n 1858 he was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Thirty-Sixth Congress, and has been returned to every succeeding
Congress, including the Fortieth.--31, 95, 138, 157 295, 296, 306,
347, 443.

JOHN F. FARNSWORTH was born of New England parentage, in Eaton, Lower
Canada, March 27, 1820, but was early removed to the Territory of
Michigan. In 1843 he settled in St. Charles, Illinois, and entered
upon the practice of law. In 1846 he left the Democratic Party with
which he had acted, and joined the "Liberty Party." In 1856 and again
in 1858 he was elected to Congress, from what was then known as the
Chicago District. In 1861 he raised the Eighth Illinois Cavalry
Regiment, of which he was Colonel until his promotion to the rank of
Brigadier General. The severe service in which he was engaged in the
Peninsular Campaign brought on a disability which necessitated his
resignation. In the fall of 1862 he was elected a Representative from
Illinois to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected in 1864 and
1866, on both occasions receiving the largest majorities given by any
district in the United States.--61, 333, 339, 448, 519, 537.

JOHN H. FARQUHAR was born in Frederick County, Maryland, December 20,
1818. With his widowed mother he removed to Indiana in 1833, and was
employed as civil engineer upon some of the earliest public
improvements of the State. In 1841 he was elected Secretary of the
Indiana Senate. In 1843 he was Chief Clerk of the Indiana House of
Representatives, and was the same year admitted to the bar in
Brookfield. In 1844 he was a delegate to the National Convention which
nominated Henry Clay. In 1852 he was candidate for Presidential
Elector on the Scott ticket, and in 1860 on the Lincoln ticket. In
1861 he was commissioned a Captain in the Nineteenth United States
Infantry, and was detailed as mustering and disbursing officer for
Indiana. In 1864 he was elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was succeeded by _William S. Holman_ in the
Fortieth Congress.

THOMAS W. FERRY was born in Mackinac, Michigan, June 1, 1827. He has
been occupied extensively in the lumber trade and in banking. In 1850
he was elected to the House of Representatives of Michigan, and in
1856 to the State Senate. For eight years he was an efficient member
of the Republican State Committee, and was a delegate and a
Vice-President of the Chicago Convention of 1860. In 1864 he was
elected a