Series 2 Darlington Family Papers: Includes Palmer, Gause, Shortlidge

Jared Darlington (1864-1929) was the son of Edward (1832-1876) and Mary (Palmer) (1835-1909) Darlington. His family settled in Middletown Township, Delaware County, in the mid 1700s and were dairy farmers. The family married into other Delaware and Chester County Quaker families includes Brinton, Dutton, and Sharpless.

Edward was educated at Jonathan Gause’s Academy in Chester County and subsequently Philips Academy. In 1856 he married Mary F. Palmer, the daughter of Charles and Deborah (Pittman) Palmer. They had nine children: Frances (1857-1871); Deborah (1848), Charles (1860-1903) married Florence Bailey and operated a creamery business in Chadds Ford, Pa.; Mary (1862-1894), a teacher before her marriage to George Byers; Jared (1864-1929) married Marian Shortlidge; Anna S (1866-) attended Swarthmore College and married T. Walter Styer who operated a nursery in Chadds Ford; Beulah (1870-) a teacher before her marriage to Maurice Pratt; Edward (1871-) married Philena Armant, and Lewis (1875).

Jared Darlington was educated in Friends Central School, Philadelphia, and became a dairyman. He married Marian Shortlidge in 1891 at the Maplewood Institute, Concordville, near West Chester, Pa. Marian was the daughter of Joseph B. Shortlidge (1832-1911) and Caroline B. Gause Shortlidge (1841-1874). Joseph Shortlidge founded the Maplewood Institute in 1863. Carrie Gause attended University Female Institute in Lewisburg, Pa., and her family were members of the Society of Friends. Her brother, J[onathan] Chauncey Shortlidge, succeeded his father as principal of the School. J. Chauncey Shortlidge was in the Swarthmore College Class of 1896. Caroline (Carrie’s) father, Jonathan Gause, was principal of a well-respected Academy.

Jared and Mary F. Darlington had three children: Edna, Charles J., and Caroline Shortlidge Darlington who lived in NYC. In 1922, Jared Darlington sold his dairy and creamery to Wawa Dairy Farm. He briefly went into mushroom farming and then he and his wife moved to Woodstown, NJ, to live with his son.