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

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Our Alumni. Happy is a man who has had two mothers whom hereverences. How near akin are the two, his moither and his Alma Maier: WVe never hear of an Alma Pater. To the man of alert intellect, pure heart, and strong will the college represents a new birth and a new life. As is the mother, so is the love of the so11 5 and as inreal life the pride of the mother is in the son, so old Mother K. U. is proud of her sons who have gone out into the world. to exemplify the lessons here learned. Among those who have given her the most cause for a righteous pride, are her Law Alumni. They stand forth here, there, everywhere they have gone, shining lights worthy of the mother who set them forth. Theirs is the greatness of the single individual, for the very nature of the work required of the law- yer prevents the complete extinction of the individual. In no sphere of human activity is the rule of the survival of the Httestj' f-15 more perfectly exemplifded. It brings out the character of a man's mettle to be seen, known and awarded, while sham and shallowness are sure to be discovered and rebuked. Kansas University's best friends have been her Law Alumni. Our State's best citi- zens are many of them members of the bar. Where Kansas has given one of these men to a sister State, she has as ,often received in returned a like product, of which the com- mon brotherhood of the profession soon makes as one of Kansas' own sons. The Shingle is grateful to many of our leading Alumni, who have helped make pos- sible its existence, and is happy to devote, in small return, to them a few pages between its covers. And we wish success to each and every one of them, whether herein mentioned at length or not, who has hung out his shingle. ,fl

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Alumni Biographies. YVILDER S. METCALF, Colonel, was born at Milo, Maine, on September 10, 1855, and removcd with his parents to Elyria, O., in 1857, where he graduated from the public schools in 1872, and from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, in 1878. After nine years in the wholesale butter and cheese business in Wellington, Ohio, Col. Metcalf removed to Lawrence, Kansas, where he engaged in the farm mortgage business as junior partner of the well-known firm of Russell Sc Met- calf.i During his residence here, Col. Metcalf grad- uated from the Law Department of the Kansas State University. While a resident of Ohio, Col. Metcalf served an enlistment in the Ohio National Guard, rising from private to first lieutenant of- his company. In 1888, Col. Metcalf enlisted as pri- vate in Company H, Kansas National Guard, at Lawrence, Kansas, and rose rapidly through all the grades to the captaincy of the company, which command he retained a number of years, and the records of the Adjutant-General's lofhce at Topeka show that for years his company was the best in the State. Later, he became major of- the regiment, then lieutenant-colonel, and at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War was colonel 'of the regi- ment. Governor Leedy in no way recognized the National Guard in the organization of the volunteer regiments inlKansas, but finally offered Col. Met- calf a major's commission in the 20th Kansas, which was promptly accepted. ln his ofliclal report Majo.- General McArthur referred to Maj. Metcalf as fthe strong right arm of Col. Funston in all of his opera- tions. Maj. Metcalf was Wounded at Bocane, and when he returned to the regiment, he carried a commissionyas colonel, caused by the promotion of Colonel Funston to brigadier-general. Col. Metcalf has been a close student of military affairs for years, and possesses a fine military library, with the contents of which he is practically familiar. Col. Metcalf has a wider acquaintance among Regular Army officers than any other American citizen, and among them he enjoys an enviable reputation be- cause of his knowledge of military art and the science of war. - 555' CLAUDE V. HICKMAN, Attorney-at-law, was born on a farm near Robin- son, Kansas, May 21, 1873, and remained on his father's farm until he started to procure an educa- tion in the higher branches in 1888. He is a son of Henry H. Hickman and Jane Hickman fformerly Jane Saxtonj, who moved to Brown County, Kan- sas, in 1865, at the close of the Civil VVarg his father having spent three years in the war in Company H, Thirteenth Kansas. At the age of fifteen, Mr. Hick- man started to school at Highland University, and attended there fouryearsg from Highland Univer- sity he went to Kansas University in 1893, and grad- uated from the Law Department of that institution in June, 1895, at the age of twenty-two. While at- tending Kansas University, he met Miss Myrtle Lodge, who was also a student there, and was mar- ried to her December 26, 1895, from which union a daughter, Helen Margaret, was born, and is now three years old. Mr. Hickman started to practice law in St. Joseph, Mo., soon after graduating, and has offices in rooms 310 and 311 in the German- American Bank building. Mr. Hickman comes of Republican parentage, and he himself has adhered to that faith, and has taken an active part in poli- tics. Without asking for or seeking oliice, he was nominated for Prosecuting Attorney of Buchanan County, Missouri, in 1896, but was not able to over- come the Democratic majority, and was therefore defeated. In 1898-his party honored him again by nominating him for City Attorney for St. Joseph, but factional party difliculties caused, his defeat, and also the defeat of the entire ticket. 5' 5' if ARTHUR CORNFORTH, Kansas University of f82, was born at Smethport, Penn., February 21, 1861. He attended school there, and was for four years in the common schools at Harrisburg, Penn. He came to Kansas in 1879, with his parents, entered the Law Department of Kansas University in October, 1880, graduated June 1, 1882, hung out his shingle in Clyde, Kansas, June, 1882, was City Attorney there in 1883, appointed post- master there by President Arthur in 1883, and 're- signed in 1885. He went to Colorado in 1887, and located in Durango. Was County Attorney there in 1895, and removed to Colorado Springs in 1896. Practice confined almost entirely to civil matters in the State and Federal Courts, and bankruptcy mat- ters. Possibly the most important litigation that he has had is that relative tothe title to Manitou Grand Caverns and Cave of the Winds, which has been pending since 1886, and been twice to the Supreme Court. There are now pending, as an out- growth of'the original suit, three cases in the Court of Appeals, and four in the District Court. When County Attorney of La Plata County, the Fee Bill was taken to the Supreme'Court, argued twice oral- ly, and an interpretation thereof obtained, as well as other important county matters. He has also had some important mining litigation, in connection with Cripple Creek properties. More particularly the ejeetment case of the American Consolidated. Mining and Milling Company fL7CI'8II8 the Mt. Rosa Mining, Milling and Land Company, wherein the title to the Last Stake lode, adjoining the now famous Gold Coin mine, was in dispute. This case was compromised by the plaintiff receiving all mineral rights, some surface and easement rights, and cash, and the defendant retaining the surface, which had already been platted as Victor town lots,