DARNALL, George D.

DARNALL, METCALFE

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Date: 7/27/2014 at 13:34:35

George D. Darnall was born near Paris, Edgar County, Illinois, May 28, 1843, and died in West Union, Iowa, May 17, 1928. His parents were William D. and Eliza J. (Metcalfe) Darnall. In boyhood, he attended a subscription school, which cost five cents per day and required him to walk three miles to reach it. He later attended Paris Academy, taught school awhile, studied medicine with Dr. Mark Rowe of Grand View, Illinois, and in 1866 began the practice of medicine at Cherry Point, Illinois. In 1867 he removed to Solon, Iowa, where he practiced his profession, occasionally attending lectures at the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1872; following that he practiced two years at Pomeroy, Iowa, but in 1874 removed to West Union where he practiced until a few weeks before his death. He was successful in his profession and in business, being interested financially in the drug business, in banking and in property investments. For several years he was chairman of the Republican County Central Committee of Fayette County, was a member of the town council and was elected representative in 1887 and served in the Twenty-second General Assembly.

Source: Annals of Iowa, Third Series, Vol. XVI, No. 7, January 1929, Pg. 557.