DuPage County IL Archives News.....Eugene W Farrar, First White Child Born in Du Page County, Dies 1921
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Journal Of IL State Historical Society, Vol 14 1921
Eugene W. Farrar, first white child born in Dupage County, Illinois, died in 
Downers Grove Monday, July 25, 1921, his home was only two blocks from the 
site of his log cabin birthplace. He was born July 24, 1835, and his life has 
been spent in Downers Grove. He served in the Civil War as a Sergeant in the 
Thirteenth Illinois Infantry. He married Martha J. Carpenter in Downers Grove 
in 1866, and she survives him, with their four sons and two daughters.

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Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Published Quarterly 
by the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April-
July, 1921 No. 1-2.

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