Personal Background
L.W. Housel was born in VanEttenville, New York, to a veteran of the Civil War and his wife. The better portion of his young life was spent in Nichols, New York. After attending rural schools in New York and working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900.
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