This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Darby Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4098 Message Board Post: FIRST: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. June 4, 1896. -- "In this paper will be found the announcement of Prof. D. D. Darby asking of the Republican party the nomination for the office of clerk of the district court. "Prof. Darby is a lifelong Republican, is well known to many of the citizens of Fremont county, more especially in the eastern part of the county. He is an upright honorable gentleman, refined, courteous, well educated and thoroughly competent to fill the office he asks for. "He was born Sept. 1, 1859 in Green township, Fremont county, Iowa. Early education: district school; attended Amity College in College Springs, Iowa; later graduating at the Maryville Business College, Maryville, Mo. "Spent three years in Montana during which time he did some educational work and read law in Helena. The year of '86 he entered the Western Normal College, Shenandoah, Iowa, and remained there about two years, graduating in penmanship under Prof. Kensley. The year of '92 he was principal of the penmanship department of Tarkio College, Tarkio, Mo. Since that time he has taught school principally in Fremont county." SECOND: Just before this date, during the winter term of district school at Lacy Grove which started in late 1895, D. D. Darby was employed as the teacher. Darby was retained for the spring term at Lacy Grove which ran into May 1896. While living in the neighborhood, Darby contributed a column entitled "Lacy Grove News" to the Fremont County Sun. He named a number of families in connection with his weekly reports to that paper. I have never seen a historical sketch of Lacy Grove, or a biographical listing of its residents. However, by recognizing Darby's listing as a partial roster of residents of Lacy Grove during 1895 and 1896, one may have a look at that neighborhood during these months. Each time a family name was mentioned, a note was made along with the date of the Sun issue in which it was found. Following this, from time to time I will add another posting. Each will concern one of the families which Darby mentioned in his "Lacy Grove News" column in the Sun. There appears to be about three dozen family names -- plus several district schools--which Darby included in his contributions. This will make up "Darby's List" of people and places from the Lacy Grove neighborhood as he knew it.--W.F.