1900's Education | Farmington

Autobiography

By: Clarence S. Darrow

Date: 1904

Source: Darrow, Clarence S. Farmington. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1904. Reprinted in Fuess, Claude M. and Emory S. Basford, eds. Unseen Harvests. New York: Macmillan, 1947, 43–45, 47.

About the Author: Clarence Seward Darrow (1857–1938) was well known for his defense of labor organizations and for his skill as a criminal lawyer. He became famous in the "Scopes Monkey Trial," when he defended high school teacher John T. Scopes, who had violated Tennessee's ban on teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Darrow was born in Kinsman, Ohio, in 1857 and died in Chicago in 1938.

Introduction

First published in 1904, Farmington is Darrow's autobiography and recounts his youth in Ohio. In "The School Readers," Darrow provides an example of what generations of schoolchildren experienced as they learned to...