Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Farr, Asahel 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    DR. ASAHEL FARR, physician and surgeon, and proprietor of "Union Drug
Store;" is a native of Waterford, Caledonia Co., Vt.; he was fitted for college
at Phillips' Academy, in Danville, Vt., and is a graduate of Dartmouth College;
received his degree from the medical department in 1846; he commenced practice
at Johnsville, Vt., and came to Kenosha April 15, 1854, and, from that time, has
been engaged in his profession here, adding the drug-business to it for a period
of seventeen years. Dr. Farr was a member of the Assembly in 1872, and of the
Senate in 1876; he was, for several years, President of the Board of Education,
and seven years Mayor of the city. The Doctor owns a farm of 317 acres at
Pleasant Prairie, generally known as the Morgan Farm.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)

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