. Contemporary American biography . Erasing £Z44^-{%^-, CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 139 ELBERT E. FARMAN. Hon. Elbert Eli Farman, , formerly United States Agent and Consul-General atCairo and late Judge of the Mixed Tribunals of Egypt, was born at New Haven, OswegoCo., N. Y., April 23d, 1831. In the early part of the eighteenth century a planter,named Joseph Foreman, lived upon his estates, near Bodkin Point, on the Chesapeake Bay,between Annapolis and the present city of Baltimore. His father William and his grand-father Eobert had lived at the same place, the latter being
. Contemporary American biography . Erasing £Z44^-{%^-, CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 139 ELBERT E. FARMAN. Hon. Elbert Eli Farman, , formerly United States Agent and Consul-General atCairo and late Judge of the Mixed Tribunals of Egypt, was born at New Haven, OswegoCo., N. Y., April 23d, 1831. In the early part of the eighteenth century a planter,named Joseph Foreman, lived upon his estates, near Bodkin Point, on the Chesapeake Bay,between Annapolis and the present city of Baltimore. His father William and his grand-father Eobert had lived at the same place, the latter being one of the earliest planters in thatpart of Maryland. Joseph was born October 17th, 1699, and died May 6th, 1753. His youngestson, John, was born September 16th, 1739, and at the age of sixteen entered the English armyas a volunteer for the French War. He reached Canada by the way of the Hudson, theMohawk, Oswego, and Lake Ontario. In 1763, having served under Wolfe at the storming ofQuebec and remained in the army eight years, h
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