DARLING, J. S.

DARLING, CHENEY

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Date: 10/3/2001 at 18:34:08

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P.
Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

J. S. DARLING, attorney at law, Post Office Block, Fifth avenue; is a native of Niagara, Canada; born March 3, 1830; when 10 years of age, his father removed to the London District, near St. Thomas; he received a common-school education, and, when 18 years of age, he went to Oberlin, Ohio, and studied two years, then returned to Canada, and commenced reading law; in 1850, he came with his parents to Iowa, and located in Jackson Co.; he went east with his brother, Thomas C. Darling, now of Kansas, and attended the State and National Law School, at Ballston Spa, and also attended the same institution, after its removal to Poughkeepsie; he was admitted to the bar Aug. 11, 1853, and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State at the same time; he returned to Iowa, and located at Sabula, where he practiced law until 1870, then came to Clinton, and since then has practiced here. He was elected County Judge of Jackson Co. in 1867, and served two years. He married Miss Charlotte F. Cheney, a native of Essex Co., N.Y.; they have one son-Douglass Jerold, now in the law department of the State University.