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

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G. W. W. YATES. Born September 2, 1844, in Pittsfield, Ill. Re- moved to Kansas with his parents, who settled on a claim, two miles northwest of Lawrence, August 12, 1854. He was a member of the first district school organized in the Territory in the spring of 1855, three miles northwest of Lawrence. He left home in 1861. He clerked in stores in Leavenworth and Holton, Kansas, a short time, and then became em- ployed in the Transportation Department 'of the United States Government for a year. Then he at- tended school until the fall of 1863, when he became an apprentice in Pharmacy, .during which time he tcok a night course in a Business College. In 1868, he embarked in the jobbing and retail drug business in Lawrence, continuing until 1881. VVhile thus en- gaged, by studying nights and attending class at the Kansas University mornings, he graduated in Law in the Class of 1880. He removed in 1881 to Wyan- dotte, engaged in the practice of Law, and in 1883 founded a weekly newspaper, The Wyculfdottc Chief, personally editing and managing same until the summer of 1885, when he closed his law and news- paper oflices and engaged at State agent of the Union Central Life Insurance Company, of Cincin- nati, Ohio, with headquarters at Topeka, and is at present so employed. 4 4 i'3'i' ALFRED FIDLER, Class of '88, now a member of the law firm of Hol- lis Sc Fidler, New York Life Building, Kansas City, Mo., was born in New Albany, Indiana, in 1866. The early years of his life were spent in Jackson- ville and Beardstown, Illinois. After attending the public schools in both places, he spent several years at the Cathedral School, at Pekin, Ill. In 1884 Mr. Fidler moved to Winfield, Kansas. He entered the Law Department of Kansas University in the fall of '86, and graduated two years later. While in Lawrence, Mr. Fidler, as an auxiliary to his class work, read Law in the office of Riggs 8: Nevison. He removed to Kansas City, and began to practice there in 1889. His father's family were English, living at Manchester, and his mother's family of Kentucky stock, living at Louisville. Though in Missouri, and now a citizen of that State, Mr. Fidler is still true to his Alma Mater, the University -of Missouri's sister State. 5' 5' 5' RALPH E. CAMPBELL. The subject of this sketch was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, on May 9, 1867, and at the age of two years moved with his parents to Atchi- son County, Kansas, where he resided upon a farm near Muscotah in that county until nineteen years of age. He then taught school one year, after which he learned shorthand, and for two years was stenographer and clerk for H. G. Clark, Superin- tendent of the Missouri Pacific Railway at Sedalia, Missouri. In the fall of 1890 he entered the Col- legiate Department of the Northern Indiana Nor- mal School, remaining there two years, and in 1892 entered the Law Department of. Kansas University, graduating in June, 1894. In September of that year, he became connected with the Legal Depart- ment of the Choctaw, Oklahoma 8: Gulf Railroad, under J. W. McLoud, general solicitor, at South McAlester, I. T. In December, 1899, when the road was completed to Memphis, Tenn., he was appointed assistant general solicitor, and moved to Little Rock, Ark., Where the general oiiices of the com- pany are located, and where he now resides. 9' W' 5' ROBERT WOODS BLAIR Was born March 17, 1865, in Bucks County, Pennsyl- vania. With his parents, he moved from there, suc- cessively, to Allegheny, Pa.,Salem, O., Cairo,W.Va., and finally in April, 1872, to Netawaka, Jackson County, Kansas, where his parents located on a farm, about one mile from the town. There he continued to reside, working on the farm in the summer, and attending district school in winter, until October, 1885, when he entered the Law 'Class of the Kansas State University, and graduated in a class of twelve in 1887, receiving the degree of LL.B. June 6, 1887, he was admitted to the bar of the Douglas County District Court, and' February 8, 1890, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the State. Later, he was admitted to the bar of the United States Circuit Court and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. In July he entered the service of the Union Pacific Railway Company as a law clerk, under Hon. A. L. Williams, of Topeka, general attorney for the company. He has since remained with that company, its receivers and successors, and is assistant attorney for Kansas and Missouri for the Union Pacific Railroad Com- pany, the successor of the Union Pacific Railway Company. His railroad litigation requires most of his time, but he does a limited amount of 'business in the general practice. His present oiiice is in Topeka. Mr. Blair is one of a family o-f eight chil- dren, five boys and three girls, all living. His parents now reside in Topeka. He is a Presbyter- ian, and a Democrat by inheritance, and is unmar- ried, and never fails to give Dean Green credit for whatever success he has made in life. ' 3'5'i' ALBERT CAUGHEY Is another of the Law School boys, who, while not in the practice, will never forget his life in Kansas University, years ago. He was born in 1871, and graduated with a LL.B. in 1890. He has, since that time, been engaged in the lumber business in Desh- ler, Neb. He writes: I want 'The Shingle' for a keepsake, and to have a directory ofthe boys I knew ten to twelve years ago. -19,

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