Farnell, George
lawyer, was born in 1854 in Yorkshire, England. In 1881 he emigrated to America. He was a factory operative until twenty-eight years of age; then became a newspaper reporter; teacher of shorthand; and official shorthand writer in Rhode Island. In 1893 he was admitted to the bar, and practices his profession in Johnston, R. I.
FARNHAM, MRS. ELIZA WOODSON (BURHANS), philanthropist, author, was born Nov. 17, 1815, in Rensselaerville, N.
Y. She was a philanthropist who from 1844 to 1848 was matron at the prison of Sing Sing, and later a resident of California. She was the author of Woman and her Era, which is her most important work. Others are Life in Prairie Land; My Early Days; The Ideal Attained; and California Indoors and Out. She died Dec. 15, 1864.