Newspaper: The Californian, dated Sept 16 1848
In this town, on Thursday morning, 13th inst., of intermittent fever, Thomas Jefferson Farnham, attorney at law, aged about 42 years. With much regret we record the death of Mr. Farnham; who was a native of the State of Maine, but had resided for some time in the state of New York, where he left a, wife and three children. He emigrated to Oregon in the year 1837, thence to the Sandwich Islands, and from thence to California. He arrived here in 1840, at the time Messrs. Graham and party, consisting of about thirty American residents, had been arrested and sent to Mexico for trial, charged with treason by Alvarardo, then Governor. Mr. Farnham, not satisfied with seeing his fellow man bound in fetters and sacrificed without good cause, immediately repaired to Mexico, and by his interposition, and at the expense of his private fortune, succeeded in liberating the party who would otherwise have been condemned to die. In his profession he ranked among the best. Later he returned to New York in 1842, and after publishing a work descriptive of California, came back again in 1844, and up to the time of his death presented many evidences of his usefulness and integrity of character His name will long be remembered.
Married to Elizabeth Wood Burhans in Tazewell Co. Ill.
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio), 5 Dec 1848, p3:
THOMAS J. FARNHAM, author of Life in California, and husband of the late matron of Sing Sing, died at San Francisco, Sept. 13.
In this town, on Thursday morning, 13th inst., of intermittent fever, Thomas Jefferson Farnham, attorney at law, aged about 42 years. With much regret we record the death of Mr. Farnham; who was a native of the State of Maine, but had resided for some time in the state of New York, where he left a, wife and three children. He emigrated to Oregon in the year 1837, thence to the Sandwich Islands, and from thence to California. He arrived here in 1840, at the time Messrs. Graham and party, consisting of about thirty American residents, had been arrested and sent to Mexico for trial, charged with treason by Alvarardo, then Governor. Mr. Farnham, not satisfied with seeing his fellow man bound in fetters and sacrificed without good cause, immediately repaired to Mexico, and by his interposition, and at the expense of his private fortune, succeeded in liberating the party who would otherwise have been condemned to die. In his profession he ranked among the best. Later he returned to New York in 1842, and after publishing a work descriptive of California, came back again in 1844, and up to the time of his death presented many evidences of his usefulness and integrity of character His name will long be remembered.
Married to Elizabeth Wood Burhans in Tazewell Co. Ill.
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio), 5 Dec 1848, p3:
THOMAS J. FARNHAM, author of Life in California, and husband of the late matron of Sing Sing, died at San Francisco, Sept. 13.
Newspaper: The Californian, dated Sept 16 1848
In this town, on Thursday morning, 13th inst., of intermittent fever, Thomas Jefferson Farnham, attorney at law, aged about 42 years. With much regret we record the death of Mr. Farnham; who was a native of the State of Maine, but had resided for some time in the state of New York, where he left a, wife and three children. He emigrated to Oregon in the year 1837, thence to the Sandwich Islands, and from thence to California. He arrived here in 1840, at the time Messrs. Graham and party, consisting of about thirty American residents, had been arrested and sent to Mexico for trial, charged with treason by Alvarardo, then Governor. Mr. Farnham, not satisfied with seeing his fellow man bound in fetters and sacrificed without good cause, immediately repaired to Mexico, and by his interposition, and at the expense of his private fortune, succeeded in liberating the party who would otherwise have been condemned to die. In his profession he ranked among the best. Later he returned to New York in 1842, and after publishing a work descriptive of California, came back again in 1844, and up to the time of his death presented many evidences of his usefulness and integrity of character His name will long be remembered.
Married to Elizabeth Wood Burhans in Tazewell Co. Ill.
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio), 5 Dec 1848, p3:
THOMAS J. FARNHAM, author of Life in California, and husband of the late matron of Sing Sing, died at San Francisco, Sept. 13.
In this town, on Thursday morning, 13th inst., of intermittent fever, Thomas Jefferson Farnham, attorney at law, aged about 42 years. With much regret we record the death of Mr. Farnham; who was a native of the State of Maine, but had resided for some time in the state of New York, where he left a, wife and three children. He emigrated to Oregon in the year 1837, thence to the Sandwich Islands, and from thence to California. He arrived here in 1840, at the time Messrs. Graham and party, consisting of about thirty American residents, had been arrested and sent to Mexico for trial, charged with treason by Alvarardo, then Governor. Mr. Farnham, not satisfied with seeing his fellow man bound in fetters and sacrificed without good cause, immediately repaired to Mexico, and by his interposition, and at the expense of his private fortune, succeeded in liberating the party who would otherwise have been condemned to die. In his profession he ranked among the best. Later he returned to New York in 1842, and after publishing a work descriptive of California, came back again in 1844, and up to the time of his death presented many evidences of his usefulness and integrity of character His name will long be remembered.
Married to Elizabeth Wood Burhans in Tazewell Co. Ill.
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio), 5 Dec 1848, p3:
THOMAS J. FARNHAM, author of Life in California, and husband of the late matron of Sing Sing, died at San Francisco, Sept. 13.
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