Dail, Charles C
lawyer, author, poet, was born Jan. 5, 1851, in Kentucky. He was left an orphan when an infant, and at seven years of age became a newsboy and bootblack in the streets of Cincinnati.
He became a citizen of Kansas at maturity, and has ever since made that state his home, and he has attained success as an able lawyer of Kansas City. He is the author of a volume entitled A Hundred Poems; and Willmoth the Wanderer, a work of fiction, which have gained for him a good reputation as a poet and novelist. re-