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

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que, N. M., and in the following October began the practice of Law at that place. His activity and en- terprise won for him a good clientage from the first, and the firm of Johnson Kc Finical, which was formed a short time afterwards, has since enjoyed the confidence of the business people of that city to a marked degree, and their business has kept stead- ily increasing in volume and importance. Mr. Fin- ical has always been a staunch Republican, and as a candidate for the Territorial Council in the last campaign, he carried his county by a majority of 1274, over Neill B. Field, his Democratic opponent, while Mr. Catron only carried it by 625 over Mr. Ferguson, the Democratic candidate for Delegate to Congress. This gives the promise that if he should remain in active politics, there is no position in New Mexico to which he may not confidently and successfully aspire. During the past three years, Mr. Finical has been City Attorney of Albuquerque, the largest city in New Mexico, and has been re- cently honored with the appointment and confirma- tion of District Attorney for the counties of Berna- lillo and Valencia. He has become widely and most favorably known throughout the Territory, and has made many friends who will only be too glad to do anything they can for him in the future. He is true to his friends, and never fails to remember his enemies. He never forgets his party, and atthe same time he does not allow allegiance to it to con- flict with what he believes to be the best interests of the people as a whole.-Saw-ta Fe New Mcaficcm., Feb. 15, 1897. 3'i'i' CHARLES STEVENS. ' The subject of this sketch, who is now serving his fourth year as- County Attorney of Cherokee County, this State, is a Hoosier, but went to that county when a small child. During his boyhood days he worked on a farm, made brooms, and re- paired stoves to support his widowed mother, younger brothers, and sister. One of his earliest desires was to become a lawyer, and it was under the greatest difficulties that he secured his educa- tion, which enabled him to graduate from the Kan- sas University Law School in 1893. With limited means, he batched on Indiana Street, in Law- rence, in order to complete the course and avoid expense. He is a strong campaigner, and has al- ways taken an active part in politics, and while at- tending Kansas University took the first steps in the organization of the Fusion Club, which was the iirst club of the kind ever organized in the University. Soon after hanging out his shingle at Fort Scott, he was nominated for County Attor- ney of Bourbon County, but was defeated with the balance of his ticket. After engaging in the suc- cessful practice of his profession at said place, he returned to the home of his early days, where he was twice elected public prosecutor by overwhelm- ing majorities. Chas. Stevens is a self-made man, having, step by step, worked his way up from the boy broom-maker and stove-repairer, in his humble cabin, to one of the most successful and wealthy young lawyers of Southern Kansas. iii JOHN C. BUTTOMER VVas born at Pleasant Hill, Mo., June 7, 1878. He was educated at Olathe, Kansas, and Kansas State University. While in the latter institution, Mr. Buttomer was no doubt o11e of. the most popular men ever attending. that school. He was President of the Class of '98, manager of Kansas University Band, and assistant manager of the football team. He graduated with the Class of i99, and is at pres- ent with Brumback 8: Brumback, rooms 301 and 302, New England Building, Kansas City, Mo. John says the future looks better every day. 9 5' 0' 8 AUSTIN CURTIS CUNKLE. One of the best known and most popular mem- bers of the alumni is Austin Curtis Cunkle, now a successful practicing attorney at Fort Smith, Ark. Mr. Cunkle was born in Ohio in 1867, his parents removing to Greenwood County, Kansas, in 1870. After attaining a common-school education, his father, who, until his death, was one of the most successful physicians in the State, beingya great be- liever in education, early started his son into the University. It was in the good 'old days of the Prep Department, and after six years of German, French, and Anglo-Saxon, young Cunkle graduated in the Arts Department' with the Class of 1888. After two years' struggle with the world, without any real genuine preparation for life, he returned to the University and entered the Law Department, graduating with the Class of '91, Here he found what he liked. Law pro-positions were more inter- esting than the diflicult translation of foreign and dead languages. Mr. Cunkle has proven himself quite proficient in public speaking. and being a Democrat in Arkansas, he is, figuratively speaking, strictly in it. 'tThe Shingle expects to hear of him, a well-rounded and successful career, and a life well spent. 4 5'i'3' JAMES H. MITCHELL VVas born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He came to Kansas in 1867. 'After finishing the common schools, he be- gan to study for his present profession, and grad- uated with the Law Class of Kansas State Univer- sity of 1893. Since that time Mr. Mitchell has been practicing in the city of Lawrence, and is now con- nected with the legal department of Watkins Land Mortgage Company. Mr. Mitchell is a candi- date for nomination for Probate Judge, and stands a fair show of being the chosen one. He is Secre- tary of the University Law Alumni Association. James H. Mitchell is a brother to Alexander Mitch- ell, another alumnus, whose picture appears in The Shingle. -27-

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THOMAS A. FINICAL. CHARLES STEVENS

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JOHN C. BUTTOMER. ORD GLINGMAN. JAM ES H. MITCHELL. ELDA F. CALDWELL. ADNA G. CLARKE J. F. BRADLEY. A. V. SHARPE.