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

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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-,

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