Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-12
Saturday Morning, Feb. 12. 1881.
JOHN B. HARRINGTON,

s& JOHN B. HARRINGTON.
 John 5. Darlington, who has gone in Band out among the people of New Haven for
 more than half century, has ceased from fhis labors. A week ago last Saturday even Hing he fell and received severe wound uponi Sthe back of his head. This injury did not < &howeyer, confine him to the house, and was {not regarded serious. Last Saturday, { Awhile in the office of the JOURNAL AND CouR- HER, he was taken with chill He went to ! 5$his home, and Monday night erysipelas madet Fits appearance, attacking his head. It was ati Efrst believed that with the aid of good con &stitution and the best medical help he would Overcome the disease, but his power of re- &sistance was inadequate and he died yester1 E
 day forenoon.
 M MT. Darlington was born in Bethany, inS this State, Noy.:6. 1911, and was consequent < My in his seventieth year at the time of his \ death. His father was filling Darlington, 3then very wealthy farmer. He had three} &brothers, rs,-Edwin, who became well knowns physician of Harrington in this State, and was the father of Dr. Charles Darlington, swho is now practising his profession in Farm &ington Henry, who took the old homesteadH Fin Bethany and remained on the farm andA
 William, the only brother now living, who isl |ssa merchant in Charleston, South Carolina ; 23also half brother, Nehemiah, who went tos &the island of St. Thomas, in the West Indies s 3Iand became merchant. He died somes @years ago. Reverses came to the family, |and when the subject of this sketch wast $eight years old he started out to discoverb 3what the great world had in store for him. Nile was bright, almost precocious boy, mn &commonly well advanced in his studies (heE would have been ready to enter college in his #twelfth year had he not been forced to relin- &quish study and he was ambitious and hope-g Hful. He engaged in various occupations un- sItil 1924, when his after career was in greatE X measure determined by his being appren- 2ticed to Thomas G. Woodward of New Ha- X ven to learn the. art of printing. In Mr. E #Woodwards office he laid the foundation off &his success as an editor and publisher. AsE 3he was best known to the public through hisK &long and prominent connection with thss Spress of New Haven we will touch upon thiss #part of his life first T While with MT. Woodward he improved his | in 8 manner that should serveb sas spur to young men who read this. HeH Hbecame the best printer in the office, he spents 7much of his spare time in study, and wrotes Particles for the Weakzy Hera1d, then pub B Slished by Mir. Woodward After his timej $was out, in 1882, he went to what is nowa % Macon, Georgia, and took charge of a news #paper office there. He remained South two1 j&years and added there to his experience and $ capital In 1884 he returned to New Haven, #and began, with Mr. Woodward, the publica- -S tion of 1Ae Duly Herazd, (which was thess |&frst daily paper in the State). In 1915 MT.
 Carrington became the sole publisherI < #of the Herald, and soon after boughtI
 the subscription list of the NeD Ra0e1aH $ Journal, 8 paper started by Byingtons \ & Adams. Soon after the Journal went outI T of the field the Neao Hagess Courier, started inI #ls42 by Winthrop Atwell, was united with z&the Herald, MT. CarrIngton's paper, and forl Esa time the Courier was printed in the morn Hing and the HeraZd in the evening. In 1849j f$another change was made, and Darlington &l |SHotchkiss commenced printing the JoursaG2I sSSand Courier, which was printed at first, to- \
 
 S8by man power in g building on ChapelI Sstreet. Afterwards the press was run by s#steam power, and it was, we believe, theI
 First printing press run by steam in thsI Estate. In 1864 Mr. Hotchkiss soldi 4his interest in the paper to several Newi EzHaven gentlemen, but in 1875 MT. CarringsonI 5became the sole owner of the paper. SoonI Safter he took his two sons, MT. Edward T. 4Carrington and John B. Darlington, jr., intol 4 partnership with him. E As newspaper publisher Mr. CarringtonI 5&has been unusually successful result which E$he has achieved by the greatest diligence and| ESthe exercise of sound judgment. As edi- #tor he has always been conservative, andS E&has done great work during his long careerI flor good politics. the public interest, sound
 morals and respectable journalism. The prin #ciples which have guided his work as anl 5editor have been to make a soundI sand clean paper and to do no man!
 wrong in it's columns. As writer! &he was graceful and forcible. He excelledE
 particularly in descriptive writing, his let Il #ters during the time he WAS in Europe (1S71- #72) and his later letters from the West Indies'
 land various places in our own country bearI E witness Most of these are models of what such!
 letters should be, and are remembered with
 pleasure by many who read them, and learned
 from them what could be seen in the placesI
 described by man with his eyes open. MT.
 Harrington has been less of politician thanI 4m many editors are and has not served the par #sties whose principles he has advocated for thei S3sake of office. He was consistent Whig, aI
 member of the American party during its # short existence, and has 1abored to advance
 the interests of the Republican party since it's sfoundation. During his life he has, we be- #ieve, held but one public office, namely that #3of State Printer, to which he was elected by
 the American party.
 Fl Before leaving thls branch of the subject
 we must not omit to mention that MT. Car
 rington was publisher of the Nep Eag1anaeaI
 magazine in Is49 and '50, Drs. Woolsey and
 Bacon bein g it's editors at that time.
 H In addition to his work as publisher and
 editor, Mir. Darlington has been intimately and extensively connected with the business
 interests of New Haven. About 1s4s he was one of the first to enter into the manufacture
 of malleable iron in this city, business
 which has since grown to large proportions,
 He was associated in this with Henry Bushnell and Isaac N. Pryor. During the
 war he was connected with the Bigelow
 Manufacturing Company. In 1860 he, with
 N. D. Sperry and E. s. Rowland, started the
 Flair Haven and Westyille horse railroad,
 which was the first horse railroad in the State
 of Connecticut. They met the fercest oppo-
 sition, and it was even predicted that moss I would grow on the roofs of the houses in the
 streets through which the railroad passed.
 Hut they carried the enterprise through, and the moss has not yet made it's appearance. In
 51sG2 he was elected a director in the New Ha-
 ven County Bank, which office he held , lat the time of his death. He was also a
 director and large stockholder in the
 Hair Haven and Westville Horse Railroad 4 Company, the Gas and Water companies, the Grlley Company, the Mansfield Elastic Frog ,4Z(yoYar,apv and tbe PSrUnG.7x,7a Copoyarv and