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   JAMES FARIE, JR. One of the oldest and most prominent men in the naval stores
industry at Savannah, Mr. Farie has for more than a quarter of a century been a
resident of this city and engaged in the exportation of turpentine and rosin.
During his early career he had experience in the same business in England, and
on first coming to this country was representative of an English house dealing
in naval stores. Both the business career and the family record of Mr. Farie
have a proper place in the history of Savannah.

   James Farie, Jr., was born on the twenty-seventh of July, 1857, at Bridge of
Allan, county of Perth, Scotland, his birthplace being a well known resort in
Scotland and quite famous for its curative wafers. His parents, James and Agnes
(Liddell) Farie, of Glasgow, Scotland, and later of London, England, are both
deceased. James Farie, Sr., was originally engaged in the pottery business near
Greenock, Scotland; later, he was interested in the manufacture of shale oil
near Edinburgh. After the discovery of petroleum in America, he gave up this
business and removed to London. In his tastes and inclinations he was more of a
scientist than a business man, and he devoted considerable time to original
research, particularly in geology. He was a prominent member of and honorary
secretary for some time of the Geological Society of Glasgow, Scotland, which
city was his home for many years. He was a juror on awards in Class C in the
Glasgow Exposition of 1865-66. After his removal to London, England, he became a
member of the Geological Society of that city, and took an active interest in
various scientific subjects. The Farie family of Scotland is related to a number
of well known families of that country, among them the Reids, Hamiltons, Adamses
and Liddells.

   James Farie, Jr., received his education in the schools of Glasgow, Edinburgh
and London, and entered commercial life in the last named city. In 1881, he came
to America and took up his residence at Wilmington, North Carolina, where he was
a representative of English interests which were large distributors of
turpentine in the United Kingdom and the continent of Europe. He remained at
Wilmington two years, following which he was in Charleston, South Carolina, with
the same business connections for nearly four years and in 1886 he came to
Savannah. Since that date this city has been his home, and during this time he
has devoted his attention to the turpentine and rosin business, thus having
gained the distinction of being one of the oldest and most successful exporters
of these products in Savannah.

   On settling in Savannah he actively assisted in the reorganization of the
Young Men's Christian Association in this city and for many years was chairman
of the finance committee and treasurer and one of the board of directors and
also for several years vice president of the association. He is also a member of
the Savannah Baptist church, and served on the board of deacons of that church
for many years and also for several years as honorary secretary of the board.
Mr. Farie has been a member of the Savannah Board of Trade since 1886 and has
given many continuous years of service as one of the board of directors of that
corporation, having rendered valuable assistance throughout this period on
several of its most important Committees in connection with the naval stores
trade interests. During the earlier years of the naval stores business in
Savannah when the rosin and turpentine were exported in sail tonnage, he
chartered a large number of sailing vessels each season to move these products
to the various markets in the United Kingdom and the continent of Europe and in
this way materially assisted in building up Savannah as the leading port for the
exportation of naval stores.

   Mr. Farie in 1892 was married to Miss Mary Harris Turner, daughter of Dr.
John D. and Elmira C. (Weaver-Adams) Turner, of Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Turner was
one of the pioneers in the upbuilding of Atlanta, and at the time of his death
he was president of the Exposition Cotton Mills of that city. An interesting
fact is that Mrs. Farie, through her father, is descended in direct line from
Rev. William Turner, who was born in Scotland, not far from the home of Mr.
Farie's ancestors, in Aberdeenshire in the year 1645. He married Mary McLemore,
who was born in the same shire in 1650. On account of the persecution of the
covenanters, he fled from Scotland with his young bride and settled in the north
of Ireland. Persecution followed him, and he with his co-believers, who composed
quite a colony, came to America in 1680, and settled in Worcester county,
Maryland, not far from Snow Hill. His descendant, Zadoc Turner, who was the
ancestor of Dr. Turner of Atlanta, immigrated with his family in 1793 to the
state of Georgia. They left Chesapeake Bay on a sailing vessel, and after a
rough and stormy voyage were driven by strong winds to the West Indian Islands,
and finally landed in Savannah. One of Zadoc Turner's daughters died on the
voyage, and would have been buried at sea but for the strong objections made by
her brothers. Instead, her body was placed in a cedar chest and preserved until
the vessel reached Savannah, where she was buried in the colonial cemetery. From
Savannah the Turner family took boats on the Savannah river for Augusta, whence
they crossed the country and settled in Hancock county east of the Oconee river
soon after the Indians had been removed to the west. They settled at Mount Zion
and took up land and cleared it and began planting. They were pioneers of that
section of the state.

   Zadoc Turner was a strong character. He was a soldier in the Continental army
of the Revolutionary war, belonging to the Second Maryland Regiment, and took
part in the battles of Brandy wine and Trenton, and in the compaigns around New
York and Philadelphia. He was also at Valley Forge, and with the Continental
army until the surrender of the British at Yorktown. Zadoc Turner died in 1820.

   Mr. and Mrs. Farie are the parents of two children: Cynthia Farie, born in
1895, and James Gilbert Farie, born in 1898.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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