New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . 266 NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. the death of his father. In 1886 he was elected to theplace on the Superior Court bench which he now fills withcredit to himself and full satisfaction to the public. In1890 he commenced the erection of the magnificent SavoyHotel, at Fifty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue, which hefinished in the spring of 1892, and leased to the SavoyHotel Company, of which corporation he is Treasurer. WILLIAM WALLACE FARMER Is the representative and leading light of the old estab-lished type founding firm of A. D.
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . 266 NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. the death of his father. In 1886 he was elected to theplace on the Superior Court bench which he now fills withcredit to himself and full satisfaction to the public. In1890 he commenced the erection of the magnificent SavoyHotel, at Fifty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue, which hefinished in the spring of 1892, and leased to the SavoyHotel Company, of which corporation he is Treasurer. WILLIAM WALLACE FARMER Is the representative and leading light of the old estab-lished type founding firm of A. D. Farmer & Son, wellknown and respected as the Old New York Type Foundry,and the bitter opponent and successful rival of the AmericanType Pounding Trust. Mr. Farmer was born in Brooklynon January 12, 1851, and educated at the Polytechnic. Hegraduated in 1868, and began his business career in hisfathers office. He served an apprenticeship of eleven. years, becoming ])roficient in every branch of the foundrybusiness, and in 1881 was taken in as junior partner. married Miss Annie Jones, of Brooklyn, in 1868,and he had one son, but the mother and child died. Hemarried again in 1888, Mamie, daughter of E. M. Knowles,a well-known banker of Wall Street. By this marriage an-other son was born, who also died young. Mr. F;irmer is asocial favorite. He belongs to the Colonial Club, theFulton Club and the Riverside Yacht Club, and he residesat the Osborne Flats, on Fifty-seventh Street. Aaron I).Iarmer, the senior member of the Old New York TypeIoundry, was born in Bolton, Tolland County, Conn., inJanuary, 1816. He was educated in the common schools,and at the early age of fourteen he came to New York. He entered Elihu Whites foundry, and worked his way upuntil he became a partner, and is now the head of the oldfirm. The history of the Farmer Type Foundry is veryinteresting. It was first established by Elihu White, atHartford, Con
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