Da Ponte, Lorenzo – Darling, William
Da Ponte, Lorenzo
dramatist, author, was born March 10, 1749, in Venice, Italy. He was an Italian dramatist who furnished libretti for Mozart's operas, Don Giovanni and Nozze di Figaro. He came to America in 1805, and after 1828 was professor of Italian in Columbia college.
He published his own Life; and History of the Florentine Republic and the Medici. He died Aug. 17, 1838, in New York city.
Dapper, Emil A
soldier, lawyer, was born Feb. 21, 1844, in New York city.
He received his education in the public schools of New York city. In 1861 he enlisted in company B, fifty-ninth regiment New York volunteer infantry as a private; and was honorably discharged in 1865 as captain of company B of the same regiment. As the senior officer in his regiment present for duty, he commanded the regiment at the time of Lee's surrender. In 1871 he was admitted to the bar at Grand Rapids, Mich., where he has ever since practiced his profession with success. He is a prominent member of the G. A. R.; and takes an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Darby, Ezra
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1804 to 1808. He died Jan. 28, 1808.
Darby, John
educator, author, was born Sept. 3, 1804, in North Adams, Mass.
He was an educator who was connected with various colleges north and south.
Manual of Botany; The Botany of the Southern States; and Chemistry, are some of his publications. He died Sept. 18, 1877, in New York city.
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.
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.
Darling, Alfred B
was born March 23, 1821, in Burke, Vt. He is the senior proprietor of the Fifth Avenue hotel of New York city, for many years the most famous and successful of American houses. In 1852 he became associated with Mr. Stevens, as partner, in the management of the Battle house in Mobile, Ala., then one of the finest and most costly hotels in the south. He has served from time to time as director in important institutions, among them being the Second National bank, the Fifth Avenue Safe Deposit Co., and The Union Dime Savings bank, all of New York city.
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.
Darling, Flora Adams
founder general of the Daughters of the Revolution, was born July 25, 1840, in Lancaster, N. H. She received her education at the Lancaster academy and from private instructors. She is a member of the wellknown Adams family, and inherits many traits of her ancestors. Her husband was killed while serving in the confederate army. She is the author of a number of books, the chief of which is Mrs. Darling's Letters, or Memories of the Civil War. She is also the author of A Wayward Winning Woman; The Bourbon Lily; Was it a Just Verdict; A Social Diplomat; From Two Points of View; The Senator's Daughter; Letters or Memoirs of the Civil War; and other novels. She has received the college degrees of A. M. and A. B. in recognition of her literary work.
Darling, Henry
clergyman, college president, author, was born Dec. 27, 1823, in Reading, Pa. He was a presbyterian clergyman who was president of Hamilton college in 1881-91. He was the author of The Close Walk; Slavery and the War; Conformity to the World; and Not Doing but Receiving. He died in 1891.
Darling, Lupi I
poet, was born in Westminster, Mass. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Messages From the Watch Tower.
Darling, Mary Greenleaf
author. She is the author of Battles at Home; In the World; and Gladys, a Romance.
Darling, Mason C
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 18, 1801, in Bellingham, Mass. He aided in establishing the towns of Sheboygan and Fond du Lac, Wis. He has been judge of probate, mayor of Fond du Lac, and a member for several years of the territorial legislature.
He was a representative in congress from the state of Wisconsin from 1847 to 1849.
Darling, Noyes
merchant, agriculturist, jurist, was born in 1782, in Woodbridge, Conn. He was a distinguished ag riculturist who passed the latter portion of his life in New Haven, of which city he was mayor, having served long as county surveyor, and was at the time of his death judge of the county court. He died Sept. 17, 1846, in New Haven, Conn.
Darling, William
physician, author, was born in 1815, in Scotland. He was a distinguished New York physician who published Anatmography, or Graphic Anatomy; and Essentials of Anatomy.
He died in 1884.