FARLOW
FARJIEK
crated in St. Patrick's cathedral. with full canon-
ical ceremony, titular bishop of Zeugma and
auxiliary bishop of New York, by Archbisliop Cor-
rigan, assisted by Bishop Mc-
Donnell of Brooklyn. N.Y.,
and Bishop Gabriel of Ogdens-
buig N Y Bishop McQuaid
of Rochestei, N.Y., delivered
the seimon the Very Rev.
Joseph T Mooney was as-
sistant piiest; the Rev. Ed-
ward JIcKenna and the Rev.
John Edwards, deacons of
honor; the
Rev. James H.
McGean, dea-
con of the
mass; the Rev.
Charles H.
Colton sub-
deacon; the
Rev. Michael
J. Lavelle,
,cJi.l, .New Tork Qtj. chaplain of
the briefs; the Rev. C. G. O'Keefe. deacon of the cross; the Very Rev. A. A. Lings, the Revs. F. P. Fitzmaurice, J. J. Dougherty, N. J. Huglies, M. C. O'Farrell and J, J. Flood, chaplains. He became Archbishop of Xe«- York. Sept. 1, lHO'i.
FARLOW, William Qilson, botanist, was born in Bo.ston, Mass., Dec. IT, 1S44. He was graduated at Harvard, B.S., 1866, M.D., 1870. He studied in Europe until 1874; was assistant professor of botany at Harvard, 1874-79, and was then ap- pointed professor of cry]rtogamic botany. He was elected a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences; a member of the National academy of science; corresponding member of the Manchester (England) literarj- and philo- sophical society; and a member of the Linneau society, London, and of learned societies of Ger- many and Italy. He is the author of; The Black Knot {\fi~Q); Diseases of Olive and Orange Trees (1876); The C4ymnosporanciia, or Cedar- Apples of the United States (1880); Marine Alffte of New England (1881); Introdiietinn to Cnjptogamic Botany; The Potato Rot: Indr'j- of Fnniji.
FARMAN, Elbert Eli, diplomatist, was born in New Haven, Oswego count}-, N.Y.. April 23, 1831; sou of Zadok and Martha (Dix) Farman; grandson of Roswell Farman and of Charles and Prudence (Welles) Dix, and a descendant of Rob- ert Foreman, a planter of Maryland, who came from London to Annapolis in 1674. He also de- scended on his mother's paternal side from Leon- ard Dix, one of the settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., and on his mother's maternal side from Gov. Thomas Welles, who settled in Wethersfield, Conn., in 163.5. He was graduated at Amherst
in 18."),j and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He
was district-attorney of Wyoming count}-, N.Y.,
1867-7,1. In 1876 President Grant appointed him
U.S. agent and consul-general at Cairo, Egypt,
President Hayes made him a member of the com-
mission to revise the international codes of Egj-pt;
President Garfield appointed him judge of the
international courts of Egypt, and President
Arthur named him as one of the international
commission that examined the claims for damages
arising from the bombardment of Alexandria in
1882. He received from the Khedive the deco-
ration of Grand officer of the Imperial Order of
the Medjidieh, a distinction seldom accorded to
foreigners. He received from Amherst the degree
of A.M. in 1860, and that of LL.D. in 1883.
FARMER, Hannah Tobey 5hapleig;h, phi- lanthropist, was born in Berwick, Maine, March 30. 1833; daughter of Richard and Olive (Tobey) Shapleigh. On Dec. 2.5, 1844, she was married to Moses Gerrish Farmer whom she materially as- sisted in the development of many important discoveries and inventions. She was active in charitable works and during the civil war she originated and conducted a series of entertain- ments for the benefit of soldiers, by which large sums were realized and distributed through the Christian commission and other benevolent chan- nels. In 1888 she erected, in Eliot, Maine, to the memory of an infant son, " Rosemary Cot- tage " "to give shelter and food and comfort " to needy women and children. This institution was sub.seqiieutly given over by Mrs. Farmer to the care of the city missionaiy society of Boston, Mass. She contributed both prose and poetry to the general press, writing largely for the ad- vancement of various philanthropic movements. She died in Eliot, Maine, June 27, 1891,
FARMER, James Eugene, professor and au- thor, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, July .5, 1867; son of Elihu Jerome and Lydia (Hoyt) Farmer, and grandson of James M. and JIary Ella (Beebe) Hoyt. He was graduated at Yale in 1891, pur- sued a post-graduate course in history at Western Reserve university and received the degree of A.M. from Yale in 1894. He was made master in history and English literature at St. Paul's school. Concord, N.H., in 1894. He was elected to a membership in the Societe de V Histoire de la Revo- lution Fran(;aise in 1897. He is the author of two Essays on French History (1897): 1st, The Rise of the Reformation in France, and 3d, The Cluh of the Jacohins; The Grenadier, a Story of the Empire (1898): and The Hussar's Song, a ballad published in Current Literature, August, 1897.
FARMER, John, historian and genealogist; was born in Chelmsford, Mass , June 12, 1789; son of John and Lydia (Richardson), grandson of Oliver and Rachel (Shed), great-grandson of
