Whose card appears in the Cresset, are practicing lawyers in Medicine Lodge, with their office on Main street over the Citizens State Bank.

C.W. Ellis, the senior member of the firm, came to Kansas in 1870 and opened an office in Hutchinson. In 1872 he came to Medicine Lodge, opened an office here and at the same time filed on a homestead about a mile west of town. Later he proved it up and it is now his home where he lives in a very handsome residence and has made of the old claim a cultivated and well improved farm.

As a lawyer, Mr. Ellis is a man of recognized ability, in evidence of which we recite the fact that he received the appointment of judge of this judicial district and at the close of the term was re-elected to succeed himself. The junior member is Fred R. Ellis, a clear headed young man 26 years of age. He received his education in Kansas, graduated at the Kansas University Law School, and was admitted to practice three years ago and if we are any judge of a man's profile he has a promising career open before him. This firm enjoys a good practice and has been employed in some of the most important cases in our district court.

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Thanks to Ellen (Knowles) Bisson for finding, transcribing and contributing the above Medicine Lodge Cresset article to this web site!

It is one of a series of articles published together on 2 March 1900 under the title of Barber County Profiles: Men Who Have Taken a Prominent Part in Developing the Stock Industry in Barber County.

It was transcribed from Kansas State Historical Society microfilm reel #M 870. If a photo is indicated in the above text, the microfilm itself has a photo of the individual or property.

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