Edwin Woodbridge Darling (1887 - 1923)

Born 7 Sep 1887 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth Bradbury (Merrill) Darling — married 1913 in Dorchester, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 22 Dec 1923 at age 36 in Saranac Lake, New York

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Biography

Boston Latin School Class of 1904, recipient of Franklin Medal; Dartmouth College Class of 1908, Phi Beta Kappa. Mathematics. Contracted tuberculosis / died of overwork while in the service of American Tel & Tel by whom he was employed as a statistician. He was expected to succeed his friend and fellow Dartmouth alumnus Walter Sherman Gifford in the position of Chief Statistician before he fell ill; Gifford went on to become president of the company (in 1925). A representative from AT&T summarily denied Edwin's surviving minor children his pension benefits, according to the recollection of their then-guardian, Frederic Arnold Merrill, a maternal uncle, whom I personally interviewed in 1982 in Portugal. - John W. Bates

Sources

• Personal recollection of my mother's report of her father's place of death and nickname;
• personal knowledge
• Find A Grave: Memorial #121989018 Seaside Cemetery, Blue Hill, Maine