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Farmer, Silas – Farquhar, John M
Farmer, Silas
publisher, antiquarian, author, was born June 6, 1839, in Detroit, Mich. He is a publisher and antiquarian of Detroit; and the author of History of Detroit and Michigan.
Farnam, Charles Henry
archæologist, author, was born Sept. 12, 1846, in New Haven, Conn. He has been for several years assistant in archæology in the Peabody museum of Yale, and has published a History of John Whitman and his Descendants.
Farnam, Henry
philanthropist, railroad president, was born Nov. 9, 1803, in Scipio, N. Y. He removed to New Haven in 1839, and in 1846-48 built the railroad that took the place of the canal.
He went to Illinois in 1850, and with Joseph E. Sheffield built the Chicago and Rock Island road, of which he was president in 1854-63. He died Oct. 4, 1883, in New Haven, Conn.
Farnam, Henry Wolcott
educator, author, was born Nov. 6, 1853, in New Haven, Conn. He is a professor of political economy at Yale university; and the author of Die Innere Französische Gewerpolitik von Colbert bis Turgot.
Farnham, Ellen W
philanthropist, was born in 1848. She has attained a national reputation as a philanthropist.
Farnham, Horace Putnam
physician, was born May 7, 1822, in Salem, Mass. He settled in the city of New York as a general practitioner; and in 1861-63 he was attending physician to the Northern dispensary of New York. He died June 9, 1886, in New York city.
FARNHAM, JOHN MARSHALL WIL- LOUGHBY, clergyman, author, was born in 1829, in Maine. He is a presbyterian missionary to China; and the author of Homeward; Farnham Genealogy; and The Missionary Complaint and Appeal.
Farnham, Luther
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 5, 1816, in Concord. N. H. In 1862 he was chosen secretary of the General Theological library of Boston.
He has published A Glance at Private Libraries; and has also prepared a History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
Farnham, Noah Lane
soldier, was born June 4, 1829, in New Haven, Conn.
In 1856 he was elected assistant engineer of the New York Fire department, and in 1857 joined the seventh regiment, soon attaining the rank of first lieutenant. He died Aug. 11, 1861, in Washington, D. C.
Farnham, Ralph
soldier, was born July 7, 1756, in Lebanon, Maine. He was the last survivor of the battle of Bunker Hill. In 1780 he settled in Acton, being the first white inhabitant of that township. He died Dec. 26, 1861, in Acton, Maine.
Farquhar, Arthur B
manufacturer, author, was born Sept. 28, 1838, in Montgomery county, Md. In 1889 he organized the A. B. Farquhar company, manufacturers of agricultural implements.
He is the author of a work entitled Economic and Industrial Delusions.
Farquhar, John H
soldier, civil engineer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1818, in Frederick county, Md. In 1861 he was commissioned as captain in the nineteenth United States infantry, in which capacity he served until 1864, when he resigned. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-ninth congress.
Farquhar, John M
soldier, journalist, manufacturer, congressman, was born April 17, 1832, in Scotland. He served throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of major, and acting as judge-advocate and as inspector on staff duty. 1884 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fiftyfirst congresses as a republican. In