Background
Patrick Farrelly (father of John Wilson Farrelly) was born in Ireland.
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Patrick Farrelly (father of John Wilson Farrelly) was born in Ireland.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar July 11, 1803, and commenced practice in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
He immigrated to the United States in 1798. He served in the War of 1812 as a major of militia. Farrelly was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, and was reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and served until his death in Meadville in 1826.
Interment in Greendale Cemetery.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1811 and 1812. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1820.