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FARRAND 376 FARRELL in volume 4, page 177 of the Maritime Medi- cal News, Halifax, and is a very interesting document. It includes over 10,000 cases of confinement attended by the father and his three sons. Dr. Parish died in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1856. Donald A. Campbell. Farrand, David Osbom (1837-1883). David Osborn Farrand was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 23, 1837, the son of Judge Bethuel Farrand, prominent in the early history of Michigan, and Deborah Osborn Farrand, whose culture and tactful manners made a home full of benediction to all who were its guests. David had his general edu- cation in the Ann Arbor schools and the liter- ary department of the university, his medical studies in the medical department of the uni- versity and afterwards in Germany. He com- pleted them at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City, whence he re- ceived his diploma in 1862. On graduating he entered the United States Army as a volun- teer and was stationed at the Lawson General Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, later being detailed to the barracks at the east end of Clinton Street, Detroit, and St. Mary's Hos- pital, places for transfer of soldiers on their way to the front. In 1864 a commission as assistant surgeon in the regular army was given and he was transfered to Harper Hos- pital, Detroit. In 1866 he formed a partner- ship with Dr. Zina Pitcher (q. v.). Until 1871 by special permit he was contract surgeon of the Detroit troops. From its origin till his death in 1883 he was surgeon to Harper Hospi- tal, Detroit, and a member of the Michigan State Medical Society; in 1866 a leading spirit in the erection of Harper Hospital building; its training school for nurses was named after him, also one of the Detroit public schools. As he was quick of perception, of thought and exe- cution, he accomplished a vast amount of work. In September, 1866, Dr. Farrand married Elizabeth Trombly, who with two daughters and a son survived him. The son became a physician. The father died in Detroit, Michi- gan. March 18, 1883, with cerebral infection from a chronic suppurating ear. Leartus Connor. Cyclop, of Mich. Biog., 1900. Mich. Pioneer Recollections, vol. i. Farnsworth, Philo Judson (1832-1909). Philo Judson Farnsworth w^as born in West- ford, Vermont, January 9, 1832, the son of Levi and Lucy Curtis Farnsworth. He was graduated at the University of Vermont in 18.S4 and at its medical department in 1858, receiving an M. D, from the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, New York, in 1860. He married Mrs. Elizabeth Dean Eaton of Clinton, Iowa, in 1872. After living in Lyons, Iowa, from 1862-66, he moved to Clinton, Iowa, and in 1870 was elected to the chair of materia medica and dis- eases of children in the University of the State of Iowa, a position he held until 1895. Later he was made emeritus professor of the Iowa State LIniversity, of which he was one of the founders. For many years he was local surgeon at Clinton, Iowa, for the Chicago and North- western Railroad. He was founder of the first public library in that city. He was a member of several medical so- cieties and contributed to professional jour- nals, chiefly to the Medical and Surgical Re- porter of Philadelphia. He also paid some at- tention to local geology and archaeology. He read a paper on the "Therapeutics of Ammonia" before the American Medical Association in 1873 and one on "Indian Mounds" before the Iowa National History Society in 1876. He was the author of "A Snyopsis of a Course of Lectures on Materia Medica," Chicago, 1884. Dr. Farnsworth died February 14, 1909, of injuries received by a fall down the stairs of his house three days before. Appleton's Cyclop, of Amer. Biog., New York, 1887, vol. ii., 412. "Who's Who in America," 1903-5, 472. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, vol. Hi, 789. Farrell, Edward (1843-1901). Edward Farrell, the son of Dominick Far- rell of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 23, 1843, and after practising in that city for about thirty- five years, died there January 1, 1901. His literary education was obtained at St. Mary's College in his native city, his pro- fessional training with Dr. W. J. Almon, Hali- fax, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, from which he received his M. D. in 1864. For he next two years he was one of the house surgeons at Belle- vue Hospital, New York. He began practice in Halifax, in 1866, and quickly established a reputation for more than ordinary ability, associating himself actively with everything pertaining to the medical life of the city, and being one of the most earnest and devoted of those who fathered and fos- tered the Halifax Medical College. It was