Husband Paul E. Darling 1 2 3
Born: 5 Nov 1823 - Smethport, McKean Co, PA 4
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Died: 4 Nov 1881 - Brookville, Jefferson Co, PA 2
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Father: Dr. George Darling (1785-1869) 2 3 5
Mother: Lavinia Cannan ( -1831) 2
• Biographical Sketch: Kate M. Scott, History of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888).
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General Notes: Husband - Paul E. Darling
About the year 1837 he joined his father in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. Though but a boy in years when he came to Brookville, he was obliged to make his own living, and supported himself by teaching school. He afterwards entered the store of the late Thomas K. Litch as a clerk, and after a few years was made general manager of his extensive lumber business, and Mr. Litch was ever one of his warmest personal friends.
He was extremely frugal and saving in his habits, and as soon as he had accumulated a little money he invested it in the lumber trade and soon gained quite a competency, which, by judicious investments in western timber lands, he augmented to a large fortune, being worth $500,000 at the time of his death. Mr. Darling was one of the founders of the Jefferson County National Bank, of which institution he was vice-president at the time of his death.
He took care of his father and step-mother in their later years, both of whom preceded him to the grave, and after the marriage of his half-sister, Mary, to W. H. Gray, of Brookville. he made her house his home, where he died, after a painful illness of several weeks' duration, passing quietly from earth just one day before his fifty-eighth birthday dawned.