Kansas City School of Law - Pandex Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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TO HON. JAMES S. BOTSFORD, OUR LECTURER AND FRIEND, THIS THE FOURTH VOLUME OF THE P.-XNDEX IS RES PECTFULLY DEDICATED.

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. 5 Hon. James Slierman Botsford. l,vft111't'1' on I3 Mr. James Sherman Botsford has been a member of the faculty of the Kansas City School of Law since 1905 in the ca- pacity of lecturer on Equity .lurispru- dence. Mr. Botsford was born June 10, 1844, near Waukesha, Wisconsin. His parents were from Oneida county, New York, He comes from a hardy and long-lived race, His grandmother lived to be ninety-five years of age, and his mother was eighty- seven years of age at her death in 1907. He was educated in the common and high schools of Wisconsin and of Illinois. Hc was only seven years old at the time ofthe death of his father, and at fourteen years of age he left home and began to rely wholly on his own efforts and indus- try. At the beginning: of the Civil war he left school and enlisted in the army as a member of the Fifth Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers. He served in the Army of the Potomac under McClelland, Burn- sitlcs, Hooker, Meade and Grant until the battle of the Wilderness, in which he was severely wounded in the right shoul- der. After lying in an army hospital for several weeks he was honorably dis- charged on account of his wounds. This was in September, 1364. He then returned to his studies at school. Later he studied law and was ad- mitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois in INCH. quit -4 x' f111'i.vfu'1lz1U11t'v. He moved to Sedalia. Missouri. in the same year, and began the practice of law. ln 1870, he was city attorney of Sedalia. and in 1871 was appointed by President Grant United States District Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, which office he held until 1877, residing in the meantime at Jefferson City, Mis- souri. During his term of office as United States District Attorney. he prosecuted the whiskey ring for frauds against the internal revenue laws of the United States, and obtained the first convictions that were ever secured in those famous trials. In 1879 he removed to Kansas City and entered the general practice of the law in partnership with the late M. T. C. XVil- liams. ln 189.5 he became the senior member of the firm of Botsford, Deatheie age 8: Young-now Botstord, Deatherage, Young QQ Creason. Mr. Botsford has be-on engaged in many important law suits, and has had an ex- tensive and wide experience as a practi- tioner. l-Ie is considered by the legal pio- fession of this city as one of the best read lawyers at the Kansas City bar, and one whose legal lore is based upon a well grounded knowledge of the elementary principles of the law, aided and strength- ened by a full knowledge of tht- modern decisions and principles nvct-ssary to meet modern conditions.