Isabel Darlington, Esq., Belle of the Bar
Posted by Gail Long on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Isabel Darlington, Esq., Belle of the Bar On a crisp day in late December 1897, the members of the Chester County Bar Association gathered on the front steps of the courthouse in West Chester for their annual group portrait. Three dozen lawyers posed solemnly before the camera, each mustachioed face a mirror image of the next. For the first time in its one hundred and fifty year history, there was something noticeably different about...read more