Faneuil, Peter – Farnham, George Loomis
Faneuil, Peter
founder, was born in 1700, in New Rochelle, N. Y. He was the founder of Faneuil hall, which, with the exception of the capitol at Washington, is probably the best known building in the United States. He died March 3, 1743, in Boston, Mass.
Fanning, David
free-booter, author, was born in 1756 in Johnston county, N. C.
He was a famous free-booter who acted with the royalists during the American revolution, and was one of those persons exempted by name from benefits of the general pardon. He was the author of a Narrative of Adventures in North Carolina, edited by J. H. Wheeler, and printed privately in 1861. He died in 1825 in Digby, N. S.
Fanning, John Thomas
civil engineer, author, was born Dec. 31, 1837, in Norwich, Conn. He is a distinguished civil engineer of Minneapolis, whose Treatise on Water Supply Engineering has had wide circulation.
Faran, James J
journalist, congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative from Ohio to the thirtieth congress; and subsequently became one of the proprietors of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Farfax, Donald Macneill
naval officer, was born Aug. 10, 1822, in Virginia. He served in the United States navy during the civil war; for gallant and meritorious services attained the rank of rear admiral.
Fargo, James Congdel
was born May 5, 1829, in Pompey, N. Y. In 1866 he came to New York city as the general superintendent and manager of the Fargo Express company; and succeeded to the presidency in 1881. He is also the president of the Merchants' Despatch Transportation company, and director of several important railroad and express companies.
Faris, George W
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born June 9, 1854, in Jasper county, Ind. In 1884 he was the republican nominee for the circuit judgeship, but was defeated by a slender majority. He has been active in republican politics; and was elected to the fiftyfourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Farlee, Isaac G
Congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845.
Farley, E. Wilder
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1818, in Maine. He was in the state legislature in 1845, and from 1851 to 1853. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1853 to 1855; and served in the state senate in 1856.
Farley, Harriet
journalist, author, was born in 1815, in Claremont, N. H. She was a factory operative of Lowell who, in 1841 and subsequently, edited The Lowell Offering. A selection from its pages, Mind among the Spindles, was published in London in 1849. Shells from the Strand of Genius is partly original and partly selected. Fancy's Frolics, a juvenile work, appeared many years later.
Farley, James Thompson
congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1829, in Virginia. He was a member of the California assembly in 1855 and 1856, and the latter year speaker of the house. He was elected a state senator in 1860 and served, by re-elections, eight years. He was elected a senator of the United States from California for the term 1879-85. He died Jan. 23, 1886, in Jackson, Cal.
Farley, Michael
patriot, was born in 1719 in Ipswich, Mass. He was a delegate to the provincial congress of Massachusetts in 1774-75, and was afterward a member of the house of representatives, July, 1775. He died June 20, 1789, in Ipswich, Mass.
Farlin, Dudley
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1835 to 1837. He died Sept. 26, 1837, in Warrensburg, N. Y.
Farlow, William Gilson
educator, botanist, author, was born Dec. 17, 1844, in Boston, Mass. He has been a professor of botany in Harvard univer-- sity since 1874, and the foremost American authority on cryptogamic botany. He is the author of Marine Algæ of New England; The Black Knot; The Gymnosporangia of the United States; Index of Fungi; The Potato Rot; and Diseases of Orange and Olive Trees.
Farman, Elbert Eli
lawyer, jurist, diplomat, was born April 23, 1831, in New Haven, N. Y. He was chiefly instrumental in securing from Egypt the granite obelisk known as Cleopatra's needle, which stood so long in front of the temple of Cæsar in Alexandria, and is now in Central Park, N. Y.
Farmer, Aaron D
type-founder, was born Jan. 18, 1816, in Bolton, Conn.
He entered the type-foundry of Eli White; was promoted manager of the manufacturing department; and later became a member of the firm, which was changed to Farmer, Little and Company, of New York city.
