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The Kent Law School of Chicago Circular of Information, 1892-1893
Full text linkThe first Circular of Information for the Kent Law School of Chicago. This circular was originally labeled The Union Law School of Chicago, reflecting the original name of the Kent Law School, which it held for less than a year. The Kent Law School of Chicago was formed in 1892 by Marshall D. Ewell, a former professor of the Union College of Law of the Old University of Chicago. This original Union College of Law, founded in 1859, lost its charter and was fully absorbed into Northwestern University in 1891. During the 1891-1892 school year, Professor Ewell disagreed with the changes made by the new administration and formed the new Union College of Law in 1892.
This circular has been corrected in pencil to reflect the name change from Union to Kent, which took place shortly after its formation, as the law school of Northwestern University would still be officially known as the Union College of Law.https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/annual_announcements/1040/thumbnail.jp
The Kent Law School of Chicago Annual Register, 1892-1893
Full text linkThe Kent Law School of Chicago\u27s Annual Announcement for 1892-1893 and Circular of Information for 1893-1894. This is the first annual announcement published by the Kent College of Law.https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/annual_announcements/1000/thumbnail.jp
Cora B. Hirtzel
No full textCora B. Hirtzel, Class of 1890
Cora B. Hirtzel was born in Ottawa, Illinois and came to Chicago in 1887 after studying law in the offices of Jackson & Thompson in Oakland, Wisconsin. She took a “regular course” at the Chicago College of Law and graduated in 1890, and was admitted to the bar in October of the same year. By 1892 she had left her employer, Hon. W.C. Goudy, to specialize in briefing. In 1897, she was appointed to the position of Assistant Corporate Counsel by Corporate Counsel Thornton, the first woman to be appointed to the position in Chicago. The Chicago Legal News remarked at the time that “[s]he was not appointed by Mr. Thornton because she was a woman, but because she is an able lawyer and capable of rendering him as much assistance in the preparation of cases for court, and making briefs and arguments, as any lawyer he could select for that position.”https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/womeninlaw/1000/thumbnail.jp