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

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1 1 N ' Lucius H. PERKINS. THOMAS JAMES NORTON. WILLIAM L. PALM 420.

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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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N. W. XVELLS Was born November 17, 1856, in Osawatomie Town- ship, Lykins Know Miamij County, Kansas. He was raised on a farm, and attended the common district school. Married October 20, 1876, to Miss Addie M. Holland, after which he taught a few terms of school, farmed, and read Law. He entered the Sen- ior Class 'of the University Law School in the fall of 1882, and graduated with the Class of 1888, on the 6th day of June. Five days afterward, on the 11th day of June, 1883, he opened a law oflice at Paola, Kansas, and has been there ever since. He has had fairly good success as a lawyer, especially in the criminal branch. VVas chairman of the Kan- sas State Board of Pardons from January, 1897, to January, 1899, and claims the distinction of being the o-ldest native-born Kansas lawyer. 9 W' if M. A. GORRILL Is another one of the Law Sch0ol's patriotic alumni, and a successful young attorney, living in Law- rence. He was born in Douglas County, Kansas, July 7, 1871. After graduating from the Lawrence High School in 1888, he attended the Arts School of Kansas State University during the years of '90 and '91, After a rest of several years, he climbed the hill once more, this time to register in the Law School. He became an attorney with the grad- uation of his class in 1895, and at once began practice in this place. Mr. Gorrill is also connected with railroad work in addition to an already grow- ing practice. -- ' 9 5' 3' WADE ROSCOE PARKS. The above-named the records show to have been born on the 24th of August, 1877, at a point on the pretty tbonitoj prairie, five miles south o-f Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas. The first eighteen years he passed on the farm. - One year he spent in teach- ing. Four yearsvof his time has been devoted to study at the Kansas University. He graduated from the Law School in 1897, and returned in the fall of 1878 to take up a special course in Political Economy, and the allied subjects of History and Sociology. For his future success, he realizes that he has two of the primary requisites-time and op- portunity. He has just emerged from that period of existence in which boys', are said to feel so heavily the burdens of life, and is now a professed optimist, having unbounded faith in uncorrupted human nature, and looking to the future with dar- ing, hope, and confidence. He stands here for his principles, but his plans uf Ziff' arc not for publi- cutiwz. V ?3'i' THOMAS JAMES NORTON, Of the Class of '94, was born in Rutland County, Vermont, and resides in Chicago. In his life to date,he has had thatvaricd experience which makes the business and all-around practical man-farm life, teacher, editor, correspondent, lawyer, While he was yet a boy his parents moved to Newton Kansas, where he divided his time between the farm work and the study in the school-room. Hav- ing completed his education sufliciently to put on the cloak of the pedagogue, he taught for two years in the country schools. Two years as Principal of a school in Newton, and two years as Principal of the High School of that place. Casting aside his educational work, he accepted the editorial and managing control of the Newton Rcpubliccm, then owned by a corporation. After three years with the Rcplfblicrllz, he went to Topeka in 1891, and assumed control of the Kansas bureau of the Kansas City Jozfrnrll. Resigning this in the fall of '93, he en- tered the Law School of Kansas University, grad- uating therefrom the following spring. Mr. Norton opened a law oiiice in Chicago, and in 1898 became associate attorney in the ofiice of the general solic- itor of the Atchison, Topeka 8: Santa Fe Railway Company. 3'5'3' WILLIAM L. PALM, A true and native Kansan, who has gone into other States and communities, is William L. Palm. Born in Lawrence, educated in her public schools, he graduated from the High School in 1886. For three years thereafter he came in touch with the world's doings, acting as clerk and book-keeper in his fatheris large implement store. Turning his at- tention to Blackstone, he entered the Law Depart- ment of the University in the fall of 1889, grad- uating therefrom in 1891. As an appreciation of his ability, he was selected as one of the six class day orators. Starting out for himself, he went to Raw- lins, WVyoming, and hung out his shingleg but not finding that place what he desired, he went to Den- ver and established himself in his present location, in the Ernest KL Cranmer Block. Here, at the be- ginning without reputation, friends, or money, he has built himself up so that now he is one of the most successful of the young lawyers in Denver, and has a large and paying practice. His specialty is corporation and real estate law. Besides being prominent in legal circles, he is also prominent in the secret societies of his city, being a member of noless than seven, and is also State attorney for ten fraternal insurance orders. He is Grand Master of the Records of the Knights of the Golden Eagle of Colorado. He has time to devote to society, and literature, being a member of the Denver Wheel Club, and a writer for several Eastern magazines and papers. H 5' il il LUCIUS H. PERKINS Was born in Racine County, Wisconsin, March 5, 1855. His parents were thrifty, and no pains were spared on his early education. After the common schools, he received a thorough academic training preparatory to entering Beloit College, Wisconsin, 421-,