Farnham, Horace Putnam – Farrel, Franklin
Farnham, Horace Putnam
physician, was born May 7, 1822, in Salem, Mass. He settled in the city of New York as a general practitioner; and in 1861-63 he was attending physician to the Northern dispensary of New York. He died June 9, 1886, in New York city.
Farnham, John Marshall Wil- Loughby
clergyman, author, was born in 1829, in Maine. He is a presbyterian missionary to China; and the author of Homeward; Farnham Genealogy; and The Missionary Complaint and Appeal.
Farnham, Luther
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 5, 1816, in Concord. N. H. In 1862 he was chosen secretary of the General Theological library of Boston.
He has published A Glance at Private Libraries; and has also prepared a History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
Farnham, Noah Lane
soldier, was born June 4, 1829, in New Haven, Conn.
In 1856 he was elected assistant engineer of the New York Fire department, and in 1857 joined the seventh regiment, soon attaining the rank of first lieutenant. He died Aug. 11, 1861, in Washington, D. C.
Farnham, Ralph
soldier, was born July 7, 1756, in Lebanon, Maine. He was the last survivor of the battle of Bunker Hill. In 1780 he settled in Acton, being the first white inhabitant of that township. He died Dec. 26, 1861, in Acton, Maine.
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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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.
Farquhar, Arthur B
manufacturer, author, was born Sept. 28, 1838, in Montgomery county, Md. In 1889 he organized the A. B. Farquhar company, manufacturers of agricultural implements.
He is the author of a work entitled Economic and Industrial Delusions.
Farquhar, John H
soldier, civil engineer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1818, in Frederick county, Md. In 1861 he was commissioned as captain in the nineteenth United States infantry, in which capacity he served until 1864, when he resigned. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-ninth congress.
Farquhar, John M
soldier, journalist, manufacturer, congressman, was born April 17, 1832, in Scotland. He served throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of major, and acting as judge-advocate and as inspector on staff duty. 1884 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fiftyfirst congresses as a republican. In
Farr, Eliza
poet. She has written extensively for the periodical press, and several of her poems have been given a place in standard collections.
Farr, Evarts W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1840, in Littleton, N. H. He served throughout the war, rising to the rank of major. He was appointed assessor of internal revenue in 1870, and continued to serve until the office was abolished in 1873. He was prosecuting attorney for Grafton county in 1873 and 1876; and was a member of the executive council in 1876. He was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the forty-sixth congress. He died Nov. 30, 1880. a
Farragut, David Glasgow
was born July 5, 1801, near Knoxville, Tenn.
He was America's great admiral. His capture of New Orleans and Mobile during the civil war created for him name equal in fearless bravery to Nelson; and in grandeur of character to the illustrious Collingwood. He died Aug. 14, 1870, in Portsmouth, N.H. A monument to his honor stands in Madison square, New York city.
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.
Farrar, Ferdinando R
lawyer, jurist, lecturer, was born Jan. 7, 1828, in Prince Edward county, Va. He received his education at the Princeton college and the university of Virginia. He served with distinction as a judge for twentyseven years; and for thirty years as a lecturer. He began his professional career as lecturer in 1866 with his famous Johnny Reb as his only subject, to which he has added since Lights and Shadows; Rip Van Winkle; The American Eagle; and four others, all popular and clever creations.
Farrar, Henry
artist, was born March 23, 1843, in London, England. His principal works are On the East River; A Hot Day; A Calm Afternoon; Sunset, Coast of Maine; The Silent Tongue; The Old Homestead at Twilight; and a November Day.
Farrar, John
educator, was born July 1, 1779, in Lincoln, Mass. He published for the use of his pupils a translation of Lacroix's Elements of Algebra (1818), which he followed by selections from Legendre, Biot, Bezant, and others.
These works were at once adopted as text-books by Harvard, the United States Military academy, and other institutions.
He died May 8, 1858, in Cambridge, Mass.
Farrar, Samuel
lawyer, banker, was born in 1784, in Lincoln, Mass. He was one of the chief founders of the Andover Theological seminary, and for thirty-eight years was treasurer of that institution and of Phillips academy. He was the first president of the Andover bank, and held the office thirty years.
He died May 13, 1864, in Andover, Mass.
Farrar, Thomas Charles
artist, was born Dec. 16, 1838, in London. He came to New York in 1858; and attained success as an instructor in his art. He served in the union army during the civil war, and in 1869 returned to London, where he has since resided. Among his works exhibited at the National academy in New York were Field-Lily, and Twilight on the Hudson (1867); Beach at Hastings, and English Farm.
Farrar, Timothy
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born July 11, 1747, in Concord, Mass. He was a major in the revolutionary army, and after the war became a justice of the court of common pleas of New Hampshire. He died Feb. 21, 1849, in Hollis, N. H.
Farrar, Timothy
jurist, author, was born March 17, 1788, in New Ipswich, N. H. He was a New Hampshire jurist; and the author of Report of Dartmouth College Case; Reviews of the Dred Scott Decision; and Manual of the United States Constitution. He died Oct. 27, 1874, in Boston, Mass.
Farrel, Franklin
manufacturer, was born Feb. 17, 1828, in Waterbury, Conn. The Bridgeport Forge Co., a concern of which Mr. Farrel is president and principal owner, was organized and located in Ansonia, Conn. The Bridgeport Copper Co. was organized soon afterward through the efforts of Mr. Farrel, and its first buildings erected in the same locality. He became identified with the Parrot Silver and Copper Co., of Butte City, Mont., and the first mine was worked in 1877.