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Roswell Farnham Diary, 1848-1849

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Creator: Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903.
Date Created: 1848-1849
Description: Roswell Farnham was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 23, 1827, the son of Roswell and Nancy Bixby Farnham. Farnham's family moved to Bradford, Vermont in 1840, and he received his education at Bradford Academy and the University of Vermont, from which he graduated in 1849. Married to Mary Elizabeth Johnson on December 25, 1849, Farnham taught school before gaining admittance to the Orange County bar in 1857. When the Civil War broke out, he entered the First Vermont Regiment with the Bradford Guards militia as a Second Lieutenant. Farnham served with distinction in both the First Vermont and the Twelfth Vermont, and left the Army in July of 1863 as a Lieutenant Colonel. Following the war, Farnham became general counsel for the Vermont Copper Company and continued to work as both lawyer and administrator of the VCC for the rest of his life. In addition, he held a number of local and state political offices culminating in his defeat of Democrat Edward J. Phelps for the governorship of Vermont in 1880. After completing a single popular term as governor, Farnham returned to his law practice. In 1889 he also became president of the newly-formed New England Company, a group of Northern investors interested in developing the coal and iron deposits of northwestern Georgia. The New England Company was never a success, and Farnham spent much of the last decade of the nineteenth century trying to save it and the VCC from bankruptcy. Badly injured in a fall in November 1898, Farnham recovered sufficiently to resume some of his work but never regained full health. Roswell Farnham died at his home in Bradford on January 5, 1903, at the age of seventy-five. Three of Farnham’s four children lived to adulthood: Charles Cyrus Farnham (1864–1937), Florence Mary Osgood (1866–1958), and William M. Farnham (1869–1927). His first child, Roswell Phelps Farnham Jr., died in infancy in 1861. Farnham was predeceased by a half-brother, Cyrus C. Farnham, in 1863. Topics in this diary include the curriculum, faculty, and student experience at UVM in the late 1840s; Burlington and neighboring towns in the late 1840s, UVM’s Lambda Iota fraternity, Zachary Taylor and the Whig Party, and teaching in Vermont and Canada in the mid-nineteenth century. Near the end of the diary are several essays written by Farnham during his senior year at UVM. Topics in these essays include religion, natural history, and King Lear.
Parent Collections: Diaries

U.V.M. Notes vol. 06 no. 01

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Created: 1909
Parent Collections: University of Vermont Alumni Publications, U.V.M. Notes

U.V.M. Notes vol. 07 no. 03

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Created: 1910, December/1911, January
Parent Collections: University of Vermont Alumni Publications, U.V.M. Notes

U.V.M. Notes vol. 09 no. 06

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Created: 1913, March
Parent Collections: University of Vermont Alumni Publications, U.V.M. Notes

The University of Vermont Alumni Magazine vol. 45 no. 02

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Created: 1964
Parent Collections: University of Vermont Alumni Publications, The University of Vermont alumni magazine, 1957-1975

The University of Vermont Alumni Magazine vol. 45 no. 04

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Created: 1965
Parent Collections: University of Vermont Alumni Publications, The University of Vermont alumni magazine, 1957-1975

The University of Vermont Alumni Magazine vol. 46 no. 02

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Created: 1965
Parent Collections: University of Vermont Alumni Publications, The University of Vermont alumni magazine, 1957-1975

Post vol. 02 no. 02

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Created: 1976
Parent Collections: University of Vermont Alumni Publications, Post, 1975-1977

The University of Vermont Alumni Magazine vol. 49 no. 01

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Created: 1968
Parent Collections: University of Vermont Alumni Publications, The University of Vermont alumni magazine, 1957-1975

The University of Vermont Alumni Magazine vol. 48 no. 02

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Created: 1967
Parent Collections: University of Vermont Alumni Publications, The University of Vermont alumni magazine, 1957-1975

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