The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-01-21
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Colonel Darling Married.

st. Peter Herald: Another war
romance that will be of interest 10
st. Peter people generally culminat
ed in Minneapolis recently, when
Miss G. w. Pearson, returned mis-
sionary from China, became the
H. Darling, formerly a member OF
the staff at the st Peter state hos
pital and more recently an officer in
the Medical Corps, United States
army. Details of the wedding are
lacking, but the Herald understands
it was a quiet affair. The license
to wed was procured in HenneDin
county on December 81, and friend
informs this paper that Colonel Oar
ling Joined the ranks of the Bene
diets few days later.
ing and an adventurous career since
the placid days when he was assist
ant superintendent of the state hos
pital in this city. He served in that
capacity under DIR. W. H. Tomlinson,
and rendered his resignation that he
might take a postgraduate course in
surgery in Berlin and Vienna. Read
ers of the Herald may remember that
the former ST. Paul man engaged
in a spectacular encounter with an
Austrian nobleman while pursuing
Among the students in the Am.
erican colony in Vienna was a young
woman from Boston, and one eve
ing scion of the Austrian nobility
offered her a studied affront. The
insult was resented by DR.. Darling,
whereupon the American received q
challenge to fight a duel. 1t was
promptly accepted, and the duel with
seconds and pistols and all the trim
mings, took place according to schcd-
ule. At the first exchange the Ameri
can doctor shot a neat round hole
in his adversary's person, the wound
causing the latter no serious dis
comfort but completely satisfying his
honor.
After this affair DR.. Darling re-
turned to the United States, but
about a year after the opening of the
great war he dropped his practice
and accepted a commission in the
medical corps of the British army.
Inside of few months he was on
duty in the front lines in Flanders,
hard fighting along the Somme, he
himself being wounded and gassed in
action.
When the United States went into
the war he was captain in the
English service. He at once request
ed a transfer to the American army
this request being granted by the
English government and the tender
of his services being accepted by our
own. On his return to his native
land he was commissioned lieuten-
ant colonel.
Colonel Darling naturally expected
that he would be sent back to Eur
ope, but instead he was assigned to
duty in the Philippines, being put in
command of the base hospital 1T
Manila, where he remained until the
close of the war. At the time, it is
understood, he resented the fact that
he was not ordered to accompany the
American Expeditionary Forces to
France, but it would now appear that
Fate decreed his Philippine service
While in the Far East he obtained
leave and travelled in China, where
he met Miss Pearson, then engaged
in Missionary work in that country.
Friends of Colonel Darling are hint
ing that Mrs. Darling but exchanged
foreign missionary for home mission
airy work.
Colonel and Mrs. Darling will re-
size in Minneapolis, where the 1or-
mer has an office at COS Masonic
Temple