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Louis C. Boyle was born February 26, 1866, at Port
Colborn, Canada, and is of Irish descent. He spent his childhood
in the town of his birth, his family removing, when he was eight years
of age, to Watford, Canada. He acquired the rudiments of an
education there, and left home when fifteen years of age, going to
Colorado to work in the mines. He saved his money and studied at
night with a determination of taking an academic course at Ann
Arbor. Before he had completed the course he found that the sum
he had saved was insufficient to take him through the academic course,
so changed to law and graduated from the school in 1889, being
afterwards admitted to the bar in Michigan. Mr. Boyle went to
Kansas and settled at Fort Scott. He was always a Democrat, and
the members of his party elected him Prosecuting Attorney of Bourbon
County, an office he held for four years. After his terms in
this office he returned to general practice in Ft. Scott, but was
afterwards the nominee of his party for Attorney-General of Kansas in
1896. He was elected, and at the conclusion of his term in 1899
came to this city, where he has resided since. Mr. Boyle is a
member of many fraternal and social orders, among them the Elks,
Masons, K. of P., and is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He
married Miss Gertrude Burson, of Garnett, Kas., in 1890. They
have three children, George, Katherine, and Clara Louise.
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