Andrew W. Darling

Birth Date

1816

Death Date

1899

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Carroll County, Kentucky, farmer. Scotland native. Married Eliza J. Darling. Father of William C. Darling, R. T. Darling, Kate J. Darling, and John T. Darling. Contracted construction of Lock No. 1 on the Kentucky River in Carroll County in 1836. Farmer in Carroll County in 1850 and 1860. Owned seven enslaved people in Carroll County in 1860. Distiller in Carroll County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carroll County, District 2, p. 202 B; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carroll County, District No. 2, p. 71; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Carroll County, District No. 2, p. 6; Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 15, Kentucky, Collection District No. 4, Division No. 1, 1863, (Accessed via ancestry.com); Find a Grave, "Andrew W Darling (1816-1899)," Memorial #31621395, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31621395 (accessed November 15, 2015); Diane Perrine Coon, "Prestonville" in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 735.

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