Farnsworth, John F
lawyer, congressman, was born March 27, 1820, in Eaton, Canada. He was a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from Illinois, and was a member of the committee on revolutionary pensions. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress, and in 1862 to the thirty-eighth congress, serving on the committee on military affairs. 1861 he took part in the war as colonel of volunteers; raised and took into the field the eighth regiment of Illinois cavalry, serving in the army of the Potomac until 1863. In 1863 and 1864 he raised the seventeenth regiment of Illinois volunteers by order of the war department; and was brevetted a brigadier-general in 1862.
He was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress; was a regent of the Smithsonian institution; was a delegate to the Pittsburg soldiers' convention of 1866; and was re-elected to the fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second congresses as a republican.
FARNSWORTH, PHILO JUDSON, physician, was born Jan. 9, 1832, in Westford, Vt. He is one of the foremost physicians of Iowa at Clinton.