Darlington ( second cousin of Congressmen Edward Darlington , Isaac Darlington , and William Darlington ) was born in Pocopson Township , Pennsylvania . He attended the common schools and the Friends ’ Central School in Philadelphia . He taught at Friends ’ Central School for several years , and while teaching he made stenographic reports of sermons , lectures , and speeches for the morning dailies of Philadelphia . He established a school in Ercildoun , Pennsylvania , in 1851 which he operated for twelve years . He enlisted in the Civil War as a private and was subsequently promoted to the rank of captain in Beaumont ’s independent company of cavalry , Pennsylvania Volunteer Emergency Militia . He was discharged with the company on September 24 , 1862 . He moved to West Chester , Pennsylvania , in 1864 . He conducted an extensive banking and brokerage business . Darlington was a delegate to the Liberal Republican National Convention in 1872 and the 1896 Republican National Convention . He was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses . He was not a candidate for renomination in 1890 . He resumed the brokerage business and banking . He died in West Chester in 1899 and is interred in Oaklands Cemetery
1896 Republican National Convention
1896 Republican National Convention
Smedley Darlington