Armstrong County PA Archives Biographies.....Darin, Edward E. September 4, 1861 - ????
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Source: "History of Henry County, Illinois", Volume II, Chicago: The Pioneer Publishing Company, 1910.
Author: Henry L. Kiner

Edward E. Darin, an enterprising and prosperous 
agriculturist and stockman of Phenix Township, makes his 
home on a well improved farm of one hundred and sixty-six 
acres on Section 26 and is likewise the owner of another 
tract of one hundred and twenty-one acres on the same 
section.  It was on the latter farm that his birth occurred, 
his natal day being September 4, 1861.  His parents were 
John Jackson and Eleanor (Clarke) Darin.

Edward E. Darin was reared to manhood on the old homestead 
farm and attended the common schools in pursuit of an 
education that would equip him for the practical and 
responsible duties of life.  His father allowed him to keep 
the money which he earned in his youthful days and when 
twenty years of age gave him the use of a field and told him 
he might have the proceeds of the crop.  In this way he 
accumulated capital sufficient to enable him to purchase a 
farm of his own and 1882 he came into possession of his 
present place of one hundred and sixty-six acres on Section 
2, Phenix Township, paying about fifty-four dollars per acre 
for the land.  He has erected thereon a modern and 
substantial residence, as well as good barns and 
outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock, and 
altogether has a highly improved and well-developed farm, 
the fields annually yielding bounteous harvests of golden 
grain. In addition to the cultivation of cereals he is also 
engaged in the raising, feeding and shipping of stock and in 
both branches of his business has won a gratifying and 
well-merited degree of success.  He also owns the old 
homestead place of one hundred and twenty-one acres on which 
he was reared, having purchased the property in 1905 for one 
hundred and fifty-two dollars an acre.  This was the first 
farm in Henry County that sold for as high a price as one 
hundred and fifty dollars an acre.

On the 8th of March 1893, in Geneseo Township, Mr. Darin was 
united in marriage to Miss Nettie M. Ward, who was born near 
Geneseo.  Her parents Thomas and Mary (Nuttycombe) Ward are 
still residents of Phenix Township.  Mr. And Mrs. Darin now 
have three children, namely:  Harold Avery, born July 27, 
1894; Mary Eleanor, whose birth occurred May 17, 1897; and 
John Ward, who first opened his eyes to the light of day on 
the 16th of June, 1903.

Politically Mr. Darin is a stanch advocate of the principles 
of the Republican Party.  He has served as collector for two 
terms but has not been an office seeker, preferring to 
concentrate his energies upon his business affairs.  
Fraternally he is identified with Modern Woodmen Camp, No. 
40, also Mystic Workers of the World.  Both he and his wife 
and well known and highly esteemed throughout the county in 
which they have spent their entire lives and the number of 
their friends has steadily increased as the circle of their 
acquaintances has widened.


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