Farmer, George Edgar
soldier, was born in 1840 in New York city. He served in the civil war, and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He died Feb. 16, 1870, in New York city.
Farmer, Hannah T. S
philanthropist, was born March 20, 1823, in Berwick, Maine. In 1888 she erected in Eliot, Maine, a large edifice, Rosemary cottage, which institution was transferred by her to the care of the City Missionary society of Boston. She died June 27, 1891, in Eliot, Maine.
Farmer, Henry Tudor
author, poet, was born in 1782 in England. He was the author of Imagination; The Maniac's Dream, and Other Poems. He died January, 1828, in Charleston, S. C.
Farmer, John
genealogist, author, was born July 12, 1789, in Chelmsford, Mass. He was a genealogist of New England, whose Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England is a much valued work. His other writings include History of Billerica; History of Amherst; Gazetteer of New Hampshire; and an edition, with notes, of Belknap's History of New Hampshire. He died Aug. 13, 1839, in Concord, N. H.
Farmer, John
author, was born Feb. 9, 1798, in Half Moon, N. Y. He was a noted cartographer of Detroit who published A Gazetteer of Michigan. He died March 24, 1859, in Detroit, Mich.
Farmer, Luther M
educator, lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 31, 1856, in Coneta county, Ga. In 1883 he graduated from the university of Georgia, and then became principal of schools; and in 1885-86 was professor in the Howard college of Marion, Ala. He then moved to Newman, Ga., was admitted to the bar, and has since practiced his profession with success in that city. He was president of the board of education until 1894; when he resigned that position to become a member of the general assembly of Georgia. While a member of the legislature, he was the author of the school bill under which public schools of Georgia are now conducted.
Farmer, Mrs. Lydia Hoyt
author, poet, was born July 19, 1842, in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of Aunt Belindy's Points of View; Boys' Book of Famous Rulers; A Story Book of Science; Girls' Book of Famous Queens; The Prince of the Flaming Star, an Operetta; Life of Lafayette; A Short History of the French Revolution; A Knight of Faith; A Moral Inheritance; and The Doom of the Holy City.
Farmer, Silas
publisher, antiquarian, author, was born June 6, 1839, in Detroit, Mich. He is a publisher and antiquarian of Detroit; and the author of History of Detroit and Michigan.
Farnam, Charles Henry
archæologist, author, was born Sept. 12, 1846, in New Haven, Conn. He has been for several years assistant in archæology in the Peabody museum of Yale, and has published a History of John Whitman and his Descendants.
Farnam, Henry
philanthropist, railroad president, was born Nov. 9, 1803, in Scipio, N. Y. He removed to New Haven in 1839, and in 1846-48 built the railroad that took the place of the canal.
He went to Illinois in 1850, and with Joseph E. Sheffield built the Chicago and Rock Island road, of which he was president in 1854-63. He died Oct. 4, 1883, in New Haven, Conn.
Farnam, Henry Wolcott
educator, author, was born Nov. 6, 1853, in New Haven, Conn. He is a professor of political economy at Yale university; and the author of Die Innere Französische Gewerpolitik von Colbert bis Turgot.
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.
Farnham, Ellen W
philanthropist, was born in 1848. She has attained a national reputation as a philanthropist.
Farnham, George Loomis
educator, author, was born Jan. 9, 1824, in Richfield, N. Y. He has been eminently successful as a teacher and principal in female seminaries and public schools. He has been superintendent of schools in Syracuse, N. Y.; Binghamton, N. Y.; Council Bluffs, Iowa; and for ten years was principal of the Nebraska State Normal schools. In 1857 he was president of the New York State Teachers' association; and in 1886 was president of the Nebraska State Teachers' association. He is the author of The Thought and Sentence Method of Teaching, which he considers his most important work in educational lines. The system was first developed and applied during 1871-75 in the schools of Binghamton; and it has since received recognition and endorsement by the leading educators in America.