"HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES
INDIANA"  GOODSPEED BROS.  1884

JAMES D. FARMER, born in Shawswick Township, Lawrence County, Indiana, July
21, 1821, is the eldest of three children of MICHAEL and JANE (STEVENSON)
FARMER, both natives of Grayson County, Virginia, who settled in Lawrence
County in 1821.  The father came to the wilderness with little property, but
at the time of his death was worth about $10,000.  He and wife were esteemed
citizens.  At the age of nineteen, with a limited education, our subject
began clerking in the dry goods store os SAMUEL IRWIN, Bedford, remaining
seven years, then accepting a position as clerk in the State Bank at
Bedford, continuing until the charter expired in 1854.  October 18,1849, he
married EMELINE R. RAWLINS, who bore him seven children, of whom the
following six are living:  LUCY J. (wife of A. B. TRESLER), FRANK, CHARLEY
D., E.W., EDWARD E. and ADDA, the later two being twins.   Since leaving
Bedford, Mr.Farmer has been a farmer, and now owns over 500 acres of land,
mostly well improved.  He is a prominent Republican, and an earnest exponent
of all movements to improve society.  He and wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.


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