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Title	Farmington
Subject	Daily Life Literary Ohio Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 Books
Place	Kinsman (Ohio) Trumbull County (Ohio)
Description	Clarence Darrow's book Farmington was published in 1904 and generally acknowledged to be a satire of the town of Kinsman and the people living there. Clarence Darrow grew up in Kinsman, where his family was not well liked. His family were agnostic Democrats in a town full of Christian Republicans. Kinsman librarian Julia Porter wrote Darrow asking for a copy of the book for the collection. He felt that the Kinsman "Free" Public Library could afford a copy. He did, however, send the book, the first chapter of which is included here. The entire volume is 200 pages long and 5 by 7.25 inches (12.70 by 18.42 cm). Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938) was born in Kinsman. His father was the village undertaker and coffin maker. Darrow practiced law in Ashtabula in the early 1880s. In 1894 he took a lucrative job as corporate counsel for Chicago and Northwestern Railway, but gave up that job to represent Eugene Debs, head of the railroad union. Darrow's most famous cases were Tennessee v. John Scopes (the "Monkey Trial"), 1925 and Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, 1924. The Scopes case related to the teaching of evolution in public schools. Darrow defended John T. Scopes, a biology teacher, who was tried for teaching Darwinism. William Jennings Bryan aided the state prosecutor. Darrow argued that the legislature had indicated a religious preference, violating the separation of church and state. Scopes was convicted but later released by the state supreme court. In 1924 Leopold and Loeb were charged with the kidnap and murder of 14-year-old neighbor, Bobby Franks. Leopold and Loeb, who were 19 and 18 years old at the time of the crime, were the sons of wealthy and powerful businessmen. The case generated intense public interest; Darrow's 12-hour-long summation was reprinted in newspapers. His plea to save his client's lives is considered the most eloquent attack on the death penalty ever delivered in an American courtroom. No client of Darrow's ever was executed. If it had happened, he said, it would have killed him.
Creator	Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938
Date of Original	1904 - 1919
Source	Published material
Submitting Institution	Kinsman Free Public Library
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Title	Om1705_2469253_001
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Full Text	FARMINGTON CHAPTER I ABOUT MY STORY I BEGIN this Story with the personal pronoun. To begin it in any other way would be only a commonplace assumption of a modesty that I do not really have. It is most natural that the per¬ sonal pronoun should stand as the first word of this tale, for I cannot remember a time when my chief thoughts and emotions did not concern myself, or were not in some way related to myself. I look back through the years that have passed, and find that the first consciousness of my being and the hazy indis¬ tinct memories of my childhood are all about myself, — what the world, and its men and its women, and its beasts and its plants, meant to me. This feeling is all there is of the past and all there is of the pres¬ ent; and as I look forward on my fast shortening path, I am sure that my last emotions, like my first, will come from the impressions that the world is yet able to make upon the failing senses that shall still connect me with mortal life. So why should I not begin this tale with the per-

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