. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . e American residentsfrom the North to explain to the people of Englandthe issues at stake in the great civil conflict thentranspiring in the United States. Returning to his native country he resumed his profession of 1867 and 1868 he was superintendent of schools inthe district of Maryland and Delaware under theUnited States government. During the incumbencyof Gen. Harrison Allen as auditor-general of Penn-sylvania, 1872-75, he held a clerkship in the corpora-tion
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . e American residentsfrom the North to explain to the people of Englandthe issues at stake in the great civil conflict thentranspiring in the United States. Returning to his native country he resumed his profession of 1867 and 1868 he was superintendent of schools inthe district of Maryland and Delaware under theUnited States government. During the incumbencyof Gen. Harrison Allen as auditor-general of Penn-sylvania, 1872-75, he held a clerkship in the corpora-tion department of that office. In 1868, Mr. Day wasordained an elder in the African Methodist EpiscopalZion connection, and in 1875 and 1S78 was secretaryof the General Conference of that body. He was thefirst person of color elected to the board of schoolcontrol of the city of Harrisburg, serving from 1878to 1883. JOSEPH W. DURBIN. Joseph W. Durbin, son of William Durbin andHannah Clapp, was born Nov. 12, 1834, in CountySomerset, England. His grandfather, Samuel Dur-bin, was a native of County Somerset, England, mar-. ried a Miss Green, and their children were William,James, Simon, George, Emily, and Elizabeth. Wil-liam married Hannah Clapp, of County Somerset,and their children were John, Samuel, Joseph W.,James C, and Ann. William Durbin emigrated toAmerica with his family when in his fiftieth year,and now resides in Lykens Valley. At the age oftwelve Joseph W. Durbin removed to Monmouth-shire, Wales, where he was engaged in active labor BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 5G9 until he came to the United States. He first settledin Schuylkill County, and four years later at Lykens,where he was employed in the coal-mines. Havingdiscovered an attractive field for mercantile venturesat Williamstown, then a mere hamlet, he soon afterremoved to that point and established himself inbusiness, which he successfully carries on. Mr. Dur-bin married, May 6, 1855, Louisa Hulett, daughterof Joseph Hulett,
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