Roswell Farnham (1827 - 1903)

Born 23 Jul 1827 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Johnson) Farnham — married 25 Dec 1849 in St Albans, Vermont, United States

Died 5 Jan 1903 at age 75 in Bradford, Orange, Vermont, United States

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Preceded by 37th Governor Redfield Proctor

Roswell Farnham 38th Governor of Vermont 1880—1882

Succeeded by 39th Governor John L. Barstow

Biography

Roswell Farnham is Notable.

Roswell was born in 1827. ^[1]He passed away in 1903. ^{[2] [3]}

Census

1860 - Bradford, Orange, Vermont, United States ^[4]

1870 - Vermont, United States^[5]

1880 - Bradford, Orange, Vermont, United States^[6]

1900 - Bradford town Bradford village, Orange, Vermont, United States ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFJV-YY7 : 3 November 2017), Roswell Farnham and E Johnson, 25 Dec 1849, Marriage; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 27,544.
2. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF74-XZK : 4 November 2017), Roswell Farnham, 05 Jan 1903, Death; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 540,596.
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #23278899: accessed 02 October 2018), memorial page for Roswell Farnham (23 Jul 1827–5 Jan 1903), citing Upper Plain Cemetery, Bradford, Orange County, Vermont, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFD3-TQ7 : 12 December 2017), Roswell Farnham in entry for Roswell Farnham, 1860.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6RH-M7J : 12 April 2016), Roswell Farnham, Vermont, United States; citing p. 37, family 367, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,121.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8WD-Z2S : 15 July 2017), Roswell Furnhan, Bradford, Orange, Vermont, United States; citing enumeration district ED 132, sheet 3A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1345; FHL microfilm 1,255,345.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMPS-SLT : accessed 3 October 2018), Roswell Farnham, Bradford town Bradford village, Orange, Vermont, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 138, sheet 5A, family 118, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,692.

• Roswell Farnham on Wikipedia

• University of Vermont Libraries - Roswell Farnham correspondence

• Farnham, John Marshall Willoughby. Genealogy of the Farnham Family (The Baker & Taylor co., 1899), p.18.

• Bixby, Willard Goldthwaite. A genealogy of the descendants of Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701 of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachusetts, who spell the name Bixby, Bigsby, Byxbie, Bixbee, or Byxbe and of the Bixby family in England, descendants of Walter Bekesby, 1427, of Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk (New York City: 1914), p.333-4.

• McKeen, Silas. A History of Bradford, Vermont (J. D. Clark & son, 1875), p.378-80.

• Vermonters in the Civil War, Correspondence

• Progressive lessons in the English language, co-author

• Gazetteer of Orange County, Vt., 1762-1888 (The Syracuse Journal Company, Syracuse, New York, 1888)

See also: Great-grandson, Roswell Farnham, Jr's obituary.