Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Farquharson, John R. 1837 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOHN R. FARQUHARSON. This true-hearted and intelligent Scotchman who has made
his home in Montrose Township, Genesee County, left his native land in June,
1837, and landed in New York, from which port he at once proceeded West and
arrived in Saginaw County, this State, about the first of September, the same
year. His voyage across the Atlantic was taken in a two-masted brig, being two
months and two days on the way from Dundee to New York. He was then but fourteen
years old and he was accompanied by three sisters, as his mother had died in
Scotland and his father, John Farquharson, had come to this country with his
son, James, some seven years previous and in Montrose Township spent the
remainder of his life.

  When our subject reached Michigan he made his home with his father in Saginaw
County for some eight years and then came to Montrose Township which was then
known as Vienna Township, and here he has made his home since 1845. He was born
in Farfarshire, Scotland, in June, 1822, and throughout life has devoted himself
to agriculture. His fine landed property comprises between three and four
hundred acres in Genesee and Saginaw Counties and upon his farm he has erected
excellent buildings and made extensive improvements and now has more than half
of his land under cultivation.

  Mr. Farquharson was married in Saginaw County to Eliza Hough, a native of
England and she was taken from her happy home by death in March, 1880, leaving
to her husband a legacy of seven children, viz.: Jane, who died in 1880, at the
age of twenty-four; Jessie, is now the wife of George McKenzie; Katie died at
the age of twenty-three; Eliza, John, James and one who died in infancy. The
father and mother of this family were members of the Presbyterian Church and for
many years he has acted as Elder in that religious body. To his children he has
given excellent opportunities for an education and he is training them to lives
of Christian usefulness.

  Our subject has for nine successive years been the Clerk of Montrose Township,
and for a period of time has been School Assessor. In his political views he
finds himself in sympathy with the Democratic party. His beautiful home and
barns at once attract the eye of every passerby and win his admiration, for they
show undoubted marks of a prudent and thrifty farmer and a generous provider.


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Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892

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