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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaDARLINGTON, William
(1782—1863)
DARLINGTON, William, (cousin of Edward Darlington and Isaac Darlington), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Birmingham, Chester County, Pa., April 28, 1782; attended Friends School at Birmingham; spent his youth on a farm; became a botanist at an early age; studied medicine; was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1804; went to the East Indies as ship’s surgeon in 1806; returned to West Chester in 1807 and was a practicing physician there for a number of years; raised a company of volunteers at the beginning of the War of 1812 and was major of a volunteer regiment; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); elected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1823); appointed canal commissioner in 1825; president of the West Chester Railroad; established a natural-history society in West Chester in 1826; published several works on botany and natural history; director and president of the National Bank of Chester County 1830-1863; died in West Chester, Chester County, Pa., on April 23, 1863; interment in Oakland Cemetery.
Bibliography
Lansing, Dorothy I. That Magnificent Cestrian: Dr. William Darlington, 1782-1863, Being a Short Introductory Biography
. Paoli, Pa.: Serpentine Press, 1985.
Darlington, William.. Address before the Chester County Horticultural Society, at their first annual exhibition
. West Chester, Pa.: N.p., 1846.
—-. Address delivered before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture
. [Germantown: Printed at the Office of the Germantown Telegraph
, 1844].
—-. Address to the Chester County Cabinet of Natural Science, at the organization of the society, on the 18th of March, 1826
. West-Chester, Pa.: Printed by S. Siegfried, 1826.
—-. Address to the Chester County Medical Society
. West Chester, Pa.: Register & Examiner Steam Printing Establishment, 1852.
—-. Agricultural botany
. Philadelphia: J. W. Moore; 1847.
—-. American weeds and useful plants: Being a second and illustrated edition of Agricultural botany
. New-York: Orange Judd Company, 1879.
—-. Desultory remarks on the question of extending slavery into Missouri: As enunciated during the first session of the Sixteenth Congress, by the Representative from Chester County, state of Pennsylvania
. West Chester, Pa.: L. Marshall, printer, 1856.
—-. A discourse upon agriculture
. [Oxford]: N.p., 1847.
—-. A dissertation on the mutual influence of habits and disease
. Philadelphia: Printed for the author, by J. Rakestraw, 1804.
—-. An essay on the development and modifications of the external organs of plants. Compiled chiefly from the writings of J. Wolfgang von Goethe, for a public lecture to the class of the Chester County Cabinet of Natural Science. March 1, 1839
. West Chester, Pa., 1839.
—-. Flora cestrica: An herborizing companion for the young botanists of Chester County...Pennsylvania
. 3d ed. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1853.
—-. Florula cestrica; an essay towards a catalogue of the phænogamous plants, native and naturalized, growing in the vicinity of the borough of West-Chester, in Chester County, Pennsylvania ... To which is subjoined an Appendix of the useful cultivated plants of the same district
. West-Chester, Pa.: Printed for the author by S. Siegfried, 1826.
—-. Historical sketch of the origin and progress of the borough of West Chester, Pa
. West Chester: E. F. James, 1857.
—-. A lecture on the study of botany
. [Wilmington?]: N.p., 1844.
—-. Memorial of David Townsend. Born, December 13th, 1787, died, December 6th, 1858
. West Chester: E.F. James, printer, 1858.
—-. Perry-patetic songs and other jollification ditties collected chiefly from the columns of the American Republican
. West Chester, [Pa.]: Printed at the Office of the Republican
, 1824.
—-. A plea for a national museum and botanic garden: To be founded on the Smithsonian Institution, at the City of Washington
. Read before the Chester County Cabinet of Natural Science, December 3, 1841. West-Chester, Pa.: N.p., 1841.
Darlington, William, comp. Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall
. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849. Reprint, [With a new] introduction by Joseph Ewan. New York: Hafner, 1967.
James, Thomas Potts. An obituary notice of Dr. William Darlington, read before the American Philosophical Society, Feb. 19, 1864
. [N.p., 1864].
Lansing, Dorothy I. That Magnificent Cestrian: Dr. Willam Darlington, 1782-1863, Being a Short Introductory Biography
. Paoli, Pa.: Serpentine Press, 1985.
Pleasants, Henry. Chester County and William Darlington (1782-1863) Many Sided Genius
. New York: Newcomen Society in North America, 1949.
—-. Three Scientists of Chester County
. West Chester, Pa.: Printed by H. F. Temple, Inc., 1936.
Townsend, Washington. Memorial of William Darlington, M.D.
West Chester: E. F. James, printer, 1863.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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