Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Darling, Henry March 8, 1811 - 
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Author: 1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

HENRY DARLING, farmer, section 6, Garfield Township, was born in Ulster Co., 
N.Y., March 8, 1811, and is 

the son of James and Margaret (Misner) Darling.  His father was a native of 
Scotland and was born July 23, 

1774, in Prestonpans, and died in Schuyler Co., N.Y., at the venerable age of 
92 years.  The mother was 

born Feb. 29, 1780, in Canada, of German ancestry, and died March 22, 1865, at 
the ripe of age of 85 

years.  They were the parents of 14 children, nine of whom are still living.  
During the war of1812, the 

family lived in Canada, the father wishing to remain neutral in the issue 
between the British Government 

and the United States.

Mr. Darling came to Newaygo in 1858 and in 1859 bought a saw-mill, which was 
burned in 1863, with a loss 

of $1,200, not being insured.  He was married Dec. 22, 1861, to Lydia J., 
daughter of Henry and Cynthia 

Upton, born at Adrian, Aug. 18, 1841.  They passed the four years following 
their marriage in Schuyler 

Co., N.Y., where their two children, Henry Tavern and Duane, were born, the 
eldest July 11, 1863, the 

younger, Sept. 22, 1865.  In the spring of 1864, Mr. Darling returned to 
Newaygo County and bought 320 

acres of land in (then) Dayton Township.  The place is known as the Fremont 
Lake Farm, and is in what is 

now Sheridan Township.  In the same year he built a saw-mill, which was burned 
in 1870, involving a loss 

of $5,000.  In December, 1870, Mr. Darling went to Kansas and entered a claim 
of 160 acres of land.  He 

remained there until the spring of 1871, when he returned to Newaygo County 
and purchased the farm of 

which he is the present proprietor.  It contains 50 acres, with one half under 
improvement.  The owner has 

made additional clearings, built a substantial residence, set out an orchard 
and put the place in a fine 

state of cultivation.  He has officiated four years as Justice of the Peace 
and i several other positions 

of trust.

Mr. Darling is a descendant, on both sides of his parentage, of ancestors 
remarkable for tenacity of life. 

 His maternal grandfather lived to be 104 years old.  Every tooth was 
perfectly sound and bodily faculties 

comparatively unimpaired at the time of his death.

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