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Dargon, George W

lawyer, state senator, was born in 1801, in South Carolina. He was a member of the state senate for several years; commissioner in equity for Charleston; and from 1847 to the time of his death, the chancellor of South Carolina. He died June 12, 1859, in Columbia, S. C.

DARLEY, FELIX OCTAVIUS CARR, artist, author, was born June 23, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a well-known artist and illustrator whose home was at Claymont, Del. His only writing is included in Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil. He died in 1888.

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