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

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iKnhvr1 3. Zlllgfilllillll i ,T1qU1ilili'l' .I. INCRAHAM, horn in Coshocton, Ohio, on the 24th day 3 of January, 1864, departed this life on the 23rd day of March, 1919, at his residence on Warwick Boulevard in this city. ' His parents were Dr. James B. lngraham and Sarah Elizabeth Guthrie lngraham, and the admiration of the son for the sterling character of his father, the leading surgeon of Coshocton, and his love and respect for his mother bespoke the fact to his more intimate friends, with whom he fre- quently talked on this favorite subject. that the high and noble qualities which inspired the life of Robert J. Ingraham, and so closely bound him to a multitude of friends, had their origin at birth and were carefully nurtured in the family home. ln the highest and best sense his life was a success. Not perhaps in the accumulation of money, for this was always an incident merely, and never an incentive in the practice of the profession which he loved so and honored. He was never tempted by the allurements of office or the pride of placeg but when occasion called upon him to serve his city or his state he cheerfully sacrificed his time and devoted his talents to the task. As City Counselor he continued to strive in an official, as he had always done in a private capacity, for the welfare and progress of Kansas Cityg and in the discharge of the duties of that oflice he had the entire confidence of the community and soon established for himself a reputation with the Bar and public generally an expert in Municipal Law--a branch of his profession which seemed peculiarly attractive to him. He was one of the organizers of the Kansas City School of Law. He gave freely of his time, and by his counsel and advice was one of the main factors in building up the school. He delivered the first year a course of lectures on Criminal Law, and for many years was the lecturer upon the subject of Torts, and during the latter years of his life he lectured upon Public Corporations. Mr. Ingraham left surviving him a wife and two children, Margaret and Robert J. Ingraham, Jr. Every duty and obligation of life he resolutely met and fully dischargedg tender and affectionate in his homeg generous to his friendsg loyal to his clients and devoted to their serviceg a public-spirited citizen and patriot. The writer of this brief and inadequate memorial finds in one of his favorite books this passage marked by Mr. 1ngraham's hand. To love something more than one's self--that is the secret of all that is great: to know how to live for others - that is the goal of every noble aspiration. This precept hy which he lived may now well be his epitaph. JosEPH A. GUTHIIIE.

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william Elgntiminn Enrlanh ILLIAM PATTERSON BORLAND, born in Leavenworth, Kansas, on October 14, 1867, sprang from a family whose lives were closely interwoven with American history. His ancestor, William Pat- terson, came to this country during the Revolutionary War, locating in Maryland, and history records that there was no citizen of that common- wealth who did more constructive work for his state during that war, and the War of 1812, than did William Patterson. William P. Borland came with his family to Kansas City in 1880, re- ceiving his early education in our public schools, attending the Franklin Ward School and the Central High School. He then entered the law office of Pratt, Ferry Sz Hagerman, and after reading law there for a time, was appointed claim agent of the Wyandotet and Northwestern Railway. He had started out with the idea of being a lawyer, and this work never diverted him from his original plans. On the contrary, it was merely a step in his legal education, for after two years of this work, he went to Ann Arbor and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan, in 1892, as an Honor man, with the degree of LL.B. lt was at this time that a number of young men, fresh from their alma maters, formed a law class for the purpose of continuing their legal studies, and from this was developed the Kansas City School of Law, in which organiza- tion Mr. Borland was most active. g At the beginning in 1895, he was elected Dean, which position he contin- ued to hold until his election to Congress in 1908, when he resigned this active position, on account of his duties in Washington, and he was elected Vice- President of the Law School which position he continued to hold until the time of his death. He never for a moment lost his interest in the Law School, and his heart was wrapped up in the work, and to think of him is to- think of the Kansas City School of Law, There were three characteristics of his, which to my mind, stood out pre-emeninently: his courtesy, his industry and his courage. There was never a time when a student did not have the most courteous treatment from him, and it is reported that in the clash of opinions on the floor of the House of Representatives, in defeat as well as in triumph, he kept his temper, main- tained a judicial attitude and was uniformly courteous. His industry is shown in the vast amount of work that he accomplished. During these last ten years while has he been in Congress, he returned to Kan- sas City in the fall of the year and lectured three times a week, in addition to filling numerous other. speaking engagements, many times speaking at