Mr. Darling removed to Hoboken, Hudson County, N. J., in 1875 and lived there nine years. In 1884 he moved to the Hudson City section of Jersey City and engaged in real estate business and building operations. He was the first in his section of Jersey City to inaugurate the system of building a detached house on a lot and selling the whole property on easy terms, thus enabling working people of moderate means to get possession of their homes and pay for them in the easiest possible manner. In this line of operation Mr. Darling has been eminently successful, and a to-day are enjoying homes which he has provided for them on this basis. Among the buildings which he has erected up to the present time are one hundred and thirty-five houses by actual count in Hudson County, nearly all of which he has sold to families now occupying them. Most of these homes have been built within the past six years, thus bringing into the county property to the value of over 300,000.00, and improving lands which would still be unproductive and of small value as a taxable asset. Numerous builders and contractors have followed his example of building detached houses for hones for working people and have been very successful, yet the inception and inauguration of the plan is due wholly to him, and in this particular line he is the acknowledged leader. Blocks of houses all over the Hudson City and Bergen sections of Jersey City, on Weekawken Heights, and in West Hoboken attest his design of working people's homes. Mr. Darling makes a specialty of one and two family houses, and he justly claims that he never built a house but what he could sell easily.

As a business man and citizen Mr. Darling has achieved an excellent reputation. He has been successful in all his efforts, for in their inception and execution he has displayed the highest abilities, untiring industry, and superior judgment. He was at one time a member of the Republican County Committee of Hudson County and also served a five years' term as Justice of the Peace, but with these exceptions has never held public office. Though a public spirited citizen, deeply interested in the welfare of the community, and thoroughly identified with its interests, he has never taken a very active part in politics, his extensive business interests demanding and receiving his entire attention. He is a member of Hoboken Lodge, F. and A. M., of Unique Lodge, A. O. U. W., and of the Berkley Club. Both he and his family were prominent in the Ascension Protestant Episcopal Church, New York Avenue and South Street, Jersey City, for many years; they now attend St. John's Church on Summit Avenue, Jersey City.