Egypt and Its Betrayal: An Account of the Country During the Periods of Ismail and Tewfik Pashas, and of How England Acquired a New Empire / By Elbert E. Farman
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Along the Nile With General Grant (Classic Reprint)
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The present work has been written primarily to preserve the memory of the pleasant days passed with General and Mrs. Grant on their historic voyage of theN ile. The object of the voyage was rest and pleasure, but General Grant became mtensely interested in the coimtry and its monuments. It has been the aim of the writer to describe in a familiar manner, not only what was then seen, but to add to those descriptions brief accounts of the later discoveries. The ancient moniunents of Egjrpt that are usually visited by travelers are in theN ile valley, between Cairo and the First Cataract. This valley is the cradle of art. I ts monuments, great and small, are the richest legacies bequeathed by the remote past to succeeding generations. An account of the General svoyage of theN ile, and what he then saw, necessarily requires their brief description. To understand the motives that prompted their construction, and the continued labor of many centuries in making additions and restorations, it is only necessary to know their purpose.
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Foreman-Farman-Forman Genealogy; Descendants of William Foreman, Who Came from London, England, in 1675, and Settled Near Annapolis, Maryland, Supplem by Elbert Eli Farman (2012-05-11)
Elbert Eli Farman was an American jurist, diplomat.
Background
Elbert Eli Farman was born at New Haven, Oswego County, New York, the third son of Zadok and Martha (Dix) Farman.
On the paternal side, he was a descendant of William Foreman, a planter of Maryland, who came from London to Annapolis in 1675. On his mother’s paternal side, he was descended from Leonard Dix, a settler of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and on the maternal side from Governor Thomas Welles.
Education
He prepared for college at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York, attended Genesee College and in his junior year entered Amherst, from which he was graduated in 1855.
Meanwhile he studied law at Warsaw, New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1858 and to the United States courts in 1862.
Career
Between these two dates he was one of the publishers of the Western New Yorker.
From 1865 to 1867 he traveled in Europe and studied languages and international law at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg.
On his return in January 1868 he was appointed by Governor Fenton as district attorney of Wyoming County, to fill a vacancy, but was elected to two terms thereafter, serving until 1875.
His success in this work led on July 1, 1881, to his designation by President Garfield, on the recommendation of Secretary Blaine, as one of the judges of the mixed tribunals.
His eight years in Egypt were eventful.
In January 1878 former President Grant arrived in Egypt on his tour of the world, and it fell to Farman’s lot to act as the General’s interpreter, to present him to the Khedive, and to accompany him on the famous voyage of the Nile, which Farman described nearly thirty years later in his Along the Nile with General Grant .
At the same time he presented to the Khedive Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, who at that time apparently considered himself an American citizen.
Farman also witnessed the riots at Alexandria in June and July 1882, and in January 1883 was designated by President Arthur as a member of the international commission organized to determine the damages to be paid by the people of Alexandria as a result of them.
During this time, Farman continued to hold his position in the courts, generally sitting one day a week.
He sent to the state department voluminous reports on agriculture, commerce, politics, and finance, many of which were published.
At his suggestion, he was directed by the department to negotiate a treaty with Egypt concerning the abolition of the slave traffic in' that country and its provinces.
This he did, and although orally agreed to, the treaty ultimately failed because of a fall of the ministry.
Farman was somewhat more successful in his negotiations for an increase in the number of American judges on the mixed tribunals, and also in securing in 1879 as a gift from the Khedive the granite obelisk known as Cleopatra’s Needle in Central Park, New York City.
He also made extensive collections of ancient coins, scarabs, bronzes, porcelains, and other antiquities, which are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
After his return from Egypt, he was engaged principally in the practise of law in Warsaw, and in the management of his own affairs, delivering occasional lectures and political speeches, and writing accounts of his Egyptian experiences.
In this connection he spent winters of 1894—1900, 1904, and 1906 in Europe.
Upon leaving college, he took an active part in politics, especially in support of John C. Fremont in 1856, delivering stump speeches in the presidential campaigns up to 1888 and serving as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in 1872.
Connections
He was married twice: first, on December 24, 1855, to Lois Parker of Madison, Ohio; second, on October 8, 1883, to Sarah Adelaide Frisbie of Galesburg. He had three children by the second marriage.