Darrow family scrapbooks, [ca. 1881]-1925.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Darrow, Clarence S. (Clarence Seward), 1857-1938

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Clarence Seward Darrow, prominent Chicago trial lawyer, was born in Kinsman, Ohio on April 18, 1857. He attended Allegheny College, after which he studied one year at the University of Michigan Law School. He then worked as a lawyer in Youngstown, and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1878. He practiced in Ohio for nine years, before moving to Chicago, where he practiced privately before being appointed assistant corporation counsel for the City of Chicago. For four years he served as Chi...

Darrow, Jessie Ohl.

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Ohio native who was the first wife (1880-1897) of Clarence Darrow, the Chicago labor and criminal defense lawyer. Jessie Ohl Darrow and Clarence Darrow had one son, Paul Edward, during their marriage, which dissolved amicably. After graduating from Dartmouth and marrying, son Paul settled in Estes Park, Colo., where he managed the Greeley Gas Works. From the description of Darrow family scrapbooks, [ca. 1881]-1925. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 5338...

Darrow family.

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Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904 or 5-1971

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Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. (1904-1971) is notorious for his partnership with Richard Loeb in the murder of a 14-year-old neighborhood boy, Bobby Franks, on May 24, 1924. Both from prominent Kenwood families and students at the University of Chicago (Leopold 1920-1924 and Loeb 1919-1924), they planned an intellectual exercise, "the perfect murder." They were discovered eight days later. With Clarence Darrow working for the defense, they were sentenced to life imprisonment. Paroled in 1958, N...

Darrow, Paul, 1883-

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Loeb, Richard A., 1905-1936

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Ohl family.

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Scopes, John Thomas

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