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

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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

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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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PERE G. WALLMO. Pere Gustave Wallmo, of Middletown, Connecticut, was born in Sweden, February 13, 1871, and emigrated to the United States in 1885. Entered Yale College in 1889, but left in 1892 to accept a position in the War Departmentg resigned in 1894, and returned to Middletown, where he was engaged in newspaper work until December, ,when he returned to Washington as secretary to the Representative in Congress from the Second Dis- trict of Connecticut. HARRY O. WEAVER. Harry O. Weaver was born December 19, 1873, at Weaver's Station, near Greenville, Darke County, Ohiog moved to the latter town when twelve years of age and there received a common school education. f------ In 1890 went to Cleveland, Ohio, and grad- -3 , oilt, uated from the Spencerian Business College o,',,., in that cityg was engaged in clerical work ,'2t 'V-Vp,,. J i i',, 4 there until the latter part of 1893, when he ,V returned to Greenville. Took the Civil up L'1E In Service examination at Cincinnati, in Octo- ,,.: ber, 1894, and in November of the same - L year received an appointment to the U. S. Fish Commission, where he is at present npzl employed. Was married July 18, 1895, to , .i, if Miss Ida B. Maurer, of Greenville, Ohio. 70