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UPSHUR COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Valerie & Tommy Crook
vfcrook@earthlink.net
July 16, 2000
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 511-512
Upshur
FRENCH M. FARNSWORTH is a doctor of dental surgery,
carrying on a successful practice at Buckhannon. He is a
son of Dr. F. F. Farnsworth, one of the officials of the
State Health Department at Charleston.
French Farnsworth was born at Holly Grove in Upshur
County, August 11, 1891, son of F. F. and Lasora (Martin)
Farnsworth. His father was born at Buckhannon, April 2,
1869, and his mother, at Holly Grove, November 25, 1868.
Dr. F. F. Farnsworth was reared at Buckhannon, is a gradu-
ate of Union College and the Maryland Medical College,
and has had a highly successful career both in his profession
and in educational and public affairs. He practiced nine
years at French Creek in Upshur County, West Virginia.
Altogether he devoted seventeen years to teaching and
school administration, being superintendent of the Buck-
hannon schools from 1900 to 1903. For several years he has
been director of the Bureau of Venereal Diseases under the
State Health Department at Charleston. Doctor Farns-
worth is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; is a
master Mason and a prominent republican. He was a mem-
ber of the Legislature in the session of 1913, and for three
years was president of the State Board of Health, being
appointed by Governor Hatfield. Dr. F. F. Farnsworth has
four children: Dr. French M.; L. E., station agent at
Clay Court House, West Virginia; Ora, a graduate of the
Charleston High School and now employed in the Public
Health Department at Charleston; and Dorsy A., who is a
graduate of the Charleston High School and a student in
the Indiana Dental College.
French M. Farnsworth was reared at French Creek,
finished his literary education in the Glenville Normal
School, and in 1912 graduated from the Baltimore College
of Dental Surgery. For the past ten years he has enjoyed
a large practice as a dentist at Buckhannon, and is a mem-
ber in good standing of the Monongahela Valley State and
National Dental societies. He is a stockholder in several
business enterprises in Buckhannon.
On August 4, 1913, Doctor Farnsworth married Edna
Bunten, a graduate of Shepherd College. They have one
son, Neil B., born June 18, 1918. Doctor and Mrs. Farns-
worth are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
he has served on the official board. In Masonry he is
affiliated with Franklin Lodge No. 7, A. F. and A. M.,
Upshur Chapter No. 34, R. A. M., Buckhannon Commandery
No. 25, K. T., and in the Scottish Rite is affiliated with
Mizpah Lodge of Perfection No. 5 and the Knights of the
Rose Croix No. 5 at Clarksburg. Both he and Mrs. Farns-
worth are members of the Eastern Star.
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