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Notes for William McCullough DARLINGTON
William M. Darlington was a successful lawyer and one of the foremost experts in the colonial history of western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Valley. Mary shared her husband’s passion for history, and was very proud of her family’s ancestry, which she traced back to Irish nobility through her grandfather, James O’Hara. Through her father, Mary inherited Guyasuta: James O’Hara’s estate near present-day Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania.
William and Mary raised three children at Guyasuta, O’Hara, Mary, and Edith. A fourth child, Hillborn, died in childhood. For more detailed biographies of each family member, see the scope and content note provided for each individual’s papers. William was the primary collector of his family’s extensive library of books and manuscripts. After William’s death in 1889, his widow and children maintained and added to his collection. In 1918 and 1925, William’s daughters Edith and Mary donated the family library and manuscript collection to the University of Pittsburgh. These materials include original letters by George Washington, Colonel Henry Bouquet, General Anthony Wayne, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, General Cornwallis, General James Wilkinson, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson and Daniel Webster. William M. Darlington also obtained and preserved John James Audubon’s complete set of Birds of America.
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