Biographical Sketch of William H. Farrar, Jefferson County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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William H. Farrar, M. D., of De Soto, is a native of Arcadia, Iron Co.,
Mo., and was born in 1856.  His father, Dr. George Farrar, is of Scotch
descent, and was born in Perry County, Mo., in 1839; he is also a phys-
ician by profession, and is a graduate of Pope Medical College, St.
Louis.  The latter moved to Iron County in 1854, and two years later
entered upon the active practice of medicine, where he has since con-
tinued as one of the influential and prominent physicians of Iron 
County.  He married Harriet P. Russell, who was a colonel in the Revo-
lutionary War.  To this union nine children were born, William H. being
the third.  He received his literary education in Arcadia College, and 
at the age of seventeen began the study of medicine under the precept-
orship of his father.  In 1872 he entered St. Louis Medical College,
from which institution he graduated in March, 1874.  In 1876 he located
at Valle's Mines, Jefferson County, and engaged in practice for two
years, at the expiration of which time he came to De Soto, where he has
since been located.  In the latter place he bought a drug store, which
he successfully conducts in connection with his large and lucrative 
practice.  He enjoys the most extensive practice of any physician of
Jefferson County, and with one exception is the oldest resident prac-
titioner of De Soto.  In December, 1877, he married Miss Maggie A. Cole
who was born in Jefferson County, Mo., in 1858.  They have one child,
Gertrude May.  The Doctor is a democrat, politically, and a member of
the A. O. U. W.

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