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Lookabaugh, Ira Holmes

lawyer, was born Feb. 5, 1868, in Pittsburg, Pa.

He received his education at the Campbell university of Holton, Kan., and at the Kansas university of Lawrence. He graduated from the commercial and scientific course at Campbell university, and from the art and law departments at the Kansas university. He has been cashier of a bank, traveling salesman, and a school teacher. In 1892 he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Kansas and has attained prominence in his profession in Oklahoma territory at Watonga, where he takes an active part in the public affairs of that territory.

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