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Dr. Erastus S. Darling, A.M., LL.B., M.D.

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Howard (1907), Vol. 2 biographies

b. 10 Feb. 1872, Ontario, Canada, son of John (b. Apr. 1840, Ontario; retired in Toronto) and Catherine E. (Copper) Darling (b. 5 July 1845, Napanee, Canada; d. 8 July 1884) (Part 68, pp. 982–983). B.A., Victoria College, Toronto (honours in English literature and history); lecture platform two years; postgraduate work at New York University; law at the University of Minnesota 1895–1896, graduating in the two-year course; lecturing 1897; Indiana Medical College, Indianapolis, from 1898, graduating with the class of 1903 (Part 68). After a short time practising in Indianapolis he located in North Liberty, “where he has ever since continued in the practice of medicine”; a library of 1,500 volumes; a leading factor in establishing the North Liberty lecture bureau, serving as its president; A.M.A., Mason, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows (Part 68). A post-compilation note in the entry itself: “Since the above compilation the doctor has purchased property in… Gary, Indiana, and has located there to practice his profession” (Part 68). [REGISTER] Carrying fact: North Liberty’s most-credentialed physician (three degrees) — and the entry’s own Gary note dates his North Liberty chapter as already closing at publication. Both layers are printed; neither is smoothed.

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Source: Dr. Erastus S. Darling, A.M., LL.B., M.D., Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/people/dr-erastus-s-darling-a-m-ll-b-m/