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'''William Darlington''' (], ] - ], ]) was a physician, botanist and a member of the ] from ]. '''William Darlington''' (], ] - ], ]) was a member of the ] from ].


William Darlington, the cousin of ] and ] and second cousin of ], was born in ] to ] parents. He attended Friends School at Birmingham and spent his youth on a farm. He became a ] at an early age, began the study of medicine at eighteen, and graduated from the medical department of the ] at ] in 1804. He studied languages and botany for two years and went to the ] as ship’s surgeon in 1806 resulting in him being disowned by the ] for joining a military organization. A sketch of his voyage, under the title of "Letters from ]," was published in the ''Analectic Magazine''. He returned to West Chester in 1807 and was a practicing physician there for a number of years and wrote in defense of ] ]'s policies. He raised a company of volunteers at the beginning of the ] and was major of a volunteer regiment. William Darlington (cousin of ] and ], second cousin of ]) was born in ]. He attended Friends School at Birmingham and spent his youth on a farm. He became a ] at an early age, studied medicine, and graduated from the medical department of the ] at ] in 1804. He went to the ] as ship’s surgeon in 1806. He returned to West Chester in 1807 and was a practicing physician there for a number of years. He raised a company of volunteers at the beginning of the ] and was major of a volunteer regiment.


Darlington was elected as a ] to the ] Congress. He was again elected to the ] and ] Congresses. He was appointed canal commissioner in 1825, and served as president of the West Chester Railroad. He founded an ] and a society of ], of which he became the president, in West Chester in 1826. In 1813 he began a descriptive catalogue of plants growing around West Chester, with the title "Florula Cestrica" (1826), afterward enlarged as the "Flora Cestrica" (1837; new ed., 1853), containing a complete description and classification of every plant known in ]. He published several works on botany and natural history and served as director and president of the National Bank of Chester County from 1830 to 1863. In 1843 he edited the correspondence of his friend, Dr. William Baldwin, with a memoir, entitling the work "Reliquiae Baldwiniana." In 1853 the name of '']'' was given, in his honor, to a new and remarkable variety of pitcher plant found in California, in addition to which a number of rare plants were named in his honor by naturalists in Switzerland and America. The degree of ] was conferred on him by ] in 1848, and in 1855 that of ], by ]. He was a member of forty learned societies in America and Europe. Darlington was elected as a Republican to the ] Congress. He was again elected to the ] and ] Congresses. He was appointed canal commissioner in 1825, and served as president of the West Chester Railroad. He established a ] society in West Chester in 1826 and published several works on botany and natural history. He served as director and president of the National Bank of Chester County from 1830 to 1863. He died in West Chester in 1863, and was interred in Oakland Cemetery.

He died in West Chester in 1863, and was interred in Oakland Cemetery.


==Bibliography== ==Bibliography==

*Lansing, Dorothy I. ''That Magnificent Cestrian: Dr. William Darlington, 1782-1863, Being a Short Introductory Biography.'' ]: Serpentine Press, 1985. Lansing, Dorothy I. ''That Magnificent Cestrian: Dr. William Darlington, 1782-1863, Being a Short Introductory Biography.'' ]: Serpentine Press, 1985.
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William Darlington (April 28, 1782 - April 23, 1863) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

William Darlington (cousin of Edward Darlington and Isaac Darlington, second cousin of Smedley Darlington) was born in Birmingham, Pennsylvania. He attended Friends School at Birmingham and spent his youth on a farm. He became a botanist at an early age, studied medicine, and graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1804. He went to the East Indies as ship’s surgeon in 1806. He returned to West Chester in 1807 and was a practicing physician there for a number of years. He raised a company of volunteers at the beginning of the War of 1812 and was major of a volunteer regiment.

Darlington was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress. He was again elected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses. He was appointed canal commissioner in 1825, and served as president of the West Chester Railroad. He established a natural history society in West Chester in 1826 and published several works on botany and natural history. He served as director and president of the National Bank of Chester County from 1830 to 1863. He died in West Chester in 1863, and was interred in Oakland Cemetery.

Bibliography

Lansing, Dorothy I. That Magnificent Cestrian: Dr. William Darlington, 1782-1863, Being a Short Introductory Biography. Paoli, Pennsylvania: Serpentine Press, 1985.

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Preceded bySamuel Henderson
Roger Davis 		Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district
1815-1817

alongside: John Hahn

Succeeded byIsaac Darlington
Levi Pawling
Preceded byIsaac Darlington
Levi Pawling 		Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district
1819-1823

alongside: Samuel Gross

Succeeded byJoseph Hemphill
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