From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Mar. 12, 1911:

“The road to success for the man who has to work his way through college usually is a tangled path, and it is proverbially so for the young lawyer whose clients are few in number when the young barrister ‘hangs out his shingle’ upon receiving his diploma and begins his practice of law. Hiram C. Davis of Wichita, who graduated from the School of Law in June nearly a year ago to be immediately sent to the legislature, met with all the difficulties that have to be dealt with by the self-supporting student. He entered the University with the degree of bachelor of arts from Friends College at Wichita. In the latter school he had made his own way by carrying papers and sweeping out the office of a well-known lawyer. He put in his leisure time reading Blackstone in this office…. Upon coming to Lawrence, Davis had barely sufficient funds to last him a month. What he lacked in cash, however, he more than made up in ambition and determination. He got a job at the home of Governor Stubbs tending the furnace and caring for the Governor’s stable. It was over a mile to the University so Davis practiced the old-fashioned habit of arising before dawn to study. At Commencement time, however, his averages were among the best in his class and he was considered one of the foremost students to receive the degree of bachelor of law.”