Ancestry of
Ding Darling

Cartoonist and Founder of National Wildlife Federation

Marcellus Warner Darling

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• • Father of Ding Darling — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Timothy Darling 
  • Mother:
  • Diantha M. Groves   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Mar 1844 
  • Birth Location:
  • Leon, Cattaraugus, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Feb 1913 
  • Death Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Clara R. Woolson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Dec 1871 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mount Pleasant, Henry, Iowa 
  • Children:
  
  

  Frank W. Darling

  Jay Norwood Darling (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Civil War veteran - Union

    Sergeant, Co. K, 154th Regiment

• Sources for Marcellus Warner Darling

  • ¹ California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994, Death certificate for spouse Clara Woolson Darling.
  • ² Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Deaths Index, 1878-1922, Death record for Marcellus W Darling.
  • ³ Federal Census, NY, Cattaraugus County, 1850, Leon, Image 6 of 33.
  • ⁴ Iowa, U.S., Marriage Records, 1880-1947, Marriage record for son Jay Norwood Darling and Genevieve Pendleton.
  • ⁵ Iowa, U.S., Select Marriages Index, 1758-1996, Marriage record for Marcellus W Darling and Clara R Woolson.
  • ⁶ New York, U.S., State Census, 1865, Cattaraugus County, Leon, p. 371, Image 6 of 33.
  • ⁷ New York, U.S., Town Clerks' Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War, ca 1861-1865, Record for Marcellus Darling.
  • ⁸ The Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska), 28 APR 1916, p. 9, Obituary for spouse Mrs. C. W. Darling.
  • ⁹ Lendt, David L., Ding: The Life of Jay Norwood Darling, Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press (1989).
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Ding Darling", (accessed 07/12/2021).