Darby, Edwin (Wheeler) 1922-2003
DARBY, Edwin (Wheeler) 1922-2003
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born January 7, 1922, in Oakland, MD; died of heart failure August 9, 2003, in Chicago, IL. Journalist and author. Darby was a noted former financial editor for the Chicago Sun-Times. Educated at Ohio University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1942, he finished school at the beginning of World War II. He joined the U.S. Army Air Forces and spent the war teaching pilots to fly B-25s. After the war, he joined the staff at Time magazine as a White House correspondent and, later, Midwest correspondent. In 1958 he was hired by the Chicago Sun-Times to be its financial editor and columnist, a position he kept until his retirement in 1995. Darby became well known in the field of business writing, and his columns for the Sun-Times were eventually syndicated in about seventy newspapers nationwide. He was also the author of the book The Fortune Builders (1986).
OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Baltimore Sun, August 13, 2003, p. 5B.
Chicago Tribune, August 12, 2003, section 1, p. 11.