Person:Rolla Darling (1)

  • HRolla Russell Darling1858 - 1941
  • WIda Winfrey1863 - 1941
m. 4 May 1881
Facts and Events
Name[1] Rolla Russell Darling
Gender Male
Birth[2][1] 11 Apr 1858 Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, United States
Marriage 4 May 1881 , Trumbull, Ohio, USAto Ida Winfrey
Death[1] 8 Jun 1941 East Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
Burial[1][3] Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States

WINF: Y


Notes on Rolla Russell Darling Founder of the Darling Machine and Tool Company, manufacturing auto parts, with his son, Cornelius Bassett Darling, and inventor of the "Darling Car" of which fifty were built and sold in 1901 by the Beardsley & Hubbs Mfg. Co. in Mansfield, Ohio Darling is also credited with being the first to use the jump spark for ignition. Rolla was also a charter member of the Windamere Masonic Lodge.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Vickie Burke. Darling Family. (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6756/Genealogy.html).
  2. WIN- 1 (Virginia Winfrey Burke).
  3. 12316 Euclid Avenue

    Canal Way, Cleveland’s historic garden cemetery, this National Register listed landscape is the burial site for assassinated President James A. Garfield and industrialist John D. Rockefeller, and features lush springtime fields of daffodils.