87. Re- ceived the degree of B. S. at the latter in- stitution in the department of Chemistry. After grazluatioin he took Horace Greeley's advice and went West. For live years he was employed as an analytical chemist in Wyoming and Nebraska. Came to Washington in 1892 as an Assistant Examiner in the Patent Ollie, in Wllich office he is still employed. WARDER VOORHEES. t ' Warder Voorhees Was born at North '.' Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, September it f 4, 1865. which place is his present legal A Vvqpp I ' -1 ffvf i Q5 . fffSideHCC- l ,,.. fi 69