ROYCE, La Rue N ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

Sources:
WWI draft registration card. Census reports. Minnesota death index.

Kansas and Kansans, Volume 3
"La Rue Royce, the only son of his parents, was born February 8, 1891, at 222 Clay Street in the City of Topeka. He is one of the fortunate young men of Kansas. He had the good fortune of a liberal inheritance in those marked qualities of intellect and character which have distinguished both his father and mother, and he deems it a part of his good furtune that he was born and reared in Kansas and has had the benefit of some of its best institntions. He was educated in the University of Kansas at Lawrence, and also in Washburn College at Topeka. He was graduated from Washburn with the degree A. B. in the class of 1914, and then continued his law studies there, graduating LL. B. in 1916. Soon after his graduation he established himself in practice at Salina. Mr. Royce also had the good fortune to marry one of the most cultured young women of the state. Mrs. Royce was formerly Miss Winifred Burch, a daughter of Judge R. J. Burch, an associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. She was born at Salina June 25, 1891, but was married October 25, 1916, at Topeka, where her father has his official residence."

  Noted events in his life were:

• Degree. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/bior/roycelr.html

• Occupation: attorney, 1918, Salina, KS. ⁴ In the firm of Burch, Litowich, and Royce. (He was Royce, and the Burch was Charles W Burch.)

• Residence: Colonial Apartments, 1918, Salina, KS. ⁴

• Honors: acceptance to the bar, 1916. ²

La married Winifred Teague BURCH, daughter of Rousseau Angelus BURCH and Clara Louise TEAGUE, on 25 Oct 1916 in Topeka, KS.¹ (Winifred Teague BURCH was born on 25 Jun 1891 in Kansas ¹.)

La next married Mildred L STANFORD, daughter of Unknown and Gertrude J. (Mildred L STANFORD was born in 1898 in Maryland.)