Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... mother was Caroline Puett, of Rockville, Indiana, and a daughter of Austin M. Puett, a pioneer from North Carolina. William Darroch grew up on his father's farm in Newton County, and received a thorough practical training in the industry of cattle raising. He was too young for service in the Civil war, though two of his older brothers went into the Union army, and their absence from home threw upon his young shoulders at the age of fourteen the duties and responsibilities of a grown man. Many years later when the country fought its next war with Spain, Mr. Darroch was too old for service. From 1871 to 1874 Mr. Darroch was a student in old Asbury, now DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana, and was graduated with the class of 1874 Bachelor of Science. In connection with other studies he took the law course, and his career ever since he began practice in the spring of 1875 has been primarily devoted to this great profession. However, he followed the business to which he was trained as a boy, that of a cattle raiser, in connection with farming interests, until 1892. The distinctive feature of Mr. Darroch's career as a lawyer has been its uninterrupted activity for a period of more than forty years. He has the record of not having missed a single term of court in Newton County since he started practice, and of having pioneered the work of all public improvement in the county authorized by statute. He has been engaged in many important cases, and of special note was his work from 1887 to 1889 in securing, through an act of the Indiana Legislature, the title to about 16,000 acres of land in Newton County, known as the bed of Beaver Lake. This litigation involved some very interesting history on the subject of land titles. He has also been...
