WALTER BENNETT was an attorney in El Paso in 1877, serving as city attorney for four terms. In the spring of 1892 he and his family moved to Arizona, where he died in May, 1933.

WALTER BULLOCK was an attorney in El Paso in 1877. Mr. Bullock was shot and killed May 2, 1881 by former Mayor Porter C. Ransom.

D. H. MOULDS was city attorney in 1893-4.

CHRISTIAN G. SCHROEDER was graduated in 1896 from the Chicago Law School and admitted to practice in June, 1897. In 1898-9 he was a partner of Judge A. M. Cavan; from 1899 until his death in 1938 he practiced alone.

JOHN F. BOSWORTH read law in the offices of Thomas Donovan of Joliet, later a lieutenant governor of Illinois. Mr. Bosworth was admitted to practice in Chicago in 1898, following which he set up law offices in El Paso. He was county judge from 1906 to 1911. The latter year he formed a partnership with his son, Vane C. Bosworth, but served as postmaster from February, 1915 to May, 1920. Judge Bosworth died in February, 1923.

ISAAC B. HAMMERS, JR. was of an old pioneer family and practiced law in El Paso for about thirty years. He was a state legislator for one term and served as master-in-chancery.

JAMES FLEMING STURGEON graduated from Knox College and read law. In 1901 he formed a partnership with I. B. Hammers, practicing law for many years as a side-line while serving as Cashier of the Woodford County National Bank.

FRANK B. SCHAFER graduated from the old Jefferson Park High School in 1898 and from the Northwestern University Law School in 1904. He entered into a law partnership with Judge Cavan from 1904 to 1907, but practiced alone thereafter. He died in October, 1911 in El Paso, Texas.

JUDGE HORACE H. BAKER, son of Joseph G. and Emogene Lincoln Baker, with the exception of his first year lived his entire life in El Paso. He practiced law from 1906 to 1947. His biography is given in the Name and Fame Chapter.

VANE C. BOSWORTH graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan Law School in 1911 and was admitted to practice, forming a partnership with his father, Judge John F. Bosworth that year. From 1915 to 1919 Mr. Vane Bosworth was with the General Land Office in Washington, D. C. From 1919 to 1933 he associated with the Belt Automobile Indemnity Association, and from 1933 to 1939 with the State Farm Insurance Group. From 1939 to date he has been general counsel for the Pfister Hybrid Corn Company in El Paso.

FREDERICK B. BAKER graduated from El Paso Township High School in 1929, and attended Morgan Park Military Academy in 1930, Knox College in 1934 and the University of Wisconsin Law School, graduating from the latter in 1938. After being admitted to practice he associated with his father, Judge Horace H. Baker, forming the partnership of Baker & Baker. He served in World War II from April, 1942 to December, 1945, returning to his local law practice in 1945. He has served continuously as city attorney since 1947.

ROBERT DENEEN graduated from the University of Illinois Law School in 1950 and in 1952 practiced in El Paso as a branch of his Bloomington office.

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