The Archive · 1938

NOTED AMERICAN

LAWYER DIES

Mr. Clarence Darrow Passes at Age of 80 Years Chicago, Mar. 13.

Mr. Clarence" Darrow, massier criminal lawyer ana champion of the "underdog." died here to-day at the age of 80 after a long and colourful fareer_ which brought him fame {iroughout the world, Mr, Darrow, "the grand old. min or the courts," was born on April 16 {és7, in Kingsman, Ohio, the son of Amlius Darrow, "furniture maker, Undertaker and village was the ith of eight children, Mr. Darrow recalled turned from" his one legheny College "a better ball player {or my higher education" "He work: uring the summers and taught dlstrict school for $20 a month for three winters, as a result of the panic of 1878, His mother had died when ho was' fourteen,

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