Farnham, Roswell
soldier, lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Dec. 23, 1827, in Boston, Mass. He was *elected state's attorney for Orange county, Vt., in 1859, and re-elected in 1860 and 1861. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1863, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was elected state senator in 1868 and 1869; and was a member of the state board of education in 1873-75.
He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1876, and a presidential elector the same year. He was governor of Vermont from 1880 to 1882. FARNHAM, THOMAS JEFFERSON, lawyer, author, was born in 1804, in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer who in 1839 headed an expedition to Oregon; and is the author of Travels in Oregon Territory (1842); Travels in California; Memorial of the Northwest Boundary Line; and Mexico, its Geography, People, and Institutions. He died in September, 1848, in California.
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