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Clarence Darrow was born in rural northeastern Ohio on April 18, 1857.

He was the son of Amirus Darrow and Emily ( Eddy ) Darrow.

Both the Darrow and the Eddy farms had deep roots in colonial New England, and several of Darrow's ancestors served in the American Revolution.

Clarence's father was an ardent abolitionist and a proud iconoclast and religious freethinker, known in town as the " village infidel.

" Emily Darrow was an early supporter of female suffrage and a women's rights advocate.

Clarence attended Allegheny College and the University of Michigan Law School but did not graduate from either institution.

He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1878.

The Clarence Darrow Octagon House, which was his childhood home in the small town of Kinsman, Ohio, contains a memorial to him.