This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Darby Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4184 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. June 27, 1895: 1. -- Prof.D.D. Darby, the penman and teacher, of Northboro, Iowa, is in attendance at the Normal Institute here this week. Mr. Darby has been secured by County Superintendent Simons to do the artistic lettering and manuscript work on the diplomas for the rural district graduates. The superior penwork done by the Prof. on these diplomas show him to be one among the finest penmen in the state of Iowa. 2.--(ADVERTISEMENT): D. D.DARBY, penman, NORTHBORO, IOWA. Graduate of two penmanship schools. Plain and ornamental writing. Flourishing. Lettering. Drawing, etc., etc........Card writing a specialty. Send stamp for estimates. THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. July 25, 1895.-- Prof. D. D. Darby of Northboro, was in Sidney a part of last week looking after a fall and winter term of school. Mr. Darby visited Tabor, Anderson, Bartlett and Thurman while in the county and the interesting and well written correspondence from those places appearing in THE SUN this week are from the pen of the wide awake professsor. He departed for his home in Page county Tuesday but we understand he expects to return and teach near Sidney the coming fall and winter. N.B.: While Darby was teaching the Lacy Grove school during the winter and spring terms, he was the FREMONT COUNTY SUN correspondent for the "Lacy Grove News" from December 1895 through May 1896. I am using the names of residents of Lacy Grove which he mentioned, to make up the "Darby's List" of people who lived in the Lacy Grove Neighborhood. Never before have I seen any listing of those people who lived in that neighborhood between Sidney and Thurman. To access the names of those living in Lacy Grove, use the SEARCH SPACE and type in "Darby Outline".--Walter Farwell