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Darby, John Fletcher – Darling, Edward Irving

Darby, John Fletcher

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 10, 1803, in Person county, N. C. He was four times chosen mayor of the city of St. Louis, and once a member of the state senate. He was a representative in congress from 1851 to 1853 from Missouri.

Darby, William

geographer, lecturer, author, was born in 1775, in Pennsylvania. He was a geographer who published Geographical Dictionary of Louisiana; Plan of Pittsburg and Adjacent Country; Emigrant's Guide to the Western Country; Tour from New York to Detroit; Geography and History of Florida; View of the United States; Lectures on the Discovery of America; Mnemonica, a Register of Events from the Earliest Period; and Geographical Dictionary. He died Oct. 9, 1864, in Washington, D. C.

Darcey, John S

physician, state legislator, was born Feb. 24, 1788, in Hanover, N. Y. He was a member of the state legislature in 1819. In 1835-41 he was United States marshal for New Jersey. On the incorporation of the New Jersey Railroad company he was elected its president, and held the office till his death, a period of over thirty years. He died Oct. 22, 1863, in Newark, N. J.

Darden, Mrs. Fannie Baker

author, poet, was born in 1829, in Alabama.

She is the author of Romances of the Texas Revolution; and Poems.

DARDEN, GEORGE WASHINGTON, educator, lawyer, was born Nov. 17, 1865, near Lafayette, Ala. He taught school for several years; and is now a prominent lawyer of Oneonta, Ala., of which city he was mayor in 1892.

Dare, Virginia

was born in August, 1587, in Roanoke, Va. She was the first child of English parents born in the new world.

Dargan, Clara Victoria

author, poet, was born about 1840, in Winnsboro, S. C. After the close of the civil war she became a teacher in Yorkville, S. C.

She is the author of Riverlands, a story of life on the River Ashley, which originally appeared as a prize story in the Southern Field and Fireside; and of another novel that obtained a prize and was published as a serial.

Dargan, Edmund Spawn

jurist, statesman, was born April 15, 1805, in Montgomery county, N. C. In 1847 he was elected to fill a vacancy on the bench of the supreme court of Alabama; and in 1849 he became chief justice, which office he resigned in 1852, and resumed the practice of law in Mobile. He died in November, 1879, in Mobile, Ala.

Dargan, George W

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1841, in Darlington county, S. C. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1877; and was elected solicitor of the fourth judicial circuit in 1880. He was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.

Dargan, Theodore A

physician, surgeon, author, was born in 1823, in Sleepy Hollow, S. C. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the confederate service as surgeon, and served until the end. In 1859 he published a paper on the subject of Typhoid Fever, which was extensively noticed.

Darling, Charles W

soldier, was born Oct. 11, 1830, in New Haven, Conn.

He served through the civil war and received the rank of colonel. In 1867 he was elected military engineer-in-chief of the state of New York.

Darling, Edward Irving

composer, author, the only child of the late General Edward I. Darling of Louisiana, who was killed in the confederate service of 1864, and of Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, was born Oct. 9, 1862, in Lancaster, N. H. He received his education in the Kentucky Military institute, and later at Mount Pleasant Military academy. At the age of nineteen his first opera was produced, which won for him a prominent place in musical circles. He died in New York.