The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-11
K. E. LEIGHTON,
66, Is DEAD
AT HOME HERE
Assistant Attorney General Is
Sudden Victim Of Heart
Disease
FUNERAL TO BE IN MINOT
Prominent Lawyer Was For.
merly Judge Of Minot Dis.
trict Court
FUNERAL TO BE IN MINOT

n. =. Leighton, Do, former Mtnot
district Judge and assistant attorney
general OF North Dakota since 1925,
0led suddenly at his home, 2O4 Ave-
nue. b west, about IL o'clock last
night. Death was due to myocar-
ditis from which he had suffered for
several years.
Funeral services will be held at
2 p. m. Friday from the Elks home
IN Mfnot and burial will be made
In Rosehill cemetery OF that city.
Mr.. Leighton had returned to his
nome about IL o'clock after spend
ing an evening with friends in the
city and complained OF not feeling
we'll. He went to the basement to
fix the furnace for the night and a
few minutes later, when Mrs. Leigh
ton received no response to repeated
calls, she found him dead.
Besides Mrs. Leighton, he leaves
his mother, Mrs. Laura M. Leighton,
Minot; two sons, Roy, Is, and Will,
%, and two daughters, Inez, 10, and
Barbara, 16, all living at home.
Born In Missouri
Kalita Elton Leighton was a ma.
tive of Missouri the son of JACOB
and Laura Anderson Leighton,
Americans of Dutch-Scotch descent.
He was born on a farm near Men
dota, Putnam county, Missouri, Sept.
Is, 1871.
At tn, age Of six, his parents
moved to Wayne county, Iowa,
where he grew to manhood. He at
tended the public schools of Wayne
county, graduated from the high
school at Allerton, then spent two
years at the Highland Park Normal
school at Des Moines and graduated
from the law department Of the Uni.
versity of Iowa in 1899.
After a year spent at Mystic
Iowa, in the practice OF law, he
moved to Minot and soon gained
H. plate Of pcSminsac0 At~tao IN.
In addition to law, Judge Leighton
engaged in the real estate and loan
business and took an active interest
In farming.
Became Judge in 1911
In 1911, Mr.. Leighton was ap-
pointed judge Of the Minot district
court by Gov. John Burke. He was
elected to the same position In 1912
and was reelected in 1916, holding
his judgeship until 1920, when he
reengaged in the private practice OF
law.
On Nov. II, 1925, he was appointed
assistant attorney general OF North
Dakota by George F. Shafer, attor-
ney general, in which capacity he
was serving at the time OF his death.
No successor has been named yet,
1t was announced today by Mr.. Sha-
fer.
Mr.. Leighton waI married on
Christmas day, 1901. to Miss Belle
Lockman of Drakesville, Iowa.
Besides his Elks affiliations, in
which he took an active interes:
both in Minot and Bismarck, Mr.
Leighton was a member Of the Mod
crn WOodmen OF America.
Special Car Furnished
C. L. Simpson, superintendent OF
the local division OF the 500 rail-
way, has placed special car at the
disposal Of the Leighton family
Bearing the body, the immediate
family and mourners, the car Will
leave the local station at Z a. M
Thursday.
Members Of the Elks club OF Mi
not will probably be the pallbearers,
according to member Of the family.
The body will lie in state at the
Leighton residence here from 3
o'clock this afternoon until .
o'clock tonight.