VI. FAMILY BACKGROUND

Mr. Kaeiser's great-great grandfather William Minor Kaeiser was a prominent attorney in the late 19th Century who, along with his uncle James Grant, made a small fortune suing railroad companies. William Minor Kaeiser was the plaintiff in a famous lawsuit of that period that was one of the first railroad cases reproduced in the law reports. See Kaeiser v. Illinois Central R.R., 6 F. 1 (8th Cir. 1880).

Mr. Kaeiser is also the great-great grandson (and namesake) of W.H.H. (William Henry Harrison) Clayton who was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas during the latter half of the 19th Century. W.H.H. Clayton was the prosecuting attorney in the Fort Smith court of Judge Isaac Parker, the famous/infamous "Hanging Judge," who had jurisdiction not only over the Western District of Arkansas but also over the adjacent "Indian Territories," that eventually became the state of Oklahoma. In his fourteen years as U.S. Attorney, Clayton prosecuted over 10,000 cases, personally obtaining 80 murder convictions and 40 executions on the Fort Smith gallows. In 1897, President William McKinley appointed W.H.H. Clayton the first federal judge in the Indian Territories.