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V. L. DARBY. M. D.. A rising young physician of Denton, V. L. Darby. M. D., where he has a good practice, is fast winning for himself an honored name in the medical profession. He was born, February 29, 1884, on a farm near Monroe, Walton county, Georgia, and this year, 1912, had the pleasure of celebrating his natal day the seventh time. His parents, W. L. and Lulu (Hale) Darby, were both natives of Walton county, having been born on neighboring plantations.

Completing his early education in the Vidalia High school. V. L. Darby spent two years in the Medical department of the University of Georgia, in Augusta, and at the age of twenty-one years, in 1905, was graduated from the Maryland Medical College, in Baltimore, there receiving the degree of M. D. Then, after practicing medicine in Vidalia, Georgia, for a year, he took a post graduate course in New Orleans, while in that city spending some time at the Central America Yellow Fever Quarantine station for the state of Louisiana, gaining professional knowledge and experience impossible to acquire elsewhere. Returning to Georgia, Dr. Darby settled first in Hoschton, from there coming again to Vidalia, where he built up a good patronage, and about February 1, 1913, he moved to Denton; his success in dealing with difficult cases having won for him the confidence and good will of the people.

Dr. Darby has the distinction of being a charter member of the Chi Zeta Chi medical fraternity, which was organized at the University of Georgia in 1903, being the first Greek Letter society of that institution. He also belongs to several of Vidalia's fraternal lodges, including the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and the Woodmen of the World. Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist church.

At Hoschton, Georgia, Dr. Darby was united in marriage with Ruth Hosch, a daughter of Hon. John R. Hosch, her father having been a man of prominence and influence, and one of the leading lumber manufacturers and dealers of his community. The doctor and Mrs. Darby have one child, Virgil Hosch Darby, born in 1909.

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