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

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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.

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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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at Rossville, Ill. In November, '91, he decided to come West, and grow up with the country. On arriving at Florence, this State, he immediately en- tered the Florence High School-graduating in 1894. To obtain the wherewithal to go higher in the edu- cational line, he turned to that ever-ready vocation, teaching. After following the career of a pedagogue for two years in the country school-houses, he en- tered the University in 1896, and took a year's spe- cial work in the Art Department. The following year he was Principal of the Florence High School. Again, in the fall of '98, he entered the University, and in the spring entered the Law School. In the summer of '99 he officiated as pencil-pusher upon the Florence Bulletin., in the capacity of local edi- tor. Before hanging out his shingle for himself, he will spend a couple of years in a law office in the Texas Panhandle. O O 0 FERNAND BURTON. ' In the far-away land across the sea, Belgium, ushering in the New Year, came Fernand Burton, born January 2,1876. In the first eleven years of his youth, he gained a fair education in his mother tongue. In 1887, wishing to learn more of the world, he secured transportation for his family, and sent them to America, following himself 'on the same vessel. His first location was at Florence, Kansas, a thriving little railroad town, where he sc-on had the rough edges knocked off of him. After migrating to several other places, he at last settled down at Ponca City, Oklahoma. He increased his fund of knowledge in the Ponca City High School, and by a short term in the University of Oklahoma. He secured a teacher's certificate, but decided to en- ter the Kansas Law School, which he did in '98. He has become quite prominent in olratory, and has taken part in several contests. C 0 0 ERNEST C. LOCKWOOD. Ernest C. Lockwood was shown the light of day for the first time, some twenty-six years ago, in Davies County, Missouri. Since that time he has had to be shown in nearly everything in his brief existence. Among the moss-backed hills of his na- tive State, he received a common-school education and attended a college a year or two. His first ambition in his 'fteens was to pull taffy with the girls, and find the first red ear at the husking bees. Not content with always being a Missou- rian, he went to Iowa, and later to Nebraska, work- ing on farms, and looking for the goal of happiness. To make this happiness more palatable, he taught school once. In July, '98, he came to Kansas, and entered the Law School that fall. The Juniors have shown him, and he expects to be shown some high place in State or nation in the dim future. J. HOWARD TORRENCE. Born on the banks of the Ohio in Middlepiort, Ohio, and wishing to grow up with the country, he moved with his parents to the short-grass country of Kansas in 1884. Being of a studious turn of mind, he so far completed a common-school educa- tion as to spend a year in the Central Normal Col- lege at Great Bend in '92 and '93. The next year he graduated from the Ellinwood High School. To secure the wherewithal to acquire professional training, he taught school the next three years. Emulating the example of his worthy ancestor, Judge Torrence, of the Supreme Court of Connecti- cut, he entered the Kansas University in the fall of '97, going into the Law School the following year. His aspirations are to be on the Supreme Bench of his adopted State. ' ofrfro SUMP First saw the light of day in a log cabin in Ran- dolph, Riley County, Kansas, January 17, 1878. His early education was received in the little log school- house of his home neighborhood. At fourteen he entered the High School, and advanced so rapidly in a year's time that he, armed with a common- school diploma, hied himself away to the State Nor- mal at Emporia.. He attended the State Normal in '94 and '95. Taught two years, and returned to the State Normal for another year. Later he was em- ployed as conductor on a street railway in Topeka for several months. Tiring of this, and other work he had been doing, he decided to study law, and en- tered the Kansas University Law School. He is at present editor of the Kansas University Lawyer, and is an energetic young man. He aspires to the Chief Justiceship. O I I EMORY W. EARHART. t'States are not great, except as men may make them. Pennsylvania claims as one of her sons Emory W. Earhart, who was born at Lykens, in that State, May 26, 1872. In 1884 he decided to give the citizens of Kansas the benefit of his wisdom and sagacity, so moved to Oxford, in the southern part of the State. Mr. Earhart engaged in the no- ble occupation of teaching for several years, but, co-nsidering how much more he could do for suffer- ing humanity in the legal profession, he gave up teaching to enter the Law School in the spring of '99. He has already had nine cases in court, and as he is a calm and fluent speaker, as well as a logical reasoner, he will undoubtedly have others. . CORNELIUS GANT. A product of a Kansas farm, Cornelius Gant, was born near Topeka, October 27, 1877. Here for the first seven years of his life he grew as did the corn and the pumpkins, and developed into a sturdy youth. In the fall of '84 his family moved to Leav- enworth, where he received a goiod education in the city schools, graduating from the High School there in June, 1898. That summer he came to Lawrence, where he has since made his ho-me, and expects to hang out his shingle. In September, 1898, he be- came a charter member of the Law Classof 1900, and, notwithstanding matching cloth and samples, and remembering that it is No. 40 white, instead of No. 50 black, he has found time to study, and has successfully passed all quizzes. CHARLES DARWIN DAIL Is the son o-f Attorney C. C. Dail, of Kansas City, Kansas. His home is at Quindaro, a small village- suburb of Kansas City, Kansas. He was .born Jan- uary 30, 1878, in Douglas County, Kansas, six miles from Lawrence. He graduated in the Latin course from the Kansas City, Kansas, High School in the spring of 1898. He entered the Law Department of the State University, at Lawrence, in the fall 'of the same year, graduating in the spring of 1900. He is altogether a Kansas boy, and is not only' proud of his State, but is trying to make his State proud of him. He is thoroughly temperate in all his habits, using neither intoxicating liquors nor tobacco in any form. During the summer 'of 1897, he had a severe attack of the gold fever, and, accompanied by his father, made a trip to Alaska, returning in a few months Crich in experiencej, and cured of the fever. His prospects are bright for success in the profession he has chosen, and if. determination. pluck, and energy will aid, then Kansas may add one more name to her list of bright young lawyers. --39- -