Husband F. F. Farrar 1
Born: 24 Aug 1821 or 1822 - Vermont 1
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Father: Oliver Farrar ( - ) 2
Mother: Polly [Unk] ( - ) 2
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Other Spouse: Maria S. Warner ( - ) 2
Wife Mrs. Mary Day 3
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1 M Joe Farrar 3
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General Notes: Husband - F. F. Farrar
He was in the wholesale grocery business in Erie, Pennsylvania, in partnership with A. H. Gray for a period of twenty years. In 1869, he entered manufacturing business in Pittsburgh, and moved to Waterford in 1875. By 1884 he retired.
He was brought up in his father's mills and on the farm. His educational advantages were good, being the common schools and the Hancock Academy in New Hampshire; he taught one successful term of school about the time of reaching his majority. In 1843, he removed to Waterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania, and with his brother, A. J., conducted a mercantile business until 1853, when he withdrew and engaged in farming and the hotel business at Forest Home, Erie County, continuing nearly four years with good success; he then entered a partnership with L. Phelps in the grocery line at Waterford. In one year he sold out and engaged under the firm name of Gray & Farrar in the wholesale grocery business at Erie up to 1867 or 1868, when he sold and turned his entire attention to the restoration of sulphuric acid at Pittsburgh, in which enterprise he had invested prior to that time; he subsequently took the principal management of the branch business at Titusville and was very successful.
During the [Civil?] war he was Mayor of Erie; he was ardently attached to the cause of the Union, was opposed to slavery, and was an enthusiastic Republican. In his declining years, he was somewhat troubled with the asthma.