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Farnsworth, P. J. (Philo Judson), 1832-

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  • Person
  • 1832-1909

Philo Judson Farnsworth was born on January 9, 1832, in Westford, Vermont.

He was an American physician. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1854 and received his medical degree in 1858. He practised at Philipsburg, Canada until 1860. The same year he received a second medical degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He worked in Lyons, Iowa (1862-1866), then went to Clinton, Iowa, and in 1870, he was elected to the Chair of Materia medica and children’s diseases at the University of Iowa. He was a member of several medical societies and has contributed frequently to professional journals, chiefly to the Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia.

In 1862, he married Mary Ford. In 1872, he married Elizabeth B. D. Eaton (1834–1907). He died on February 14, 1909, in Clinton, Iowa.

Farquhar, John Henry Joseph

  • Person
  • 1879–1972

John Henry Joseph Farquhar was born on December 12, 1879, in Silvington, Shropshire, England.

He was a forester and plant collector based in Nigeria. In recognition of his contributions, the genus Farquharia, belonging to the family Apocynaceae, was named after him. This genus, first described in 1912, comprises a single recognized species, Farquharia elliptica, which is native to tropical regions of western and central Africa, including Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

He died on October 22, 1972, in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England.

Farr, Marcus Stults

  • Person
  • 1870-1942

He was born on February 19, 1870, in Monroe, Middlesex, New Jersey.

He served as associate professor emeritus of geology and paleontology at Princeton University. He earned an A.B. degree from Princeton in 1892, followed by a Master of Science in 1893 and a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1894. In 1896, he received a Doctor of Science from Princeton. Between 1898 and 1900, he worked as an assistant in zoology at the New York State Museum in Albany. He was a member of the Princeton faculty for forty years prior to his retirement in 1938. Professor Farr integrated biology and geology in his teaching, particularly through a widely attended course on osteology. Numerous Princeton alumni who later became surgeons and physicians benefited from his lectures and preceptorials in these and related subjects.

In 1894, he married Luella C. Bergen (1869–1963). He died on August 27, 1942, in Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey.

Farrar, Clarence B., 1874-1970

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  • Person
  • 1874-1970

Dr. Clarence B. Farrar (1874-1970) was an American psychiatrist born in Cattaraugus, New York. Farrar earned an arts degree from Harvard University in 1896, and then pursued his medical degree at John Hopkins University, graduating with an M.D. in 1900. While studying at John Hopkins, Sir William Osler was one of his professors and mentors. During the First World War, Farrar left the United States for Canada and became medical director of the newly built Toronto Psychiatric Hospital in 1926, as well as Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 1947. Farrar was also appointed Chief Psychiatrist for the Canadian Army, focusing his research on cases of shell shock. A distinguished member of many societies throughout his career, Farrar was also editor of The American Journal of Psychiatry for thirty-four years, from 1931-1965.

Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903

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  • Person
  • 1831-1903

Frederic William Farrar was born on August 7, 1831, in Bombay, India.

He was a cleric of the Church of England (Anglican), schoolteacher, comparative philologist, and author. He was educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man, King's College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry in 1852. He became a master at Harrow School and, the headmaster of Marlborough College (1871-1876). Farrar spent much of his career associated with Westminster Abbey. He was successively a canon there, rector of St Margaret's (the church next door), and archdeacon of the Abbey. Since 1895, he served as Dean of Canterbury. He was an eloquent preacher and a voluminous author. He published over fifty books, including his well-known "Life of Christ" (1874), translated into many languages and "Life of St. Paul" (1879). In 1866, he was elected to the Royal Society for his philological work. He applied Charles Darwin's ideas of branching descent to the relationships between languages, engaging in a protracted debate with the anti-Darwinian linguist Max Müller. In April 1882, he was one of ten pallbearers at the funeral of Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey.

In 1860, he married Lucy Mary Cardew (1841–1921). He died on March 22, 1903, in Canterbury, England.

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