Clarence S. DarrowClarence Seward Darrow was born in Farmdale, Ohio on April 18, 1857. Most of his childhood was spent in Kinsman. He rose to prominence in American legal history for his role as a defense counsel in a number of dramatic criminal trials. He began teachng school in Kinsman in 1873, at the age of 16, and stayed for three years. Around this time, he began studying law on his own with the help of a lawyer. Darrow only spent a year in law school before being accepted to the Ohio bar in 1878 and began practicing law in Youngstown, which was about twenty miles from where he was born. As soon as he arrived in Chicago in 1887, he participated in efforts to release the anarchists accused of murder in the Haymarket Riot (May 4, 1886). He prevented Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold (1924) from receiving the death penalty (albeit not from imprisonment) for the Chicago slaying of 14-year-old Robert Franks. Darrow represented a high school teacher in the infamous Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee (July 10-21, 1925) who had breached the law by teaching the Darwinian theory of evolution. Read More Read Less