Class of 1894

Class composite photograph for Chicago-Kent College of Law class of 1894, formerly Kent Law School. Students and faculty pictured: Faculty Thomas E.D. Bradley Russell H. Curtis William H. Dyrenforth Marshall D. Ewell James G. Kiernan G. Frank Lydston Harold N. Moyer Milton O. Naramore Students Charles R. Adair William Woodford Admire Harry T. Baker Ernest J. Batten Robert E. Berlet Junius Frederick Bisbee Charles Sherman Bouton Samuel Augustus Buffington William Potter Bullard William M. Butterworth Philip A. Chase Lewis H. Clarke Hermanus DeBoer Lorenzo B. Elliott Saul C. Erbstein Frank F. Follett Vincent G. Gallagher James S. Graham George Howard Harkness Percy B. Herr Isaac Reynolds Hitt Matthew Huss Howard Emmet Leach Louis I. McElroy John Barb Morgan Charles W. Nichols Nels L. Pearson Charles L. Peckham John Pfeiffer Herman William Plautz Ralph Raymond David H. Roblin S.B. Rogers Charles E. Scharlau Carl Schneider Henry Moses Shabad Julius Francis Smietanka Charles H. Soelke Walter S. Starkey Leopold Moses Stern Samuel B. Willey William Nicholas Williamshttps://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/composites/1001/thumbnail.jp

Loise Foskette

Loise Foskette, Class of 1894 Louise Foskette was born in Palatine, Illinois in 1865. Before graduating from Chicago College of Law in 1890, a classmate of Ida Platt’s, Foskette spent eight years teaching in Chicago schools. She was admitted to the bar in June of 1894, and opened her own law practice in Chicago’s Ashland Block, but continued to teach night school. She received public attention when she won a not guilty verdict for a client against attorney James Todd, who became famous as the prosecutor of Chicago Mayor Carter H. Harrison’s assassin. In 1897, Foskette was forced to close her law office and move to Alabama, where the warmer climate was said to aid in overcoming consumption. Unfortunately, she passed away in March of 1897. The Chicago Legal News published a portion of her eulogy, which read “Measured in days and years, our friend’s existence was a brief one, but she lived while she lived...she possessed a mind of superior power and compass--a mind that urged her on far beyond the ability of her physique to sustain.”https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/womeninlaw/1001/thumbnail.jp

Class of 1893

Class composite photograph for Chicago-Kent College of Law class of 1893, formerly Kent College of Law Chicago. Students and faculty pictured: Faculty Thomas E.D. Bradley Russell H. Curtis William H. Dyrenforth Marshall D. Ewell John Gibbons James G. Kiernan Harold N. Moyer Milton O. Naramore Students Alexander C. Allen C. Louis Amberg George D. Barden Henry C. Blayney Charles H. Bowles William A. Bowles Charles Buford Phill Chanceler/Chancellor Frank Hall Childs Alvin T. Clark George S. Cole Hampton Corlett Alexander A. Davidson Henry S. Dixon James J. Ennis John J. Ford William Friedman Arthur W. Fulton Fred Gerlach Walter J. Gunthorp Willis A. Hall Arthur Hoffman John Everett Holland Andrew Hummeland James F. Hutchison William G. Ide Hans G. Johnson Hugh J. Kearns Orlando W. Keatley James Joseph Kelly Frank T. Kinnare James W. La Mure Amos S. Lakey Harvey Lantz Charles Lederer Leon L. Loehr Thomas J. Mair John McCollum William B. McIntyre Lee Ezekiel Mighell J. McKenzie Moss Nils F. Olson Arthur B. Pease Ralph F. Potter Albert D. Rich Edward D. Runyan Augustine J. Schiml Henderson C. Shumaker Charles E. Soule Jr. Hugh R. Stewart Curran Harvey Strickler Francis J. Sullivan Enoch M. Thatcher Linford Hugh Upton Claude L. Waller William B. Walrath Charles S. Walworthy Curtis L. Webb Francis Waller Welch Edgar P.H. West Wallace H. Whigam William Warfield Wilson Anton T. Zemanhttps://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/composites/1000/thumbnail.jp

The Kent Law School of Chicago Annual Register, 1892-1893

The Kent Law School of Chicago\u27s Annual Announcement for 1892-1893 and Circular of Information for 1893-1894. This is the first annual announcement published by the Kent College of Law.https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/annual_announcements/1000/thumbnail.jp

The Kent Law School of Chicago Circular of Information, 1892-1893

The first Circular of Information for the Kent Law School of Chicago. This circular was originally labeled The Union Law School of Chicago, reflecting the original name of the Kent Law School, which it held for less than a year. The Kent Law School of Chicago was formed in 1892 by Marshall D. Ewell, a former professor of the Union College of Law of the Old University of Chicago. This original Union College of Law, founded in 1859, lost its charter and was fully absorbed into Northwestern University in 1891. During the 1891-1892 school year, Professor Ewell disagreed with the changes made by the new administration and formed the new Union College of Law in 1892. This circular has been corrected in pencil to reflect the name change from Union to Kent, which took place shortly after its formation, as the law school of Northwestern University would still be officially known as the Union College of Law.https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/annual_announcements/1040/thumbnail.jp

Cora B. Hirtzel

Cora B. Hirtzel, Class of 1890 Cora B. Hirtzel was born in Ottawa, Illinois and came to Chicago in 1887 after studying law in the offices of Jackson & Thompson in Oakland, Wisconsin. She took a “regular course” at the Chicago College of Law and graduated in 1890, and was admitted to the bar in October of the same year. By 1892 she had left her employer, Hon. W.C. Goudy, to specialize in briefing. In 1897, she was appointed to the position of Assistant Corporate Counsel by Corporate Counsel Thornton, the first woman to be appointed to the position in Chicago. The Chicago Legal News remarked at the time that “[s]he was not appointed by Mr. Thornton because she was a woman, but because she is an able lawyer and capable of rendering him as much assistance in the preparation of cases for court, and making briefs and arguments, as any lawyer he could select for that position.”https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/womeninlaw/1000/thumbnail.jp