University of Kansas School of Law - Shingle Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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DR. WM. L. BURDICK. Dr. Wm. L. Burdick, Associate Professor in the Kansas University Law School, was born in East Greenwich, R. I. After completing the work in the common schools, he entered East Greenwich Acad- emy, an old classical school, situated on Narragan- sett Bay. He was the valedictorian of his class, and four years later he graduated from Wesleyan University, taking both general and special honors. He was one of the Commencement orators. He was president of- his class, a member of the Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities, and played upon the baseball and football teams. Immediately after graduating from Wesleyan he became Instructor in Physics and Chemistry in EastGreenwich Academy. He studied Medicine for two years, and was exten- sively engaged in popular lecture courses in the cities and towns of New England. Deciding, finally, to enter the Law, he began its study in the oilice of Judge D. W. Northrop, Secretary of State of Co-n- necticut, and in 1886 he was admitted to the Con- necticut bar, the report of the examination commit- tee particularly commending him for his high stand- ing. In 1888-89 he spent a year at Harvard, taking graduate work in special lines. In 1891 he was called to Fargo College, Fargo, N. D., to take charge -of the educational work of that Congregational Col- lege. The following year he was called both to Carleton College and to the University of Colorado. Accepting the latter position, he was for three years the head of the Preparatory Department of the Uni- versity, and Latin Instructor in the Graduate School, In 1895 he was offered the Latin chair in the Ho-tch- kiss School, of Connecticut, at a salary of 53,000 This school is one of the notable high-grade fitting schools for Yale and Harvard. After two years in this school, Dr. Burdick resigned, intending to de- vote-himself henceforth to the Law. Expecting to practice in Connecticut, he entered the third year of the Yale Law School, graduated the following year, receiving the Governor Jewell Prize for highest standing in his class. Immediately he opened an oiiice in the city of Hartford, and that same fall was called to teach Law in the University of Kansas. He has traveled extensively, having been abroad three different times, and visiting all parts of Europe. He has embodied the results of his travels in a series of illustrated lectures, which he has extensively delivered in popular lecture courses. , iii' JAMES WILLIS GLEED Was born March 8, 1859, at Morrisville, Vt. His father, Thomas Gleed, a very SuCCeSSfH1 lawyer, died in 1861, leaving two sons, Willis and Charles Sumner, with the widowed mother, Mrs. Cornelia Fisk Gleed. Mrs. Gleed and her sons came to Kan- sas, and settled in Lawrence in 1866. Mr. Gleed en- tered Kansas University in 1875, and graduated in 1879 at the head of his class. He has since received the degree of A.M. from the University. He tutored in Latin and Greek at the University from 1879 to 1882, and during the absence in Europe of the pro- fessor of Greek he occupied the chair of Greek. The summer of 1883 was spent by him in Europe. In 1884 he graduated from the Columbia Law School. In October, 1884, he and his brother Charles opened a law oilice in Topeka. With them was associated for a time a prominent Lawrence attorney, George J. Barker. Willis' earliest success was, attained in connection with the celebrated Walruff and Mugler cases. No case in Kansas annals is more famous or more important than State fvs. Mugler, 29 Kan- sas'181. He wrote the brief which wo-n the case in the United States Supreme Court, Mugler cs. Kan- sas, 123 U S. 623, as he did the brief which later won the famous Walruff case, involving again the prohibitory issue. In 1893 the law firm of Gleed, VVare 85 Gleed was organized. In 1894 Willis was empl-oyed to represent the bondholders of a branch line of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad in litigation against the receivers. In 1886 he was em- ployed as the general solicitor for Kansas, for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. In 1885 Mr. Gleed was made Instructor in the Law of Real Prop- erty in our Law School. He has spent from a mo-nth to six weeks instructing our Law students in this branch of the Law each year since, with the ex- ception of a few years. iii' DAVID MARTIN Was born October 16, 1839, at Catawba, ClarkC3unty, Ohio. His father was born in London, England: his mother near Belfast, Ireland. He studied Law for several years before his admission to the bar, part of the time in the oflice of General J. Warren Keifer, of Springfield, Ohio. He served from June, 1863, until March, 1864, in Company C, 129th ohio Volunteer Infantry, in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in the Su- preme Court of Ohio in 1866, and began to practice at Marysville in Miami County, butvin the spring of 1867 removed to Kansas, and settled at Atchison, June 2d of that year, and has ever since lived there. He was City Attorney of Atchison for three years- 1872 to 1875. In 1880 he was elected Judge of the Second Judicial District, embracing Atchison, Don- iphan, Brown, and Nemaha Counties. In April, 1884, he was re-elected, but in April, 1887, he re- signed, to engage in the practice again. In April, 1895, he was appointed to the oflice of Chief Justice to fill a vacancy, and in November, 1895, he was elected by over 82,0000 majority to fill the remain- der of the vacancy, which expired in January, 1897, since which time he has been engaged in the prac- ..11..

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JUDGE DAVID MARTIN. J. W. GLEED

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JUDGE SAMUEL A. RIGGS. WILLIAM C. SPANGLER, A.B., LL. B