Background
Farson, James Negley was born on May 14, 1890 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of Enoch and Grace (Negley) Farson.
Farson, James Negley was born on May 14, 1890 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of Enoch and Grace (Negley) Farson.
He was educated at Andover and read civil engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
A renowned fisherman, Farson wrote one of the classics of fishing literature, Going Fishing. The story of his life is told in his two volumes of autobiography: The Way Of a Transgressor and A Mirror for Narcissus. He was expelled from this institution and emigrated to England.
He went into journalism and travelled to Russia, being present in Petrograd the day the Bolshevik Revolution broke out.
Farson went on to become one of the most renowned foreign correspondents of his day, interviewing Gandhi in India, witnessing Gandhi"s arrest in Poona, witnessing bank-robber John Dillinger"s naked body in the morgue just after he had been shot down by Hoover"s men, and meeting Hitler, who described Farson"s blond son, Daniel, as a "good Aryan boy". He died on December 13, 1960 in London, England.
Member London Association American Newspaper Correspondents, (president 1933-1934), Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Beta. Club: Savage (London).
Married Eve Stoker, September 22, 1920.