Biography

07/1823 - 12/07/1903


FARR, John Thomas, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, July of 1823 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; educated, St. Paul’s Academy, England; pharmacist; elected, director of the poor, 23rd Ward, Philadelphia; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1879 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); died, December 7, 1903 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Greenwood Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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