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DARKE, William, soldier, b. in Philadelphia county. Pa., in 1786 ; d. in Jefferson county, Va., 26 Nov., 1801. When he was four years old his par- ents removed to Virginia. At tlie age of nineteen he joined the army, and was with Braddock at his defeat in 1755. At the beginning of the Revolu- tionary war he was made a captain, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Germantown. Afterward he was colonel commanding the Hampshire and Berkeley regiments at the capture of Cornwallis. He was often a member of the Virginia legisla- ture, and, in the convention of 1788, voted for the Federal constitution. In 1791 he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel in a regiment of " levies," and commanded the left wing of St. Clair's army at its defeat by the Miami Indians on 4 Nov., 1791. He made two gallant and successful charges with the bayonet in this fight, in the second of which his youngest son, Capt. Joseph Darke, was killed and himself wounded, narrowly escaping death. He was afterward major-general of Virginia militia.

DARLEY, John, actor, b. in England in 1765; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1853. He made his first appearance on the American stage in Philadelphia in 1794, and afterward became a lieutenant of ma- rines in the U. S. navy, but returned to the stage, and appeared at the Park theatre, New Yorlc, 20 July, 1801. He had a manly, well-proportioned person, and a handsome face, and, although n<jt warmly attached to his profession, possessed great merit as a singer, and played Frenchmen and walking gentlemen well. — His son, Felix Octa- yius Carr, artist, b. in Philadelphia, 23 June. 1822 ; d. in Claymont, Del., 27 March. 1888. He was placed in a mercantile house in 1836, but spent his leisure in drawing. Some of his sketches at- tracted attention, and he received from the pub- lisher of the " Saturday Museum " a handsome sum for a few designs, which encouraged him to devote him- self to art. For several years he was employed by large publishing- houses in Phila- delphia, during which he pro- duced the se- ries of drawings for the " Libra- ry ot Humor- ous A merican

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became very popular in the southern and western states. He removed in 1848 to New York, where he occupied himself in illustrat- ing Irving's humorous writings. In 1856 he pub- lished a series of designs in outline from Sylvester Judd's novel of " Margaret," which met with such favor that he was commissioned by the American art union to illustrate in similar style " Rip Van Winkle " and " Sleepy Hollow." His elaborate out- line drawings of these subjects led to his recog- nition, both at home and abroad, as a worthy suc- cessor of Retzsch and Flaxman. He declined an advantageous offer to settle in London, and applied himself assiduously to his art. In addition to il- lustrating James Fenimore Cooper's works, for which he furnished more than 500 designs, he was also engaged in the preparation of vignettes for bank-notes. He also illustrated Dickens's works and Simms's novels, and executed the " Massacre at Wyoming," and various Revolutionary pieces. Mr. DarJey was elected a member of the Academy of design in 1852, became a member of the Artists' fund society, and was one of the early members of the American society of painters in water-colors. In 1859 appeared his drawing of the wedding pro- cession in Longfellow's " Courtship of Miles Stan- dish." After that time he executed many large works, among which were four ordered by Prince Napoleon, viz. : " Emigrants attacked by Indians on the Prairie," " The Village Blacksmith," " The Unwilling Laborer," and " The Repose." During the civil war he delineated many dramatic and characteristic scenes, including one representing " Dahlgren's Charge at Fredericksburg," and an- other representing " Sherman's March to the Sea." Some of the most elaborate figures and scenes on the government bonds and legal-tender notes of the national banks were designed by him. Toward the close of the war he visited Europe, added many scores of sketches to his portfolio, studied models in Rome, and made a large number of drawings, many of which appeared in periodicals. On his return to tiie United States he published " Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil " (New York, 1868), for which he furnished both letter-press and illustrations. His "Cavalry Charge at Fredericksburg, Va.," was at the Paris exposition of 1867. His " Street Scene in Rome," in water-color, was at the Centennial exliibition of 1876. In 1875 he engaged in pre- paring 500 drawings to illustrate a " History of the United States " by B. J. Lossing. His later work consists of "Outlines to the 'Scarlet Letter '"of Hawthorne (1879), and twelve outline illustrations to the "Evangeline" of Longfellow, issued, not in lithograph print as heretofore, but in j)hototypes taken from the originals (1883), and " Illustrations to Shakespeare's Plays " (1886).

DARLING, Henry, clergyman. b. in Reading, Pa., 27 Dec, 1823; d! in Clinton. X. Y., 20 April, 1891. He studied theology in Union seminarv. New York, in 1842-'3, at Auburn in 1843-'5, and was ordained by the presbytery of Columbia, 30 Dec, 1847. He first settled in Vernon, N. Y., then became pastor in Hudson in 1847-'53, pastor of the Clinton street church, Philadelphia, in 1852-'62, and permanent clerk of the Presbyterian general assembly in 1854-"63. He was an invalid in 18(il-'3, after which he removed to Albany, and became pastor of the 4th Presbyterian church, where he remained until 1881. In that year he was elected president of Hamilton college. He presided as moderator to the general assembly in 1881. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him in 1860 by Union, and the degree of LL. D. by both Hamil- ton and Lafayette in 1881. In addition to many pamphlets and articles m periodicals, he published " The Closer Walk " (Philadelphia, 1862), " Slavery and the War " (1863), " Conformity to the World " (1873), " Not Doing, but Receiving " (Albany, 1875).

DARLING, Noyes, agriculturist, b. in Wood- bridge, Conn., in 1782 ; d. in New Plaven, 17 Sept., 1846. He was graduated at Yale in 1801, and was a tutor there in 1804-'8, after which he engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York city. He was especially interested in horticulture, and also in investigating the habits of insects injurious to vegetation, and wrote many valuable papers on the subject. The latter years of his life were passed in New Haven, of which city he was at one time mayor. He had also served for a long time as county surveyor, and was at the time of his death a judge of the county court.