California State Officials Biographies 1911 NEWELL DYKE DARLINGTON Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm HIGHWAY COMMISSION ADVISORY BOARD NEWELL DYKE DARLINGTON (Republican) was born January 4, 1874, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Attended school at West Chester, Pennsylvania, and afterward studied civil engineering at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. Moved to Los Angeles in 1894, where he has practiced his profession up to the present time. Was appointed a member of the Board of Public Utilities of the city of Los Angeles in 1911 by Mayor Alexander, which position he resigned in June of the same year. Appointed member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Engineering, August 1, 1911. Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911 Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913