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THE SCHOOL 3 THE KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF LAW PRESIDENT Hon. Oliver H. Dean VICE-PRESlDENTS Hon. Sanford B. Ladd Hon. R. lngraham Hon. Wm. P. Borland DEAN Hon. Edward D. Ellison SECRETARY AND TREASURER Mr. Elmer N. Powell REGISTRAR Mr. Ben E. Todd EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Hon. Oliver H. Dean Hon. R. lngraham Hon. Edward D. Ellison The origin of the Kansas City School of Law dates back into the past century. There had been one or two previous attempts to start a law school in Kansas City which did not meet with sufficient success to warrant their continuance. Some of the members of the bar, however, felt that there was need of a school which would offer an opportunity for legal study, combined with practical experience, which could be arranged by offering lectures at night. This belief crystallized in the spring and early summer of 1895, when a small but determined group of prominent lawyers decided to launch a night law school. 4 Arrangements were made with the Kansas City Real Estate and Stock Exchange for the use of their rooms on the second Hoor of the New York Life Building Annex on Delaware Street, the privilege of the library of the Kansas City Law Library Association in the Court House was secured, and a fourteen- page announcement was issued. The Faculty as given in the catalog numbered six: Hon. Francis M. Black fLecturer on Personal Property and Equity Jurisprudencej, Hon. Charles L. Dobson CLecturer on Corporationsj, Hon. Edward L. Scarritt fLecturer on Bills, Notes and Commercial Paper and Real Propertyj, Hon. Edward H. Stiles fLecturer on Torts and Domestic Relationsj, Mr. john W. Snyder fLecturer on Agency and Partnershipl, and Mr. William P. Borland fDean and Lecturer on Contracts and Bailmentsj. The school was incorporated August 17, lS95, under the laws of the State of Missouri providing for eleemosynary corporations, by the following incorporators: judge Francis M. Black, Hon. Oliver H. Dean, Hon. Sanford B. Ladd, Judge Edward L. Scarritt, Judge Edward H. Stiles, Hon. R. ln-
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