Shasta County CA Archives Biographies.....Farhner, J. G. 1846 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co.

J. G. FARHNER, one of the business men of Redding, California, was born in
Pennsylvania, June 16, 1848. His parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Rohm) Farhner,
were both of German ancestry, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of
Pennsylvania. Grandfather Farhner and grandfather Jacob Rohm emigrated from
Germany to this country. The subject of this sketch is the oldest son and third
child of a family of ten children, seven of whom are now living. He was educated
in Illinois, and learned the trade of carriage and wagon-maker in Missouri, to
which State his father had moved.

  April 14, 1876, Mr. Farhner came to California and settled at Shasta. He
carried on business there for four years; then removed to Redding and conducted
a wagon and carriage-making business and also undertaking. In 1882 he was
elected Coroner and Administrator of the County, on the Democratic ticket. In
1888 he purchased a furniture store. The latter part of that year he was one of
the organizers of the Redding Planing Mill Company, which he is now running, and
in connection with it is doing contracting and building. He has erected most of
the best buildings in the city, including the following: Good Templars' Hall, I.
O. O. F. Hall, Golden Eagle Hotel, McCormick & Saeltzer's store, and the Bank of
Northern California. He is an Odd Fellow, a member of the Encampment of the K.
of P., and a member of the A. O. U. W. He is also a member of the G. A. K.,
having served in the Fifty-eighth Illinois Infantry under General A. J. Smith.

  Mr. Farhner was married in 1872, to Miss Amanda Lovina Lockridge, a native of
Illinois. They have four children, the first born in Missouri, and the others in
California, viz.: Lora, Myrta, Ambrose and Emory. Mr. Farhner has built himself
a comfortable home, in which he resides with his family. By his fellow-citizens
he is regarded as an active business man, full of push and energy.


Additional Comments:
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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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