American Biographical Library The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Volume 3 C Cutting, John Tyler page 94 Cutting, Hiram Adolphus, scientist, was born at Concord, Vt., Dec. 23, 1832; son of Stephen C. and Eliza (Darling) Cutting. His paternal grandfather was one of the first settlers of Concord, Vt., and on his mother's side he descended from Gen. James Reed of the Revolutionary army, and in the twenty-third degree, from Henry II., King of England. He taught school, artended St. Johnsbury academy, engaged in trade, afterward studied medicine and had extensive practice, but devoted his attention chiefly to scientific subjects. He was curator of the Vermont state natural history collections in 1870, and the same year was appointed state geologist. He was secretary of the board of agriculture, 1880-86, chairman of the fish commission, 1880-85, special examining surgeon for the U.S. pension office, 1873-88; vice-president of the United States forestry congress, and forest commissioner for Vermont; lecturer on science at Norwich university; meteorological observer for the United States signal service, and Vermont statistical agent for the department of agriculture. He rounded in Lunenburg, the Cutting library of seventeen thousand volumes and the Cutting museum of natural history of twenty-eight thousand specimens. He was a member of seventy-nine scientific and medical societies in America and Europe. He received from Norwich university the honorary degrees of A.M. in 1868, and Ph.D. in 1869, and from Dartmouth that of M.D. in 1870. He made a large collection of birds and minerals for the state of Vermont, published three reports on agriculture, three on fisheries, eight on natural history, and three volumes of lectures upon scientific subjects. He died in Lunenburg, Vt., April 18, 1892. View full context American Biographical Library The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Volume 3 D Darling, Henry page 132 Darling, Charles William, soldier, was born in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 11, 1830; son of the Rev. Charles Chauncey and Adeline E. (Dana) Darling; grandson of Dr. Samuel and Clarinda (Ely) Darling; and great-grandson of Judge Thomas and Abigail (Noyes) Darling. He was educated with a private tutor and at the University of the city of New York. Early in life he connected himself with the National guard of New York and was appointed an aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov. Edwin D. Morgan. During the draft riots in New York on July 13, 14 and 15, 1863, he rendered gallant and efficient service and received the formal thanks of Mayor George Opdyke, Maj.-Gen. John E. Wool, commanding the United States troops at New York, and Maj.-Gen. Charles W. Sandford, commanding the 1st division N.G.S.N.Y. He was afterward appointed a volunteer aide-de-camp on the staff of Maj.-Gen. Charles W. Sandford, retaining his rank of colonel. In 1864 he was appointed [p.132] additional volunteer aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, then in command of the Army of the James, and was assigned to special duty at his temporary headquarters in New York. In 1865, upon the inauguration of Reuben E. Fenton as governor of New York, he was appointed assistant paymaster-general with headquarters in New York city, and in 1866 he was appointed on the governor's staff as commissary-general of subsistence. On the election of Reuben E. Fenton as governor for a second term, General Darling was appointed on his staff as military engineer-in-chief, with the rank of brigadier-genera1. In 1868 he visited Europe for travel and study, and made several subsequent trips for the same purpose. He was elected corresponding secretary of the Oneida historical society, Utica, N.Y.; honorary secretary, at Utica, of the Egypt exploration fund, London, England; honorary fellow of the Society of science, letters and art, London, England; and a corresponding member of many historical and scientific associations in the United States and Canada. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Hamilton college in 1892. He was married, Dec. 21, 1857, to Angeline E., daughter of Jacob A. Robertson of New York, and granddaughter of Archibald Robertson, the Scotch artist, who painted from life the celebrated miniatures of George and Martha Washington. American Biographical Library The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Volume 3 D Darling, Timothy Grenville page 132 Darling, Henry, educator, was born in Reading, Pa., Dec. 27, 1823; son of the Hon. William and Margaretta Vaughan (Smith) Darling. He was graduated at Amherst in 1842; studied theology at Union theological seminary, 1842-43; at Auburn theological seminary, 1843-45; was ordained by the presbytery of Columbia Dec. 30, 1847; was pastor at Hudson, N.Y., 1846-53; at Clinton street church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1853-61; was an invalid in Philadelphia, 1861-64; had charge of the 4th Presbyterian church in Albany, N.Y., 1864-81; and was president of Hamilton college, Clinton, N.Y., 1881-91. He was permanent clerk of the Presbyterian general assembly, 1854-63, and moderator of the