Father: Dr. Robert Fenner (1803-1874)
Mother: Ann Murley Jones (1813-1861)
08/19/1850 - Lived with parents and sibs, District No. 15, Madison Co., TN (indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as "Darden Fenner")
06/07/1860 - Medical student, Jackson, Madison Co., TN (lived with parents and sibs - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as Darwin Fenner)
06/12/1861 - Mother, Ann, died in Jackson, Madison Co., TN (buried: Riverside Cemetery, Jackson, TN)
05/02/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., Co. B, 1st LA Infantry (Nelligan's), New Orleans, LA
06/30/1861 - Hospital Steward, 1st LA Infantry (Nelligan's)
08/15/1861 - Discharged as Pvt., Co. B, 1st LA Infantry (Nelligan's) [Description - age: 20 years; height: 5 feet, 9 inches; complexion: light; eyes: blue; hair: auburn; profession: medical student;
08/16/1861 - "Private D. P. Fenner of Col. Blanchard's Louisiana Volunteers, is appointed Hospital Steward and will report for duty to the Colonel of his Regiment." [S.O. 125/13]
1859-1862 - Attended, The New Orleans School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA (from: TN; preceptor: Dr. E. D. Fenner)
1862 - M.D. degree, The New Orleans School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA (from Louisiana before medical school)
02/02/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon to rank from 02/02/1862 [possibly an appointment with Louisiana state troops]
04/09/1862 - "The following Medical Officers will proceed without delay to Corinth, Mississippi, and report to General G. T. Beauregard, Commanding for Hospital duty at that place, Asst. Surgn D. P. Fenner, Asst. Surgn J. P. Jenkins" [S.O. 81/7]
07/00/1862 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of Asst. Surgeon, Columbus, ?KY
07/05/1862 - Assigned to duty [S.O. 106/4 Dept. 2 & Western Dept. Gen. Bragg]
09/26/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from July 2, 1862
09/26/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from Louisiana by the Confederate States Senate
08/17/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Fenner's Battery, Louisiana Light Artillery
11/30/1863 - Fenner's Battery, Louisiana Light Artillery
01/01/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Fenner's Battery, Louisiana Light Artillery, Dalton, GA
04/21/1864 - Asst. Medical Officer, J. W. Eldridge's Battalion Light Artillery, Col. R. F. Beckham's Artillery Regt., near Dalton, GA
04/30/1864 - J. W. Eldridge's Battalion
05/31/1864 - Fenner's Battery, Louisiana Light Artillery
08/15/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Eldridge's Artillery Battalion, Gen. S. D. Lee's Corps, Atlanta, GA
10/14/1864 - J. W. Eldridge's Artillery Battalion, Army of Tennessee
05/04/1865 - Listed on a roll of prisoners of war captured by U.S. Army, Citronelle, AL
05/10/1865 - As Asst. Surgeon, Col. L. Hoxton's Regiment, paroled by the U.S. Army, Meridian, MS
01/14/1866 - Practiced medicine with Dr. Erasmus Darwin Fenner at No. 5 Carondelet St., New Orleans, LA [Source: Professional business card of Drs. E. D. and Darwin P. Fenner (1866) Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA, 01/14/1866, p. 5.]
10/24/1866 - Married, Mary Amanda Logan (1843-1928), Harrison Co., MS
06/22/1870 - Practiced medicine, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA (lived with wife, "Manda" and two children - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as "De T Fennier")
1873 - As physician-In-charge, Marine Hospital, Shreveport, Bossier Parish, LA, prepared a detailed report on a yellow fever epidemic at that place
01/12/1874 - Physician, Market Street Infirmary, Shreveport, LA
09/13/1874 - Father, Robert, died of "disease of the heart and lung" in Jackson, Madison Co., TN
~1875 - Moved to Guatemala City, Guatemala
11/30/1875 - Living in Guatemala
08/17/1876 - Appointed United States Consul to Guatemala - living in Guatemala City, Guatemala
12/07/1876 - "To the Senate of the United States, I nominate Darwin Ponton Fenner, of Louisiana, to be consul of the United States at Guatemala, vice John Graham, resigned, [signed] U. S. Grant"
06/07/1885 - General Agent for Shea, Cornick & Co., contractors of the Northern Railroad of Guatemala
10/07/1888 - Died, Guatemala City, Guatemala (buried: Cemeterio General, Guatemala City, Guatemala)
09/25/1928 - Widow, Amanda, died in New Orleans, LA (buried: Live Oak Cemetery, Harrison Co., MS)

Note: Dr. Darwin Ponton Fenner was the brother of Confederate Army physician, Dr. John Sobieski Fenner and the nephew of Confederate Army physician, Dr. Erasmus Darwin Fenner.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
09/09/2017. Unpublished database