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Farrand, Samuel Ashbel

educator, was born June 4, 1830, in Bridport, Vt. For twenty-eight years he has been head-master of the Newark academy, Newark, N. J.; and is one of the foremost educators of the east. FARRAR, CHARLES A. J., author. He was a New England writer who published Moosehead Lake and the North Maine Wilderness; Camp Life in the Wilderness; The Lake and Forest Series; Wild- Woods Life; and From Lake to Lake. He died in 1893.

FARRAR, MRS. ELIZA WARE [ROTCH], author, was born in 1791, in Flanders. She was a writer of Cambridge who was the wife of a professor of mathematics in Harvard university. She was educated in England, where her first book, Congo in Search of his Master, was written. Her other works include The Children's Robinson Crusoe; The Young Lady's Friend; Life of Howard; The Story of Lafayette; Youth's Love-Letters; and Recollections of Seventy Years. She died April 22, 1870, in Springfield, Mass.