General assembly, 1881. He received from Amherst the degree of M.A. in 1852; from Union that of D.D. in 1860, and from both Hamilton and Lafayette that of LL.D. in 1881. His published works include: The Closer Walk (1862); Slavery and the War (1863); Difficulties of Revelation (1864); Conformity to the World (1873); Doing Nothing — but Receiving (1875); and Preaching and Modern Skepticism (1881). See memorial of his life and work published byson, Richard W. Darling. He died at Hamilton college, Clinton, N.Y., April 20, 1891. zzz American Biographical Library The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Volume 3 D Darlington, Edward page 132 Darling, Timothy Grenville, educator, was born in Nassua, N.P., Bahamas, Oct. 5, 1842. He prepared for college at Williston seminary, Mass., and was graduated at Williams college in 1864. He studied at Princeton theological seminary, 1866-68, and was graduated at Union theological seminary in 1869. He was assistant minister at the First Presbyterian church in Baltimore, 1870-73, and on June 18, 1873, was ordained by the presbytery of Albany, N.Y. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Schenectady, N.Y., 1873-87; acting professor of mental philosophy and Hebrew in Union college, 1879-80; acting professor of moral science, 1885; and lecturer on Christian evidences, 1886. In 1887 he was chosen professor of sacred rhetoric and pastoral theology in the Auburn theological seminary, and in 1890 was transferred to the chair of Christian theology. American Biographical Library The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Volume 3 Daughters of America; or Women of the Century Chapter V: Philanthropic Women Ida Lewis page 136 England is proud of her Grace Darling, and her name and prowess in rescuing the drowning is familiar to all who cherish deeds of heroic philanthropy; but England is rivalled by America when Kate Moore and Ida Lewis are mentioned. KATE MOORE was the daughter of a light-house keeper, and her home was Fairweather Island, on the coast of Connecticut. In 1851 Mr. Clement wrote of her, "She has so thoroughly cultivated the sense of hearing, that she can distinguish amid the howling storm the shrieks of the drowning mariners, and thus direct a boat, which she has learned to manage most dexterously, in the darkest night, to the spot where a fellow-mortal is perishing. Though well educated and refined, she possesses none of the affected delicacy which characterizes too many town-bred misses; but, adapting herself to the peculiar exigencies of her [p.136] father's humble yet honorable calling, she is ever ready to lend a helping hand, and shrinks from no danger, if duty points that way. In the gloom and terror of the stormy night, amid perils at all hours of the day and all seasons of the year, she has launched her bark on the threatening waves, and has assisted her aged and feeble father in saving the lives of twenty-one persons during the last fifteen years." American Biographical Library The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Volume 3 Daughters of America; or Women of the Century Chapter V: Philanthropic Women Ida Lewis page 137 IDA LEWIS, who has been termed "the Grace Darling of America," is a Newport heroine. Col. Brewerton, the artist, has made an interesting word-picture of this noble young woman and her deeds of heroism. She is the daughter of Capt. Hosea Lewis of Hingham, Mass., and was named after her mother, Idawalley Zorada Willey, who was a daughter of a Block Island physician, Dr. Aaron C. Willey. Ida was born on Feb. 25, 1842, and was fifteen when her parents moved to Lime Rock Lighthouse. Until that time she had attended the public schools of Newport. Her father becoming paralytic, she was obliged to use the oars, and bring all the supplies to the lighthouse, and row her brothers and sister to and from school. Hence she became an expert rower, and was as fearless on the ocean as others on the land. In the fall of 1858 she first gratified her philanthropic nature, and won a place among the brave, by rescuing four young men from drowning, when their pleasure-boat had been upset through recklessness. She was then but sixteen. Eight years after, when Ida had barely reached the age of Grace Darling, she rescued a drowning soldier from the neighboring fort. In 1867 she rescued three Irishmen who were out in a boat after a sheep which was drifting out to sea. Their skill and courage failed them, and amid the white-capped billows they were powerless to reach the shore; and having taken the men off their sinking boat, and safely landed them, she returned, and rescued also the sheep. American Biographical Library The Biographical Cyclopædia of American Women Volume II American Biographical Notes D The Chicago Historical Society page 99 DARLING, SIR CHARLES H., late governor of British Columbia; d. in London, Jan. 26, 1870; a. 61. American Biographical Library The Biographical Cyclopædia of American Women Volume II Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution Alphabetical List of Officers of the Continental Army D Fifteenth Virginia page 185 Darling, Andrew (Va). 2d Lieutenant 8th Virginia, 4th March, 1776, to —.