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Muscatine County, Iowa. The town of Durant is located in Farmington Township, Cedar County. Many refer to it as a Tri-County town for part of its' land rests on Cedar, Muscatine and Scott Counties. U.S. maps show the cemetery to be located in Muscatine County, Fulton Township.
Durant was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, to French-Canadian Catholic parents Joseph Durant and Mary Allard, who had been part of the Quebec emigration to the United States. In 1900, Durant was educated by the Jesuits in St. Peter's Preparatory School and, later, Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, New Jersey.