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=Farmer, Mrs. Lydia [Hoyt].= _O._, 1842-1903. A miscellaneous writer of
Cleveland. Aunt Belindy’s Points of View; Boys’ Book of Famous Rulers;
A Story Book of Science; Girls’ Book of Famous Queens; The Prince of
the Flaming Star, an Operetta; Life of Lafayette; A Short History of
the French Revolution; A Knight of Faith; A Moral Inheritance; The Doom
of the Holy City. _Cr. Lo. Mer. Ran._
=Farmer, Silas.= _Mch._, 1839-1902. Son of J. Farmer, _supra_. A
publisher and antiquarian of Detroit. History of Detroit and Michigan.
=Farnam, Henry Wolcott.= _Ct._, 1853- ----. A professor of political
economy at Yale University. Die Innere Französische Gewerpolitik von
Colbert bis Turgot.
=Farnham, Mrs. Eliza Woodson [Burhans].= _N. Y._, 1815-1864. Wife of T.
J. Farnham, _infra_. A philanthropist who from 1844 to 1848 was matron
at the prison of Sing Sing, and later a resident of California. Woman
and her Era is her most important work. Others are Life in Prairie
Land; My Early Days; The Ideal Attained; California Indoors and Out.
=Farnham, John Marshall Willoughby.= _Me._, 1829- ----. A Presbyterian
missionary to China; Homeward; Farnham Genealogy; The Missionary
Complaint and Appeal.
=Farnham, Thomas Jefferson.= _Vt._, 1804-1848. A lawyer who in 1839
headed an expedition to Oregon. Travels in Oregon Territory (1842);
Travels in California; Memorial of the Northwest Boundary Line; Mexico,
its Geography, People, and Institutions (1846).
=Farquharson, Martha.= _See Finley, Martha._
=Farrar, Charles A. J.= 18-- -1893. 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; From Lake to
Lake. _Le._
=Farrar, Mrs. Eliza Ware [Rotch].= _Bm._, 1791-1870. 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; Recollections of Seventy
Years.
=Farrar, Timothy.= _N. H._, 1788-1874. A New Hampshire jurist. Report
of Dartmouth College Case; Reviews of the Dred Scott Decision; Manual
of the United States Constitution.
=Farrington, Margaret Vere.= _See Livingston, Mrs. Margaret._
=Farrow, Edward Samuel.= _Md._, 1855- ----. An army officer and
engineer. West Point and the Military Academy; A Military System
of Gymnastic Exercises; Mountain Scouting; Pack Mules and Packing;
Farrow’s Military Encyclopædia.
=Fasquelle, Jean Louis.= _F._, 1808-1862. A French educator who came
to America in 1834, and was professor of modern languages at Michigan
University, 1846-62. Lessons in French; French Course; Télémaque, with
Notes and Grammatical References; General and Idiomatic Dictionary of
the French and English Languages. _Cas._
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