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own Life; and History of the Florentine Republic and the Mediei. He died Aug. 17, 1838, in

New York

City.

Darby, Ezra, congressman. In 1805-09 he

was a representative from New Jersey

to

the ninth and tenth congresses. 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. He was the author of Manual of Botany; The Botany of the Southern States; and Chemistry. He died Sept. 18, 1877, in New York City. Darby, John Eaton, educator, physician, naturalist, scientist, was born on Aug. 20, Williamstown, Mass. In 1858 he graduated from Williams college; and in 1861 duly graduated from the medical col1835,

in

Western reserve university, in 1858-60 he was professor of latin and Greek in the Cleveland institute; and in 1861-62 was demonstrator of anatomy in the medical college of the Western reserve university. In 1862-66 during the civil war he was a surgeon in the United States service. In 1867-87 he was surgeon for the Cleveland and Pittsburg railway company; and during the same period was also visiting surgeon to the Lakeside hospital. In 1867-1906 he was professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the medical college of the Western reserve university; and since 1906 has been professor therapeutics emeritus. Since 1895 he has been a member of the medical board of the city hospital of Cleveland, Ohio. He has made special studies in natural history; is well known as a naturalist; and has contributed extensively to lege of the

scientific literature.

Darby, John Fletcher, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dee. 10, 1803, in Person county, N.C. He was four times chosen mayor of the city of St. Louis; and served one term as a member of the state senate. In 1851-53 he was a representative from Missouri to the thirty-second congress.

He

died

May

11, 1882, in St. Louis,

Mo. Darby, William, geographer, lecturer, author, was born in 1775 in Pennsylvania. He was the author of 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. 1864, in Washington, D.C.

He

died

Oct.

9,

Darby, William Johnson, clergyman, foundwas born Nov. 17, 1848, in Lyon county, Ky. In 1871-81 he was pastor of Cumberland presbyterian church at Evansville Ind. and since 1895 has been educational secretary of the C. P. church. He was chiefly instrumental in establishing the Woman's board of er,



missions, board of ministerial relief, of which he is vice-president. Darcey, John S., physician, state legislator, railroad president, was born Feb. 24, 1788, in Hanover, N.Y. He was a member of the state legislature in 1819; and in 1835-41 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, bom in 1829 in Alabama. She is the author of Romances of the Texas Revolu-

was

tion;

and Poems.

Darden, Miles, giant, was

bom

in 1798 in seven feet six and at his death weighed more than one thousand pounds. He died Jan. 23, 1857, in Henderson county, Tenn. Dare, Virginia, was born in August, 1587, in Roanoke, Va. She was the first child of English parents born in the new world. She

North

Carolina. inches in height,

He was

died in Virginia.

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 Y'orksville, S.C. She is the author of Riverlands, a prize story; 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 1845-47 he was a representative from Alabama to the twenty-ninth congress; and in 1849-52 was chief justice. He died in November, 1879, in Mobile, Ala.

Dargan, Edwin Charles, clergyman, auwas born Nov. 17, 1852, in Darlington county, S.C. In 1876 he was ordained to the ministry; and since 1907 he has been pastor of the first baptist church of Macon, Ga. He is the author of Notes on Colossians; A History of Preaching; and other works. 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. In 1883-91 he was a representative

thor,



from South Carolina to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses as a democrat. He died June 29, 1898, in Darlington, S.C. Dargan, Theodore A., physician, surgeon, author, was born in 1823 in Sleepy Hollow, S.C. He served in the civil war in confederate service as surgeon. In 1859 he published a paper on the subject of Typhoid Fever. Dargon, George W., lawyer, state senator, in 1801 in South Carolina. He was a member of the state senate for several years; commissioner in equity for Charleston; and in 1847-59 was chancellor of South

was born

Carolina. bia, S.C.

He

died June 12, 1859, in Colum-