Lysander Farrar

Lysander Farrar (May 2, 1812 – December 25, 1876) was an American lawyer and politician from Watertown, New York.

Life

He was the son of Josiah Farrar (c.1772–1824). He graduated M.A. from Union College in 1836, and became Principal of the Jamestown Academy. On August 8, 1839, he married Melissa Malvina Keyes (1820–1892), and they had five children.

Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Rochester. He was a member of the New York State Senate (28th D.) in 1862 and 1863.

Sources

• compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 443)
• by William D. Murphy (1863; pg. 64ff)
• (1836; pg. 248)
• (pg. 55)