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420 &ldquo;A Windy Day&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Old House on the Hill,&rdquo; and to the Paris exhibition of 1878 &ldquo;A Quiet Pool.&rdquo;

FARRAR, Timothy, jurist, b. in Concord, Mass., 11 July, 1747; d. in Hollis, N. H., 21 Feb., 1849. He was graduated at Harvard in 1767, taught school and settled in New Ipswich, N. H., in 1770. 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 was appointed chief-justice in February, 1802, and altogether filled the office of judge for more than forty years. &mdash; His son, Timothy, jurist, b. in New Ipswich, N. H., 17 March, 1788; d. in 1874. He was a law partner of Daniel Webster from 1813 to 1816, and from 1824 to 1833 was judge of the New Hampshire court of common pleas. He was vice-president of the New England historic genealogical society from 1853 to 1858. He published &ldquo;Report of the Dartmouth College Case&rdquo; (Portsmouth, 1819); &ldquo;Review of the Dred Scott Decision&rdquo; (1857); &ldquo;Manual of the Constitution of the United States&rdquo; (Boston, 1867); and also wrote articles for the &ldquo;North American Review&rdquo; and the &ldquo;New Englander.&rdquo;

FARRELL, John P., Canadian R. C. bishop, b. in Kingston, Ontario; d. in Hamilton, Ontario, 20 Sept., 1873. He studied theology in the seminary of Montreal, and after completing the course was ordained priest and stationed at L'Original, Ot- tawa. In 1856 the diocese of Hamilton was cre- ated, and Dr. Farrell was apjiointed its bishop.

FARRELL, Thomas, clergyman, b. in Ireland; d. in New York, 19 July, 1880. He came to the United States when a boy, studied for the priesthood at Mount St. Mary's college, Emmettsburg. Md., and was ordained by Archbishop Hughes. He was a staunch supporter of the Union during the war of secession, took great interest in the welfare of the colored people, and bequeathed $5,000 to form the nucleus of a fund to establish a church for their benefit in New York. In accordance with his wishes, the church of St. Benedict the Moor, on Bleecker street, was organized after his death.

FARRER, Edward, Canadian journalist, b. in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland, 8 Oct., 1850. He was educated by private tutors at Stonyhurst col- lege, England, and at the Jesuit college in Rome. On completing his course of study, he declined the places of assistant teacher of Greek and Latin and teacher of English in the University of Milan. In 1870 he arrived in Canada and connected himself with the " Daily Telegraph " in Toronto, but upon the establishment of the Toronto " Mail " in 1872 he joined its editorial staff, and remained there till 1881, when he became foreign editor of the New York " World." After about a year's service on this paper he went to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was for two years editor of the Winnipeg " Times." In the autumn of 1884 he became editor-in-chief of the Toronto " Mail," a place which he now (1887) holds. Mr. Farrer has made a special study of the Indian languages, and is preparing for the press a work on "The Algonkin Religion."

FARRINGTON, William George, clergyman, b. in New York city, 15 Dec, 1833. He was gradu- ated at Columbia in 1853, and at the Greneral theo- logical seminary. New York, in 1856, was ordained deacon and priest the same year, and was rector at Huntington, L. I., till 1858, and then assistant in Trinity parish. New York city, till 1862. In 1863 he organized Christ church in Haekensack, N. J., of which he was rector till 1870. He subsequently had charge of churches at Newark and Orange, N. J., and at Bloomfield from 1877. He published a tract on '• The Historical Church " in 1861, and has edited the "Church Almanac" since 1867.

'''FARROW. Samuel''', lawyer, b. in Virginia about 1759; d. in Columbia, S. C., 18 Nov., 1824. flis father settled near Musgrove's Mills, in Spartan- burgh district, South Carolina, about 1765. The son was a member of a company of scouts in the Revolutionai'v war, was wounded in one of the numerous skirmishes in which he was engaged, and took part in the battle of INIusgrove's Mills. When he was made a prisoner, together with his two brothers, his mother, a daughter of Col. Phile- mon Waters, obtained their release by delivering up six British prisoners, and boasted that she had made a good bargain, because she could beat the British four to one. After the war he studied law, was admitted to the bar in Charleston in 1793, and settled at Spartanburgh. In 1810 he was elected lieutenant-governor, and in 1812 as a Democrat to congress from the Pinckney district, serving from 24 May, 1813. till 4 March, 1815. He was re- elected, but resigned, preferring to serve in the state house of representatives, of which he was a member from 1816 till 1821, when he retired from public life. The organization of the South Caro- lina lunatic asylum and deaf and dumb asylum was chiefly due to his efforts.

FARWELL, Charles Benjamin, senator, b. in Painted Post, N. Y., 1 July, 1823. He was edu- cated at Elmira academy, removed to Illinois in 1838, and was employed in governmcTit siirveying and farming until 1844, when he engaged in the real estate business and banking in ("hicago. He was elected county clerk in 1853, and re-elected to this office in 1857. Subsequently he engaged in mercantile pursuits, and became a member of the firm of John V. Farwell and Company. He was appointed a member of the state board of equaliza- tion in 1867, chairman of the board of supervisors in 1868, and National bank examiner in 1869. In 1871 he was elected to congress as a Republican, and served on the committee on banking and cur- rency, and as chairman of that on manufactures. He remained in congress till 1876, when the house decided that J. V. Le Moyne was entitled to his seat. On the death of Gen. John A. Logan he was in 1887 elected U. S. senator from Illinois. — His brother, John Villiers, merchant, b. in Meads Creek, Steuben co., N. Y., 29 July, 1825, was graduated at Mount INIorris seminary. 111., in 1844. In 1860 he was a presidential elector on the Re- publican ticket, and he held the office of Indian commissioner during President Grant's first term, and travelled 10,000 miles in this service. In con- nection with his brother, he built the state house of Texas for 3,000.000 acres of land.

FARWELL, Nathan Allen, senator, b. in Unity, Me., 24 Feb., 1812; d. in Rocklarul, Me., 10 Dec, 1893. He was graduated in 1831, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began to practise in Rockland, Me. He was a member of the state senate in 1853, 1854, 1861, and 1862, serving as president in 1861, and of the lower branch of the legislature in 1860, 1863, and 1864. He was a dele- gate to the Baltimore National Republican con- vention in 1864, and in that year was appointed to the U. S. senate as a Republican for the unexpired term of William Pitt Fessenden. He was a dele- gate to the Philadelphia " Loyalists' Convention " of 1866. He travelled in Europe from 1845 till 1847. He had been master mariner, trader, and twenty-five years president of marine insurance.

FARWELL, Samuel, contractor, b. about 1800; d. in Saginaw, Mich., 17 Nov., 1875. He was a resident of Utica, N. Y., and was known throughout the United States for fifty years as a contractor for the building of public works. He began