Darlington Digital Library – Ancient Order of Hibernians Connections
Description
Various books that include references to the A.O.H. includes the following titles found within this collection: Our Centennial Memoir: Founding of the Missions, San Francisco de Assisi in its Hundredth Year, the Celebration of its Foundation, Historical Reminiscences of the Missions of California (1877); An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California: From the Spanish Occupancy, by the Founding of the Mission San Gabriel Archangel – September 8, 1771, to July 4, 1876 (1876); History of Reading, Pennsylvania, and the Anniversary Proceedings of the Sesqui-Centennial, June 5-12, 1898 (1898); The Life & Letters of Walter H. Page, vol. 1 (ca. 1923-1926); History of Seneca County, From the Close of the Revolutionary War to July, 1880: Embracing Many Personal Sketches of Pioneers, Anecdotes, & Faithful Descriptions of Events Pertaining to the Organization of the County and its Progress (1880); History of Greene County: Together With Historic Notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio (1881). The Darlington Digital Library was created from the first major collection of books, manuscripts, atlases, and maps donated to the University of Pittsburgh. Most of the credit for assembling the Darlington Collection goes to William M. Darlington, an attorney by profession who was born in Pittsburgh in 1815. By the 1840s, Mr. Darlington had developed a keen interest in colonial American history, especially as it related to Western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Valley. He initially acquired books on those subjects, but later he would expand his interests to topics associated with the exploration of the Trans-Mississippi, the Far West, and even world history. After Mr. Darlington died in 1889, his wife Mary, who shared her husband’s enthusiasm for American history, continued to acquire materials. Their children, O’Hara, Mary, and Edith, also added to what became a family collection.
Description adapted from the holding repository’s finding aid; it may describe the larger collection that contains the AOH/LAOH material.
The AOH does not hold these materials. Access, reproduction, and rights are governed by the holding repository under its own terms.