Harvard Medical School. He was a quarterback for the football team, attended Harvard Medical School, and later served as a professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and as chief of the department of surgery at the Yale – New Haven Hospital. Farmer attended the and received his undergraduate degree there in 1938.
He played college football at Michigan from 1935 to 1937 and was the starting quarterback of the 1937 Michigan Wolverines football team A profile of farmer in the 1938 yearbook described Farmer as follows:. Farmer is a very versatile guy.
Intelligent, too.
From something known as Hinsdale, Illinois. "Pretty Muscles" is still a cosmopolite. He walks down State Street just as if he were used to a big town."
After graduating from Michigan, Farmer attended Harvard Medical School.
He became a medical doctor and professor of medicine at Boston University and Yale University.
He was also the chief of the department of surgery at the Yale – New Haven Hospital. He lived in Madison, Connecticut in his later years.
He died in March 1977 at the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, Connecticut.
While at Michigan, he was also a member and president of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, president of the senior class (Class of 1938), and a member of the Sphinx and Michigamua.
