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

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Class Biography. GRACE BUCHANAN BARNETT Was born at Bolton, Mo., December 21, 1875. She came to Kansas to mix in politics and assist the down-trodden women of the Sunflower State. This resolution came to her very young, so she was but a child when she left Missouri. After attending the Goodland High School, Miss Barnett was for six years a school Hmarmf' Finding this the sure road to old-maidism, she resolved to lead a better and higher life, and to-day we find her one of the three Graces Cladiesl in the Senior Law Class of 1900. Besides being well versed in legal lore, Miss Bar- nett has talent in a literary way, and the editor here wishes to say that much is due this lady as- sistant for the success of The Shingle. Miss Bar- nett will become the senior member of the law firm of Barnett Ka Barnett, and will practice at Good- land, Kansas. Who the junior member of the part- nership will be she does not state, but we predict for the firm success in future years. O O I CHARLES CRAVEN HOGE Was born March 15, 1872, near Shawnee, this State, and was raised and lived on a farm until the age of seventeen years, when his parents removed to Olathe. He passed successfully through the com- mon schools and the Olathe High School. After graduating, he spent one year in the Beggs Acad- emy at Olathe. Following this he took a commer- cial course in the Spalding Commercial College, Kansas City, completing his course in 1892. He soon found a position with the Johnson County Co- operative Association, one of the largest mercantile establishments in eastern Kansas, where he rose to be the foreman in his department. Resigning his position in 1896, he took a vacation and spent sev- eral months in different parts of Old Mexico. Upon returning fronrhis pleasure trip, he opened a gen- eral merchandise store, and dealt in grain at Bucy- rus, Miami County. At the beginning of the Leedy administration in 1897, Mr. Hoge was appointed bond clerk under D. H. Hefflebower, State Treasurer, which position he filled with honor to himself, to the administration, and to the State. After the close of his 'official career in 1899, he became the managing editor of the Olathe Tribune, the leading Populist paper in Johnson County. Resigning this after three months' trial, he entered the Law School, and has been a faithful worker since. While here he has become very prominent in University affairs. His powers of speech, as displayed in stumping the State for Leedy in 1898, made him recognized as an orator, and he was chosen President of the Orator- ical Society, and was chosen an alternate for the Kansas-Missouri debate for this year. He was a member of the Kansas University Glee Club, which made a successful tour of the State the past winter, and is now auditor and member of the Board of Directors of The Shingle. I O O ROBERT ELIJAH TROSPER Was born May 5, 1856, in Nodaway County, Mis- souri. In 1859 he came to Kansas, locating in Mar- shall County, which place he has since made his home. He received his early education in the pub- lic schools and at the State Agricultural College at Manhattan. He has engaged extensively in bus- iness, meeting with exceptional success, and al- though pursued at times by that malignant, envious spirit with which it is the lot of successful men to contend, each encounter has but created strength, and he has grown fat and jolly over these small troubles. Mr. Trosper has lived in a log cabin, has hoed corn, has seen the buffalo, the coyote, the grasshopper, and the Kansas cyclone, but he has never lost sight of the noble ambition to become a graduate of the,Kansas University Law School, and has wisely chosen to graduate with the Class of 1900. He is recognized as an able speaker, and the faith his classmates have in his integrity and busi- ness ability was shown by his election as business manager of the Law Year Book. It is a fact worthy of mention, that at the same time that Mr. Trosper graduates from the Law School, his son, Robert E., Jr., graduates from the Art Department of Kansas State University. ' V I O O' ' ROBERT E. EVERETT Was born November 21, 1874, at Pleasanton, Kan- sas. In '92 he graduated from the Pleasanton High School, and coming to Lawrence that year, attended and graduated from the Art Department of Kansas University. From that time until '99 he followed journalism as a. profession, meeting with gratifying success.- Since entering the Law School, Mr. Ever- ett has had ample opportunity to keep uphis jour- nalistic work, as he has been connected with the various University publications. He was unani- mously chosen editor-in-chief of the Kansas Uni- versity Shinglef' He is a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He has never taught school, and has nobly reso-lved never to do so, no matter how sorely tempted. Although Mr. Everett has not increased in stature to a very great extent, he has increased in wisdom, and in the future, if any of us shall chance to meet a small man with a merry twinkle in his off eye, pointed to by the admiring natives as Little, but oh my! we will rub our glasses, take a- second look, and remark: Well, I guess yes! That is Bob Everett, the wit, poet, and caricaturist of the Law Class of 1900.7 Mr. Everett will com- bine the professions of law and journalism. A G. B. O O 0 WALTER V. JORDAAN, Born at Larned, Kansas, October 15, 1879. Grad- uated from the Larned High School with the Class of '98. Entered Kansas University Law School in the fall of 1898. An associate editor of the Kansas University Shingle Member of Sigma Chi and Phi Delta Phi fraternities. 0 0 0 ' , JAMES VANDAL V Was born in South Dakota in the year 1876, August 26th. The blood of the noble red man fiows in his veins, and he evidences its presence by his artistic temperament and his love for nature. He attended the Mission School of his native State, and after- wards, in 1894, Haskell Institute, at Lawrence. He completed the normal course of the latter institu- tion in 1898, and the same year entered Kansas State University. He says that he will practice law and starve, but this is one of Jim's jokes, and we have no doubt that his teepee will always be filled with the best that a lawyer deserves. O O O RALPH W. SMITH Was born September 28, 1874, on a farm, near Ross- ville, Ill. Together with riding the cultlvator and driving in the ducks at night, he managed to com- plete the course of studyn as found in a district school, and in the fall of '90 entered the high school -371

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WALTER V. JORDAAN, C. C. I-IOGE, ' RALPH W. SMITH, Assistant. Auditor. Assistant. PUBLICATION BOARD ROBERT E. EVERETT, Edi tor-in-chief. OF LC 3? THE SHINGLE GRACE B. BARNETT, ROBERT E. TROSPER, JAMES VANDAI., Assistant Business Manager. Assistant.

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OTTO SUMP. JAMES M. MILLER. ' J. HOWARD TORRENCE ERNEST C. LOCKWOOD. EMORY W. EARHART. CORNELIUS GANT. FRANK E. ANDERSON. FERNAND BURTON. DAVID W. WOOD.