Illustriana Kansas, page 52
Allison T. Ayres, lawyer and farmer, was born at College Hill,
Kentucky, July 14, 1865, son of Jeremiah and Margaret (Douthitt)
Ayres. The father was born in Pennsylvania, June 25, 1831, and
died at College Hill, June 7, 1899. He was a physician and
surgeon. His wife, Margaret, was born at College Hill, June 7,
1849, and died at Akron, Ohio, September 11, 1915.
After attending Ayres Academy at College Hill, Judge Ayres
was a student at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana and Kansas
University. He is a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Admitted to the
bar in September 1889, he has since been in active practice and is a
member of the American and Kansas State Bar Associations. For
thirty-six years he has been engaged in farming and livestock feeding.
A Republican, he was elected county attorney of Elk
County, serving from 1903 until 1906, and since January 1913, has been
judge of the district court for the thirteenth judical district of
Kansas (division one). For many years he has been vice president
of the First National Bank in Howard.
On December 29, 1892, he was married to Olive Jackson at
Howard. She was born in Indiana and died at Howard in December
1912. His second marriage was to Lottye H. Hurst, and was
solemnized at Birmingham, Alabama, in June 1918. (Photograph in
Album)
Residence: Howard.
Submitted by L. Morgan
