The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-29


of the Federal Council of Churches.
who was reared in Kansas. He once
was pastor of Charles NJ Sheldon's
Central Congregational church in To-
peka.
Harold w. Greider. in government
service as assistant chemist in the re-
search section. He was born in Man
chester, Kansas, and attended WASH
burn and Kansas University.
E. c. Devereux, formerly in part
nership with his brother-in-law, Ed
ward E. Epps, was native of Topeka
and attended Kansas University.
Frank L. Epps, stock broker. He
was educated at Washburn and admits
a diversified career in Kansas ranging
from gardening to horse-racing.
Harry o. Coughlin, vice president
of the firm of Clark & Fritts,
printers, and of the United States Cor
twenty years. much of the time in
Topeka, and was employed in the San
ia F'e general offices for seven years.
His wife was Maude Clark, whose
family lived in Topeka.
Mrs. Edward E. Epps, formerly
Miss Katharine Devereux, was born in
Lawrence. Her husband, who found
ed the brokerage firm of Epps & Co.,
died several years ago.
A New York Sun Editor.
Mrs. Patience Bevier Cole. editor of
the woman's page of the New York
Evening Sun, attended the Topeka
schools and high schools. She mar
ried in 1907 and went to New York.
Her husband is now in France.
Kent Okley Brown, physician at
the Emergency hospital of the Win
chester Repeating Arms company, of
New Haven. He came to Kansas in
1871, then went to Ohio but returned
to Topeka seven years later where he
practiced medicine for two years.
DR.. Margaret Brewster, physician
with extensive practice in Grantwood
and Edgewater, N. j. She was the
daughter of the Rev. Enoch Powell,
| former pastor of the Unity church,
and was popular in Topeka society.
She married DR.. Guy Brewster, of New
York.
GLADDEN. w. Baker, statistician in the
J state health department at Albany,
n. Y. He graduated from Washburn
| in 1916.
| Roy E. Allen, general manager of
| the brokerage firm of Edward E. Epps
| & Co He was born in Wichita, where
| he was formerly engaged in the drug
| business.
| Gertrude Devereux Allen. who lived
| in Lawrence and Topeka. She mar
r1ed Roy E. Allen fifteen years ago.
George B. Huron. director and
| member of the firm of Cross &
| Brown, real estate. He was born at
Oskaloosa and attended Washburn.
General Counsel of New Haven.
Edward Grant auckland. president
and general counsel of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad.
| Came to Kansas in 1872 and gradu-
ated from Washburn in 1887. with
| b. A. degree. He went to New York
| in 1898.
! William C. Gordon, now soloist and
manager of the Stanley cabaret. He
is Canadian by birth but came to
| learned the book-binding trade in the
state printing plant. He organized
| the Odeon quartette at Washburn and
| then yielded to IA years of stage life.
Minola Clark. a teacher of music
| in New Jersey. She was closely iden-
tilted with the musical life of Topeka
! in the early nineties. She is a sister
| of the late William E. Clark, Topeka
and New York newspaper man.
Charles W. Price, editor-in-chief
and president of the Electrical Review
company. He came t. Kansas from
| Ohio in 1873 and was a former Leav-
| enworth, Topeka and Kansas City
| newspaper man.
Caroline Morton, Saratoga Springs
| N. Y, now acting manager of the
| home extension service bureau of
| Saratoga county. She was born at
| Tecumseh and educated in Topeka and
| Manhattan. She has made a success
in domestic economy.
| H. H. AlICnell w OOQS, OF Larch-
mont. n. Y, chief clerk and manag
| of privileges for the New York Zoolog-
! ical park. He was born in Wabaunsee
Attended Topeka business college and
was at one time employed in the post
| office here.
Edwin A. Menninger. journalist, as
| sistant cable and telegraph editor for
the New York Tribune. The son of
DR.. c. F. MeHninger, he attended To-
peka schools and graduated from
| Washburn in 1916. Identified at one
| time with the State Journal here and
edited Washburn Review in 1915'16.
He was editorial writer for the Kan
sas City Journal in 1917.
Florence Finch Kelly, author. now
| with the New York Times. Came to
Kansas from Illinois in 1859 and was
| reared on a farm in Miami county.
| Went to Chicago in 1880 and later to
New York.
Josephine K. Littlejohn. short story
| writer, the granddaughter of J. K.
| Hudson, founder of the Topeka Capt.
tai Her grandmother was Mary
Worrall Hudson, first president of the
Topeka City Federation of Women
clubs. Her husband is in France.
The Kouns Girls There.
| Nellie and Sara Kouns, now abroad
with a company of we'll known stage
people entertaining our soldiers They
were prominent in Topeka society col
umns and were vaudeville top-liners
on the Keith circuit in New York.
| Ruth A. Rooster, studying sociology
at Columbia university. She was born
in Topeka and graduated from high
school and Washburn.
| Aaron Z. Jetmore, at the head OF
the firm of Jetmore & Jetmore- A
former Topeka attorney who served
as county attorney of Shawnee county
for two terms.
william ]. Cation, who lived in To-
peka from 1878 to 1881 and was one
of the original members of Tom An
dersons famous Modoc club.
| DR.. Karl Menninger, on the faculty
of Tufts Medical college and Harvard
Medical college, where he is instruc-
tor of neuropathology. The son of DR..
C z Menninger of TOpeka