PARTNERS IN LIFE AND LAW

[Janet Harrington]

THE FIRM OF EBY & EBY CONSISTS OF MR. AND MRS.

Graduated from the Harvard law School Together, the Pair Came Here to Practice - The Fair Member is of a Wealthy Southern Family

EBY & EBY, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW

  It isn't Mr. Eby and Mr. Eby, either; it is Mr. William M. Eby and Mrs. William M. Eby.  Their two small children are left at home in charge of a maid and Mrs. Eby boards a street car for the office at 837 New York Life Building with Mr. Eby early in the morning.  And whether he appears on the street or in court, she always is with him.
  While they have been practicing law in Kansas City just two months, they can't be classed among the "poor young barristers."  Mrs. Eby is wealthy, and Mr. Eby's father, A. F. Eby, is cashier of the Howard National Bank, Howard, Kas., and is wealthy.  Mrs. Eby is a native of Savannah, Ga., and her maiden name was Gertrude Irene Gordon, distantly related to the famous General Gordon, to whose memory a monument was erected in Savannah, Ga., many years ago.
  On a visit to Boston in 1902, Miss Gordon and William M. Eby met.  Mr. Eby was just emerging from Harvard with his sheepskin.  A courtship of a few months ended in a wedding.  He was ambitious to become  a lawyer.  She was ambitious to have him become a lawyer if he desired to.
  "I wouldn't mind being a lawyer, too," she said to him one day.
  Agreed.  They entered the Harvard Law School and were graduated in the class of 1906.  They came to Kansas City in 1907 to open an office.  But the hard study in school had impaired Mrs. Eby's health.  They went to Asbury Park, N.J., to live for a while.  Two months ago they returned to Kansas City, opened a law office and the second parnership of Eby & Eby was formed.