the 17th Illinois regiment, by order of the war department, and was commissioned brigadier-general, 29 Nov., 1862, but was compelled to resign from the army in March, 1863, owing to injuries received in the field. He then removed to St. Charles, Ill., and from 1863 till 1873 was again a member of congress. Since 1873 he was engaged in the practice of his profession in Washington, D. C. — His nephew,
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Elon John, soldier, b. in Green Oak, Livingston co., Mich., in 1837; d. in Gettysburg, Pa., 3 July, 1863, was educated in the public schools, and spent a year at the University of Michigan. Leaving college in 1858, he served in the quartermaster's department of the army during the Utah expedition of that year. He then engaged in buffalo-hunting, and in carrying freight to the then newly discovered mines at Pike's Peak. In 1861 he became assistant quartermaster of the 8th Illinois cavalry, which his uncle was then organizing. He was soon promoted to captain, and took part in all the battles of the Peninsula, and in those of Pope's campaign. He was appointed aide to Gen. Pleasonton in May, 1863, promoted to brigadier-general on the 29th of the following month, and was killed four days afterward while leading a charge during the battle of Gettysburg.
FARNSWORTH, Joseph Downing, physician,
b. in Middletown, Conn., about 1780; d. in Fairfax,
Vt., 9 Sept., 1857. For more than fifty years
he was one of the most eminent physicians in
Vermont. He was for fifteen years chief judge in
Franklin county, and for twenty-seven years a
member of the legislature. He was especially active
in promoting the interests of the Baptist
denomination, to which he belonged, and vigorously
opposed an act passed by the Vermont legislature
in 1787 requiring the inhabitants of each town to
support “the standing order,” unless they could
show that they were connected with some other
religious organization. This act was repealed in 1807.
FARNSWORTH, Philo Judson, physician, b.
in Westford, Chittenden co., Vt., 9 Jan., 1832. He
was graduated at the University of Vermont in
1854, and at its medical department in 1858. He
practised at Phillipsburg, Canada, until 1860, in
which year he received a second medical degree
from the College of physicians and surgeons in
New York. He was in Lyons, Iowa, in 1862-'6,
then went to Clinton, Iowa, and in 1870 was elected
to the chair of materia medica and diseases of children
in the University of the State of Iowa. He is
a member of several medical societies, and has
contributed frequently to professional journals, chiefly
to the “Medical and Surgical Reporter” of
Philadelphia. He has also paid some attention to local
geology and archæology. 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 is the author of “A Synopsis of a Course
of Lectures on Materia Medica” (Chicago, 1884).
FARNUM, John Egbert, soldier, b. in New
Jersey, 1 April, 1824; d. in New York city, 16 May,
1870. He was educated in Pottsville, Pa., entered
the army as sergeant-major of the 1st Pennsylvania
infantry in 1846, and served through the Mexican
war. Subsequently he joined the Lopez
expedition to Cuba which left New Orleans in 1850, and
also took an active part in Walker's Nicaraguan
expeditions. Still later he was captain of the slave-yacht
“Wanderer,” and was indicted at Savannah
for carrying on the slave-trade. He is said to have
regretted this episode in his life, and at the beginning
of the civil war he became major in the 70th
New York volunteers, which was raised and
commanded by Gen. Sickles. He distinguished
himself for gallantry in all the engagements in which
Sickles's brigade took part, and was promoted
colonel of his regiment. At the battle of
Williamsburg, 5 May, 1862, he was severely wounded,
but recovered in time to take part in the battles of
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg,
and was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant
conduct in those engagements. He was then
compelled by his wounds to abandon active service,
and accepted the colonelcy of the 11th regiment of
the veteran reserve corps, which he retained till
the close of the war. Later he was appointed
inspector of customs in the city of New York, which
office he held at the time of his death.
FARQUHAR, Norman von Heldreich, naval
officer, b. in Pottsville, Pa., 11 April, 1840. He was
graduated at the U. S. naval academy in 1859,
became a lieutenant in 1861, a lieutenant-commander
in 1865, and a commander in 1872. In 1862-'3 he
was executive officer of the steamer “Mahaska,”
of the North Atlantic squadron, and during that
period frequently engaged the enemy both afloat
and in expeditions on shore. As executive officer
of the “Santiago de Cuba” he took part in both
attacks on Fort Fisher, N. C., and led the men of
that vessel in the successful assault on the fort of
15 Jan., 1865. He was commandant of cadets at
the U. S. naval academy in 1881-'6, and in the
latter year was promoted captain.
FARRAGUT, David Glasgow, naval officer, b. at Campbell's Station, near Knoxville, Tenn., 5 July, 1801; d. in Portsmouth, N. H., 14 Aug., 1870. His ancestry is traced to Don Pedro Ferragut,
called “El Conquistador,” who served under James I., king of Aragon, in the campaign in which the Moors were expelled from Majorca and Valencia in the 13th century. The estates of the family were in the Balearic islands, and among the notable members were Agustin, a theologian; Pablo, an historian; Antonio, a distinguished soldier of the 17th century; Gonzalo, bishop of Urgel; and three magistrates of the kingdom of Majorca. But the
name is now extinct in those islands. The admiral's grandfather married Juana Mesquida, and that surname appears to have superseded Ferragut. The admiral's father, George Farragut, b. in Minorca,
29 Sept., 1755; d. at Point Plaquet, West Pascagoula, La., 4 June, 1817, emigrated to this country in 1776, took part in the Revolutionary war, and was the friend and companion of Gen. Andrew
Jackson during his Indian campaigns of 1813-'14. The journal of the U. S. house of representatives for 1797 records that William C. C. Claiborne presented “the petition of George Farragut, praying
that he may be allowed the balance of pay due to him for services rendered the United States as muster-master of the militia of the district of Washington [East Tennessee], employed in actual service for the protection of the frontiers of the United States south of the Ohio, from the 1st of
