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John Farmer was born at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, the eldest son of John and Lydia (Richardson) Farmer and seventh in descent from John Farmer whose widow Isabella came to New England in 1769.
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JOHN FARMER
Edit ProfileEducation
In his native town he attended a private school kept by the Rev. H. Packard.
He attended school, when business was dull, and also studied medicine with a local physician, but his slender physique discouraged him from entering the profession.
These studies won him recognition among scholars, and in 1822 he received an honorary degree of M. A. from Dartmouth College.
Career
In 1803 his parents moved to Lyndeboro, New Hampshire, and soon afterward John went to work in a store in Amherst, New Hampshire. In 1810, and for a few years thereafter, he taught school, an employment in which he excelled. His keenest interest, however, was in genealogy and in local history. In 1821 Farmer moved to Concord, New Hampshire, where he formed a business connection with Dr. Samuel Morril and opened an apothecary store. From this vocation he acquired the title of “Doctor. ” In the American Quarterly Register Farmer published sketches of early graduates of Dartmouth College, 1771-83; a list of the graduates of all the colleges in New England; and memoirs of the ministers who graduated at Harvard before 1657. In the last year or two of his life he was appointed by the legislature to examine, arrange, and index the state papers at Concord. This difficult task he performed admirably.
He was deeply interested in the formation of the New Hampshire Historical Society in 1823, and was its corresponding secretary from 1825 until his death in 1838.
Achievements
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His hours of leisure were devoted to the study of New Hampshire annals and New England genealogy, and he produced a number of books in rapid succession. In conjmiction with Jacob B. Moore he published A Gascteer of the State of New Hampshire (1823), and Collections, Historical and Miscellaneous (3 vols. , 1822 - 24). Of ah these works the Genealogical Register is the most important, and it is significant that James Savage used it as the basis for his Genealogical Dictionary.
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The History of New-Hampshire
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Memorials of the Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Commencing with the First Class, MDCXLII
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A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register; Volume 03
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An Historical Sketch of Amherst, in the County of Hillsborough, in New-Hampshire, from the First Settlement to the Present Period
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An Historical Memoir of Billerica, in Massachusetts
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Religion
He was highly religious and thoroughly orthodox in his belief.
Politics
The cause of antislavery took a deep hold upon him and he was for a number of years corresponding secretary of the New Hampshire Anti-slavery Society.
Personality
Farmer was of average height, erect and extremely thin. In spite of his very uncertain health there was an animated cheerfulness in his whole aspect.
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