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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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DARLING, Mason Cook, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Amherst, Hampshire County, Mass., May 18, 1801; attended the public schools; taught school in the State of New York; studied medicine; was graduated from the Berkshire Medical College in 1824 and practiced medicine for thirteen years; moved to Wisconsin in 1837 and was one of the original settlers at Fond du Lac; member of the Territorial legislative assembly 1840-1846; member of the Territorial council in 1847 and 1848; upon the admission of Wisconsin as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress and served from June 9, 1848, to March 3, 1849; was not a candidate for renomination in 1848; was elected the first mayor of Fond du Lac in 1852; resumed the practice of medicine and was a dealer in real estate at Fond du Lac until 1864, when he moved to Chicago; died in Chicago, Ill., March 12, 1866; interment in Rienzi Cemetery, Fond du Lac, Wis.
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DARLING, William Augustus, a Representative from New York; born in Newark, N.J., December 27, 1817; attended the public schools; moved to New York City, where he was employed as a clerk and afterwards engaged in the wholesale grocery business; director of the Mercantile Library Association; served eleven years as a private and officer in the New York National Guard; deputy receiver of taxes for the city of New York 1847-1854; served as president of the Third Avenue Railroad 1854-1865; presidential elector on the Republican ticket of Lincoln and Hamlin in 1860; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of New York City in 1866; served as collector of internal revenue for the ninth district of New York from April 26, 1869, to April 17, 1871, and as appraiser from April 18, 1871, to April 1, 1876; engaged in banking and served as president of the Murray Hill Bank; died in New York City May 26, 1895; interment in Trinity Cemetery.
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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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