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Louis W. Shouse has practically been an inmate of
Kansas City all his life. He was born here in 1867, attended the
local public schools, and then entered William Jewell College at
Liberty, quitting that institution with an M. A. degree tucked under
his arm. He worked for a while in the bank of H. S. Mills, then
served for two years with the National Bank of Kansas City, after
which he set sail for Old Mexico, where he engaged in the arduous
pastimes of coffee and sugar planting. While in that country he
also filled the position of U. S. Vice-Consul at Vera Cruz, and might
have gone higher in the consular service had he chosen to remain in
it.
In 1896 he returned to Kansas City, and
accepted a position with the Times where his brilliant pen advanced
him steadily. In 1900 he resigned to accept the assistant
managership of the Orpheum. So finely did he perform his duties
that upon the death of John Loomas in 1901 he was unanimously chosen
secretary and manager of Convention
Hall.
Mr. Shouse is a Phi Gamma Delta and a Mason.
He married Miss Nora Petty, of Liberty, in
1887, and has two children.
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