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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 19 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 144 (search)
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Sketch of the principal maritime expeditions. (search)
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., chapter 48 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 14 (search)
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 1.4, chapter 1.6 (search)
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.23 (search)
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10 : trade. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Darlington , William , -1863 (search)
Darlington, William, -1863
Scientist; born of Quaker parents in Birmingham, Pa., April 28, 1782; studied medicine, languages, and botany, and went to Calcutta as surgeon of a ship.
Returning in 1807, he practised medicine at West Chester with success; was a Madisonian in politics, and when the war broke out in 1812 he assisted in raising a corps for the service in his neighborhood.
He was chosen major of a volunteer regiment, but did not see any active service.
He was a member of Congress from 1815 to 1817 and from 1819 to 1823.
In his town he founded an academy, an athenaeum, and a society of natural history.
Dr. Darlington was an eminent botanist, and a new and remarkable variety of the pitcher plant, found in California in 1853, was named, in his honor, Darlingtonica California.
He wrote and published works on botany, medicine, biography, and his.. tory.
Dr. Darlington was a member of about forty learned societies in America and Europe.
He died in West Chester, Pa., Apr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), East India Company , the. (search)