Editing Clarence Darrow (section)

==Personal life==
Clarence Darrow was born in the small town of [[Farmdale, Ohio]], on April 18, 1857,<ref>{{cite book|last=Darrow|first=Clarence|title=The Story of My Life|year=1932|publisher=Grosset and Dunlap|location=New York|page=12}}</ref> the fifth son of Amirus and Emily Darrow (née Eddy), but grew up in nearby [[Kinsman, Ohio]]. Both the Darrow and Eddy families had deep roots in colonial [[New England]], and several of Darrow's ancestors served in the [[American Revolution]]. Darrow's father was an ardent [[abolitionism|abolitionist]] and a proud iconoclast and religious freethinker. He was known throughout the town as the "village infidel".<ref>{{cite book|last=Darrow|first=Clarence|title=The Story of My Life|year=1932|publisher=Grosset and Dunlap|location=New York|page=13}}</ref> Emily Darrow was an early supporter of [[female suffrage]] and a [[women's rights]] advocate.

The young Clarence attended [[Allegheny College]] in PA, and the [[University of Michigan Law School]]<nowiki/> in MI, but he did not graduate from either institution. He attended Allegheny College for only one year before the [[Panic of 1873]] struck, and Darrow was determined not to be a financial burden to his father any longer. Over the next three years he taught in the winter at the district school in a country community.

While teaching, Darrow started to [[Reading law|study the law]] on his own, and by the end of his third year of teaching, his family urged him to enter the law department at Ann Arbor. Darrow studied there for only a year when he decided that it would be much more cost-effective to [[read law]] in an actual law office. When he felt that he was ready, he took the Ohio bar exam and passed.<ref name="Darrow 1932">{{cite book|last=Darrow|first=Clarence|title=The Story of My Life|year=1932|publisher=Grosset and Dunlap|location=New York}}</ref> He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1878, where he continued to practice. The [[Clarence Darrow Octagon House]], his childhood home in Kinsman, contains a memorial to him.

Darrow married Jessie Ohl in April 1880. They had one child, Paul Edward Darrow, in 1883. They were divorced in 1897. Darrow married Ruby Hammerstrom, a journalist 16 years his junior, in 1903. They had no children.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}