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

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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.

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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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ELDA FRANKLIN CALDYVELL. One of the most successful alumni of Kansas University is E. F. Caldwell, the present postmaster of Lawrence. In the fullest sense of the word, Mr. Caldwell is a self-made man. He was born in In- diana forty years ago, and in 1870 his father's fam- ily settled in Allen County, Kansas. After years spent in farming, and after a common-school edu- cation, the subject of this sketch entered the Uni- versity in 1879, graduating from the Art Depart- ment in '85, After severa.l years spent in railroad and newspaper work, he was appointed deputy post- master of Lawrence, which position he held for live years. During this time, he took a course in Law, graduating with the Class of '94, In the fall of 1894, Mr. Caldwell was elected to the Legislature, and served with distinction in the '95 session, and is credited with being responsible for the election of Senator Lucian Baker. In June, '98, he was ap- pointed postmaster of Lawrence. Aside from beirg a successful politician and lawyer, he has been con- nected with several enterprises, notably the publi- cation of Dr. Cordley's History of Lawrence, the Album of Lawrence, and several other publica- tions. His success in life is due to his own exer- tions, as he not only put himself through the Uni- versity, but he has forced the recognition of his ability by the public. 955' J. F. BRADLEY 'Nas born at Hazlewood Hall, near Cambridge, Saline County, Missouri. He had practically no public-school advantages, having only a few months of such in all. He entered Lincoln Institute at Jef- ferson City, Mo. Ca school forthe higher education of negroesj, worked his way through, and finished the c-ourse in 1885. In the same year, he entered the Law School at Lawrence, and by the same method finished that course in 1887. He immedi- ately opened an oflice in Kansas City, Kanl, and pegged along until April, 1889, when he was elected one of the justices of the peace in the city, there being three. In 1891 Mr. Bradley again took up the practice of the Law, and kept at it until January, 1895, when he entered the County Attorney's oiiice as second assistant, and in a few months became the first and only one, which position he held until January, 1899, when he entered upon his present practice. tHe tried to make it warm for criminals while prosecutingj There is one thing Mr. Brad- ley is vain enough to speak about personally, and well he may be. We have organized, says he, and have been maintaining for more than -one year, something that I think is worthy of mention, and that is the Douglass Hospital and Training School for nurses, of which I was one of the found- ers, and am still the president of the board of di- rectors. I speak of this, because it is the only thing of the kind in the United States, organized, managed, and maintained by negroes alone, and I will add that it is run on the charitable plan, and its doors are open to the world, regardless of race, color, or condition. In politics, Mr. Bradley is a liberal Republican, and has not an overplus of re- ligion, being a sort of a Dr. Roberts-Bob Ingersoll- Free-Thinking-Orthodox Christian. He is one of the colored men Kansas University is proud to speak of as an alumnus. 5' 3' 5' ADNA G. CLARKE Vilas born May 25, 1874, in Kansas City, Mo., he re- ceived his early education in Miami County, Kan- sas, and in the city schools of Lawrence. After three years in the Collegiate Department of the Kansas State University, he transferred to the Law Department, graduating with the Class of '97. He then became Deputy Clerk of the District Court, which position he held at the outbreak of the war. Enlisting in Company H, 1st Regiment, Kansas Na- tional Guards, December 6, 1891, and rising through the successive grades, he attained the rank of cap- tain September 7, 1897, May 9, 1898, his company was mustered in as Company H, 20th Kansas. Cap- tain Clarke won distinction as commander of the Kansas outpost guard the night of the attack on Manila, February 4, 1899. He was severely wound- ed at Tuliajan River, March 25, 1899, and returned to San Francisco on the United States hospital ship Relief, August 2, 1899. He rejoined his regiment upon its arrival in the United States and assumed command of Company H, with which he was mus- tered out. Captain Clarke was married April 26, 1897, to Miss Birdie Baxter, a Douglas County school teacher, and they are the proud possessors of a son, born February 25, 1898. After their muster out of the service, Captain Clarke and Elliot F. Hook, another member of Company H, 20th Kan- sas, formed a partnership for the practice of'Lawg but the Clerk of the District Court, Mr. Tucker, be- ing elected cashier of the Watlrins National Bank, Captain Clarke assumed his old position of Deputy Clerk, and is now a candidate for the Republican nomination for Clerk of the District Court. He is now doing work in the School of Arts and hopes to graduate with the class of '00. John M. Stcclc: il i- i- ' ORD CLINGMAN. One of the most successful members of the Class of '99 is Ord Clingman, a rising young attorney, of Lawrence. Notwithstanding that the Athens of Kansas is supposed to be very bountifully supplied with lawyers, Mr.,Clingman has enjoyed a good practice from the first day he hung out his shingle to the breezes. Ord Clingman was born November 5, 1876, and after graduating from a high school, he spent a co-uple of years at Cornell College, Iowa, and graduated from Kansas University with the Class of '99, After graduation he formed a partner- ship with D. S. Alford, one of the oldest and most successful attorneys in Lawrence, and the new firm ranks as one of the best in the State. It can be de- pended upon that Mr. Clingman will give a good account of himself, and that Kansas University will be proud of him. --QQ-