Elizabeth C. Darst

Miss Lillie C. Darst, who has been elected enrolling clerk of the Ohio Senate, is the first woman who has ever had any position of that sort in the state. Miss Darst is the bright, vivacious lady who for some years past has edited the Circleville Herald.

Monday, 19 JAN 1880 - The Marion Daily Star, Marion, Ohio

The Attorney General of this State has given an opinion that the act authorizing woman to be appointed as Notaries Public is unconstitutional for the reason that all officers of the state are required to be also electors. Upon this the anti-railroad people in various parts of the state assumed that all the acts of the late session of the legislature were unconstitutional because Miss Lillie Darst was the engrossing clerk of the House. The Attorney General has indicated that his opinion does not reach that case, as the clerks of the House are not officers within the meaning of the constitution, and refers to instances where such places were held by minors.

Thursday, 27 MAY 1880 - Cambridge Jeffersonian, Cambridge, Ohio