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Charles Ben Darwin
Des Moines County
CHARLES BEN DARWIN died at Napa Asylum near San Francisco, Cal., late in April or early in May, 1901. He resided for some years during the fifties and sixties in Burlington, Iowa, where he rose to a commanding position at the bar. He was one of the Code Commissioners who prepared and reported the “Revision of 1860,” his associate being Hon. W. T. Barker of Dubuque. He also prepared the Code of Tennessee, and was at one time U. S. district judge of the territory of Washington. He was a man of great ability and learning, and one of the foremost lawyers of Iowa. The newspaper notices of his death contained no precise dates.