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FRANK JOSEPH FARR
An identification with the east dating back to his earliest recollections and affectionately deepened through the
bonds of an ancestral association with colonial history met with an abrupt termination when Mr. Farr was brought
west by his parents in very early life. Born at Westmoreland, Cheshire county, N. H., March 1, 1853, he was a son
of David E. and Louisa B. (Pierce) Farr, both natives of New Hampshire and descendants of early settlers of that
commonwealth. Possessed of an adventurous temperament, the father had become interested in tales concerning the
discovery of gold in California and had arranged his affairs in the east with a view to settling on the Pacific
coast. However, after he and his family had started on their long journey and had covered a considerable distance,
news came to them concerning the Mountain Meadow massacre. The harrowing story of suffering, privation, anguish
and death so affected the prospective Argonaut that he retraced his steps as far as Independence, Mo., where he
established a home for the family The town was very small, but he earned a livelihood by dint of assiduous labor
and until his death about 1873 he remained quietly in that town with the exception of the period of his service
in the army during the Civil war. For many years he was survived by his wife, who was a native of Keene, Cheshire
county, N. H., and died in Missouri in 1889.
Upon completing the studies of the common schools and entering upon the task of earning a livelihood, Frank Joseph
Farr embarked in the occupation of an apiarist and this he has continued up to the present time. While still a
resident of Missouri he married in 1879 Miss Imogene Warren, who was born in New York City, March 1, 1854, being
a daughter of Charles B. and Ann C. (Gaskell) Warren, natives of New Jersey. Her father, who was born August 16,
1818, followed the westward tide of migration and identified himself with the material upbuilding of Missouri.
Eventually in 1887 he came to California and in this state he died January 31, 1889. His wife was born January
27, 1820, and died April 12, 1901. The eldest son and only surviving child of Frank Joseph and Imogene Farr is
Charles E., born at Independence, Mo., in 1881, and educated in Southern California schools. By his marriage to
Retta A. Boyd, a native of Indiana, he is the father of three children; the family reside at East San Gabriel in
this state. The two younger children in the Farr family were Walter, born in Missouri in 1884 and died in infancy;
and Stella May, born in Los Angeles in 1886 and removed by death from the home at the age of five years.
Seven years after his marriage Mr. Farr brought his family to California and settled in Los Angeles county, where
he established an apiary. A residence of six years in the same location was followed by a sojourn of one year in
Utah, from which state he came to Elsinore, his present home and business headquarters. Five different yards, from
three to five miles out of town, are utilized for his bees. At this writing he has about seven hundred stands,
a fair yield from which would be sixty seven thousand two hundred pounds. When an abundance of moisture causes
flowers, plants and vegetation to flourish, the expense of the bees is nominal, but during seasons of prolonged
drought it is necessary to give special care to these diminutive manufacturers of honey and in the course of one
of these dry years Mr. Farr fed to the bees four thousand pounds of sugar. The care of the apiary requires all
of his time and leaves him no leisure for participation in fraternal affairs or in politics, yet he is always ready
to support measures for the material or educational upbuilding of his home town and has proved a progressive citizen
during the ten years of his association with the locality.
From:
History of Riverside County, California
With a Biographical Review
History by Elmer Wallace Holmes
And other well known writers
Historic Record Company
Los Angeles, California 1912
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