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Farwell, John Villiers

mer-and for a while was temporary president chant, capitalist, was born July 29, 1825, in Mead's Creek, N. Y. He is vice-president and treasurer of the John V. Farwell Co., one of the largest dry goods jobbing houses in the northwest; and has been identified with the commercial life of Chicago about fifty years. He is also president of the Colorado Consolidated Land and Water Co., which is building a long irrigating canal in Montezuma county, Col. He was Indian commissioner during General Grant's first term as president.

In 1887, in company with his brother Charles, he built the state house of Texas in exchange for three million acres of land.