BIO: Henry FARNUM, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 348.
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  FARNUM, HENRY, was born in the city of Philadelphia in the year 1845.  
He is the son of Henry and Caroline Farnum, formerly of Province, R. I.  
His father was a prominent wholesale dry goods merchant in that city.  
Mr. Farnum received his education in this country and abroad.  He 
passed several years of his life on a farm in New York State and also 
in Lancaster county, Pa.  He was a bookkeeper at Mount Home furnace, 
Lancaster county, for five years, and then went to Philadelphia as 
clerk in the Philadelphia Bank.  Later he was employed as assistant to 
the manager of the Philadelphia Bank Clearing House.  In 1869 he 
drifted to Kansas for his health and remained there seven years.  He 
was employed in the railroad business, during which time he was eastern 
passenger agent of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway in New York 
City.  He was also connected with the Missouri Pacific railway and 
latterly with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway, with 
headquarters in Philadelphia.  Three years ago he took charge of the 
office of the Harrisburg Real Estate Title Company while they were 
completing their work in this city.  Last fall he formed a partnership 
with W. J. George in purchasing The News and has since been actively 
engaged in the management of that paper with his partner.  Mr. Farnum's 
excellent business qualities have added largely to place The News where 
it is to-day.  Mr. Farnum is a cordial and genial gentleman and well 
known all over the United States, particularly in railroad circles.  In 
Masonic circles he is a veteran.  He is a member of Union Lodge, No. 
121, of Philadelphia, and of Weidle Chapter, of Lebanon, Pa.