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AMIL H. JAPP
Vol. 3, p. 1066

The legal profession of Cotton county number among its able and
thoroughly learned members, Amil H. Japp, city attorney of Walters,
an office which he has held since his arrival in this city in 1912.
Unlike many, Mr. Japp did not enter his practice in untried youth,
for his early years were passed in agricultural pursuits, but when
once entered upon his career he made steady advancement, so that
today he occupies a substantial and firmly-established place among
the practitioners of Cotton County.

Mr. Japp was born in Scott County, Iowa, June 18, 1877, and is a son
of John A. and Doris (SCHWIN) JAPP, the families on both sides being
old and honored ones in Germany. His father, born in 1836, in
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, came to the United States in 1876 and
settled at Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, where he began to
accumulate the means for the foundation of a home. About the year
1879 he went to Hamilton County, Iowa, where he continued his farming
and stock raising operations, remaining there until 1891, when he
came to Oklahoma and settled at El Reno, that being his home until
1902, since when he has lived at Lawton, retired. During his active
career he was an industrious and efficient workman and through
thrift, good management and well directed effort accumulated a
competence that allows him to pass his declining years in comfort. He
is a democrat in his political views, but is a modest, unassuming man
and has never sought public office, being content to remain in
private life. He and Mrs. Japp were members of the Lutheran Church.
She was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in 1831, where they were
married, and died at Lawton in 1908. They were the parents of two
children: Gus F., who resides at Lawton and is engaged in the real
estate and farm loan business; and Amil H., of this review.

Amil H. Japp was reared on his father's farm and attended the
district schools of Hamilton County, Iowa. At the age of eighteen
years he began operations on his own account, continuing in Iowa for
two years; and in 1889 came to El Reno, Oklahoma, taking up land
southwest of the city and cultivating it until 1898. In that year he
entered Fort Worth (Texas) University, where he was graduated from
the law department in 1901, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and
immediately entered upon the practice of his profession at Lawton, as
a pioneer citizen and legist of that community. On September 10,
1912, Mr. Japp removed to Walters, where he has since continued in
the practice of his profession, at this time carrying on a large
general civil and criminal practice. He maintains well appointed
offices in the Dyer-Blair Building, on Broadway, and is a valued
member of the Cotton county Bar Association, among the members of
which he bears a high reputation. A democrat in his political views,
he represented Comanche and Stephens counties in the First and Second
Oklahoma State Legislatures, and since coming to Walters has been
city attorney, his last appointment having been received May 1, 1915,
for a term of two years. He has been connected with a number of
important cases, in all of which he has conducted himself with
ability and dignity, and is justly accounted one of the men who have
made their mark in the law through the exercise of their own talents.
Mr. Japp belongs to Walters Lodge No. 228, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, and Guthrie Consistory No. 1, of the thirty-second degree in
Masonry; and to Walters Lodge No. 7732, Modern Woodmen of America,
and has many friends in fraternal circles.

In 1909 Mr. Japp was married to Miss Carrie M. HACKENBERG, daughter
of Frank Hackenberg, who has been engaged in farming in Oklahoma for
a number of years and is now residing at Lawton. Mr. And Mrs. Japp
have no children. They are members of the Presbyterian Church, in the
work of which they have taken an active and helpful part. Both are
popular in social circles of Walters.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Sherry Van Scoy Hall, November 1, 1998.