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ward Darlington, the — son of Thomas pe ccc of piliscam was 
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ab so farm in Birmingham epics pes on which he was én seared: xis “whi is 
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ied Hannah, a daughter - “Toh —— of East repose 
etl county by whom he had five and two daughters. He w 
Pent man, Ap eng en and isenieds a cons piieralite influence fesse 
the citizens of his county, by whom he was several times elected a member of 
i ov died in Pico 
gton, of whom we shall now speak, was the eldest child of 
mak Darlington, ‘aid sic ae reste , each branch 
was an un ace of plain English 
He rly d to the severe taboo ot agrictiiara’: life, and, 
hen old enough to drive or hale the plough, was kept at work in the summer, 
and only permitted to go to school 1n the w r sea nm coun 
ay were lamentably deficient as compared with those of mod- 
ern times, yet he succeeded in obtaining a plain English arse under 
ohn Forsythe, an Irish Friend, one of the best teachers of that time in the 
nty, and who, durin a long period spent in that vocation; imparted the 
_ Tudiments of education Ste many ; who have since become eminent and useful 
izens of the republic. 
“ Becoming tired and a with = pst of farm eraey _—- then 
Was not one tithe as attractive s it has e been made by the inducements 
offe e by Agricaloural Chemistry, and Agricultural = 
Horticultural Sicisties and i in machiner pence Ae 
Phiten! a pier pete se of 
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pursuing with assiduity the study of that profession which he had 
as the bus ——— meek his life, he devoted those hours which, with many, 
idle recrea sag i of the 
ei i Aap an i ptt bee i pontlonm —— with the 
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canes the Union and scourged the country with a violence that made 
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skrin from pater awful ravages. olen other 
es, it age ted Wilmington, carrying and desolation in its train, 
; ers of the citizens sought ciety in in — even icians left 
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He the wie of 1802-3 and 1803-4, William Darlington attended the 
dical lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, and on the sixth of June, 
he received the degree of Deetor cet Maliink, being, as the writer 
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