Sedgwick-Kingman County KS Archives Biographies.....Blake, Earl 1866 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 19, 2007, 10:44 am Author: O. H. Bentley (1910) Earl Blake, of the firm of Blake & Ayers, lawyers, of Wichita, Kan., with offices at No. 451 Bitting Block, is a native of Iowa, having been born at Bedford, that state, on September 11, 1866. His parents were Daniel and Eliza A. (Akers) Blake, who moved from Indiana to Iowa in the '40s, and from the Hawkeye state to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1880, and to Kansas in 1884, where they located at Kingman. Both are now deceased. Earl Blake came to Kansas with his parents, entering Garfield University in 1889. His parents came to Wichita in 1892, and he has ever since resided in the city. He was educated at the public and high schools of Hopkins, Mo., and Kingman, Kan., and at Garfield University Law School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1891. Mr. Blake was admitted to practice at the Sedgwick county bar in 1891, and entered the employ of the law firm of O'Bryan & Gordon, and continued with them during the years 1891 to 1894, inclusive. He was Assistant County Attorney during the years 1895 and 1896, and a partner of John D. Davis from 1895 to 1898. He then formed a partnership with William A. Ayers under the firm name of Blake & Ayers, which partnership still continues, and in which he is now also associated with his brother, Walter A. Blake. During the years 1903 and 1904 Mr. Blake was City Attorney of Wichita. Mr. Blake is a thirty-second degree Mason. He has also filled all the offices in Warwick Lodge, No. 44, Knights of Pythias, and has been a trustee of the same for fifteen years. He is also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and of the Fraternal Aid Association. Mr. Blake was married in 1894 to Miss Minnie M. McKibben, the City Librarian of Wichita. Of this union four children have been born, viz.: Harold L., Marjorie L., Ralph B. and Louise M. Blake. Additional Comments: Extracted from History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/sedgwick/bios/blake225gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb