University of Nebraska College of Law - Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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B. 5. 05000 Mr. B. F. Good was born April 2, 1860, near Bloomfield, Iowa, where he resided until 1882. Supplementary to a thorough com- mon school education, he attended the Southern Iowa Normal School, from which institution he graduated in 1882. In this same year he entered the State University of Iowa, taking a special course in history and languages, and graduating from the law department of the university in 1885 with the degree of LLB. In August of 1885 Mr. Good came to Nebraska and settled at Wahoo. He formed a partnership with Mr. E. E. Good and immediately took up the practice of law at that place. I-Ie has made Wahoo his home during his entire residence in Nebraska, and the firm of Good 85 Good has become well known to the legal fraternity of the state. For five years Mr. Good has held the position of leturer on 'CLimitations of Actions, and has become deservedly popular in that somewhat abstruse, but very important branch of the law. I-Ie was married in June, 1890, to Miss Jennie Jessen, of Ne- braska City, and they have two children. I-Iis ample good nature is accounted for by the fact that, as he says, HI-Iis father and mother were Irish, and he is Irish too? Although never aspir- ing to political prominence, he takes great interest in the move- ments of the day, and is a firm believer in the principles of democracy. '

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r Egon. ID. S. Summers Hon. Williamson S. Summers, lecturer on Statutory Construc- tion, came to Nebraska in 1885. At the age of fourteen his par- ents settled in La Salle county, Ill., Where he remained until taking his college course. He Hrst attended Cornell University, and afterwards Iowa State Agricultural College, from which latter institution he graduated in 1884 with the degree of LLB. After taking special courses in oratory in Chicago and Cincinnati, he took a course in law and political science at Ann Arbor. During vacations Mr. Summers studied law in the ofiice of Duncan McDougall, of Ottowa, Ill., and on coming to Nebraska began the practice of law in Beatrice. He immediately took great interest in the political movements in the state, and in 1886 and every campaign since he has igured conspicuously as a cam- paign speaker. Mr. Summers was appointed as deputy Attorney General five years 'ago and While in that position attained con- siderable prominence before the state. I-Ie always encourages the students by his announcement that the subject of Statutory Construction is one of the dryest and most abstract of subjects, and that it is only endured because of the absolute necessity of mastering it. After this announcement they are in such a frame of mind that if surprised at all it must be an agreeable surprise.

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Dr. Bames Q. C5reene Dr. James L. Greene Was born at Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1861, of American parentage. He remained in his native state until 1890, since which time he has resided in Nebraska. His education was pursued in the common and high schools of Morgan county, Indiana, until the fall of 1880. He then taught in the country and graded schools of that county and studied medicine during vacations. Soon after this he Went to the University of Vermont Where he attended the full course of lectures in the medical department and graduated from the University in J une, 1884. In the examina- tions for degrees he stood fourth, out of a class of one hundred and twenty-sixf , Dr. Greene began practicing medicine immediately after com- pleting his education, and remained at Morgantown, Indiana, un- til coming to Nebraska in 1890, and locating at University Place. In April, 1893, Dr. Greene was appointed physician at Norfolk Hospital for the Insane, Where he remained until J une, 1895, at which latter time he received the appointment of first assistant superintendent in the Nebraska Hospital for the Insane, at Lin- coln. After holding this position for a few months, he resigned in order to take up his practice again, since which time he has given special attention to diseases of the mind and nervous system. Although this is the first year' that Dr. Green has been con- nected With the law school, his lectures were very popular. The subject of his lectures is Insanity-from the medical standpoint alone.