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An Old ifrtWemi Gotm.—Thomas Darlligton died at kit residence la Birmingham TownshipChester County, Pa., oo»ht.l7th Inst., aged 82 yea rt Ha lited tad died near Ikt tpot whAft bA WAA bom. Ha waa a brother of lb At Amiaeol botanist, Dr. Wm. Darlington, late of Waa I Chester. When a boy U wai bit iol U carry bit brolhtr’i WAAkiy washing to Iklt Ally, wbo waa thAO engaged In ibA stndy of medicine. Tkt recollections bt rAUiatd of our oily At that day, ware highly laUreallnf There woro ibAo f aw buildings wait of tbt ol 1 brewery At IbA corner of iib And OrnagA ti« In 1813 bA served lo a company known at tkt •‘Aruvrlcan Greys/*—few, very fa«r of wbooi are bow id tba world. Allboagh nevsr married. bo wat tba first, And lor a lima, tba only mao la ibe Towntbip who held oat for the Prat School System. Ha kept a record ol all the children, grand and great grand-childrao of Wm. Brintnn, who tailed from England in tba last part of the Seventeenth Oeatary, and pur-cbaaed nearly all the land that it now eoclottd in the tow nth ip-—from whom it teemt that nearly All the Darlington! And Bnotom hare descended; and among tham OAoaral Gaorga Brio inn McClellan. Thomat Darlington's memory wan eery good, and da had faloabla thinga traaaared la it. la tha “History of Delawara County/*—a work now In the Wilmington Library—hit bettowtnentt of praclont ireataraa from bit memory are therein thankfully acknowledged. Such honorable, op rig hi old men aland at land mark* in tba comma-nlty to tba youth and middle aged; and tbalr liras do amntually tall on that community wharein they dwell. They ara eiamplara to toa otb-r generations, to tbow bow far w« deviate from or bold to the principle! of rectitude; and the Iatt of tbit generation will aland forth to the next generation at odd In tome reapecta at bo lo ut. Ha wat much eateamad throughout the towntbip and attentively la the Society of Friends, whereof be wat a member. •He falls a hollow pine, that long bath stood On Ida's height, or Krymanthut wood,Torn from the roots.
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Wilmington Delaware Republican
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Mon, Feb 26, 1866
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