"Portrait and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity, Oregon." Authors: "a compilation of this work....by a number of writers". Chapman Publishing Co; Chicago, 1903. p. 518. DEERIN FARRER The name of Deerin Farrer is not only known among the foremost agriculturists and developers of Clackamas county, but it is also enrolled among the heroes who left their homes and risked their lives for the cause of the Union during the Civil war. This esteemed citizen was born in Onondaga county, N. Y., August 17, 1842, and is a son of Franklin Farrer, who was originally a mechanic, but in later life removed to Rock county, Wis., where his death occurred October 5, 1860. He was born in Dublin, N. H., February 16, 1811. His wife, Keturah Farrer, was born in Tully, N. Y., December 10, 1819, and died June 16, 1851. Left an orphan in his youth, Deerin Farrer went to live with his brother for a year and a half, at the end of which time the country was in the throes of the Civil war. Into his otherwise uneventful life this opportunity was a welcome change and large opportunity, and with the first call to arms he enlisted in the Fourth Wisconsin battery, and was sent to Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake bay. For a year he remained in the fort, and then was sent up the James river to participate in the seven-days' battle before Richmond and Petersburg under General Grant. After three years of service he was mustered out, and thereafter returned to Wisconsin, where he engaged in farming for about a year. A later place of residence was Lesueur county, Minn., where Mr. Farrer lived and farmed until 1868, during which year he started across the plains with two ox teams. After a time spent in Portland he came out to his present farm, located one and a half miles southeast of Damascus, and consisting of eighty acres, thirty of which are cleared. Mr. Farrer is engaged in general farming and stock raising, and maintains a fair-sized dairy. While still a resident of Wisconsin Mr. Farrer was united in marriage with Alvina A. Winegar, of which union there have been born three children, Franklin F., Esther, and Luvern. Mr. Farrer has been a member of the school board of his district for a number of years, and has been road supervisor for two years. A Republican in politics, he is in religion a member of the Advent Christian Church of Portland. Transcriber's additional notes: Census 1860, June 15; Rock Co, WI; Clinton, p 240 Franklin Farrer, 49, NH, farmer, 4000 real estate/906 pers. prop. Mary A, 45, NY Washington, 23, NY Deerin, 17, NY Orson, 5, WI Adalaide Sprague, 17, WI, domestic 1870, July 18; Clackamas Co, OR; Cascade Pct, Eagle Creek PO, p 115 Deerin Farrer, 26, NY, farmer Melvina, 25, WI Franklin, 8, MN Nellie, 1/12, OR, born May next family: C.W. Farrer, 36, NY, farmer Maria, 35, MN Deerin, 12, MN Warren, 10, MN Irvin, 8, MN William, 3, OR Alice McKee, 12, MN 1880, June 18; Clackamas Co, OR; Rock Creek pct, p 196 Davon Farrar, 37, NY, NY, NY, farmer Melvina, wife, 35, WI, NY, NY Franklin, son, 12, MN, NY, WI Ester, dau, 10, OR, NY, WI Luvirne, dau, 5, OR, NY, WI William Winager, fa-in-law, 58, NY, NY, IRE Ester Winager, mo-in-law, 57, NY, OR, -- James E. Winager, br-in-law, 16, MN, NY, NY 1900, July 5; Clackamas Co, OR; Damascus pct, p 71 Deerin Farrer, 57, Aug 1842, NY, NY, --, mar 34 yrs, farmer Melvina, wife, 55, Dec 1844, WI, NY, NY, mar 34 yrs, 3 children-3 living Franklin, son, 32, Aug 1867, MN, NY, WI, single, day laborer Esther, dau, 30, May 1870, OR, NY, WI, single 1910, April 20; Multnomah Co, OR; Portland pct 60, p 53; 1933 E. Alder Dearin Farrer, 67, NY, PA, NY, mar 42 yrs, own income A. Melvina, wife, 65, WI, NY, NY, 3 children-3 living 1920, Jan 8; Multnomah Co, Or; Portland Pct 186, p 69; 1933 E. Alder Deerin Farrer, 77, NY, PA, NY, no occ. Abigal M, wife, 75, WI, NY, NY Mary L. White, dau, 44, Or, NY, WI, Wd, no occ. Evelyn L, gr dau, 13, OR, NE, OR Weekly Gazette and Free Press; Janesville, Wisconsin November 23, 1860; p 8 County Court of Rock County In the matter of the estate of Franklin Farrer, deceased. On this 2nd day of October A.D. 1860, upon reading and filing the petition of Mary A. Farrer, the widow of said deceased, stating that he, late a resident of the town of Clinton, in the county of Rock and state of Wisconsin, died intestate on the 3d day of October last, and praying that she and such other persons as shall be designated on the day of hearing said petition may be appointed administrators of the estate of said deceased, it is ordered that said application be heard before the said court, at the office of the judge thereof, in the city Janesville, on the first Monday of December next, at 10 o'clock am; and it is further ordered, that notice of said application and hearing be given by publishing a copy of this order for three successive weeks, once in each week, prior to said hearing, in the Weekly Gazette and Free Press, a newspaper printed and published in said city. Amos P. Prichard, County Judge Janesville Daily Gazette; Janesville, Wisconsin May 22, 1863; p 2 County Court of Rock County In the matter of the guardianship of Dearin and Orson F. Farrer, monor heirs of Franklin Farrer, deceased. Notice is hereby given that by virtue and in purance of an order of license, made in said matter on the 20th day of April, 1863, by the above named court, the undersigned guardians, on the 13th day of June next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Mary Ann Farrer, at Clinton Junction, in the town of Clinton, in said county of Rock, will sell the respective interests of said minors, being an undivided one-fourth each in the following described real estate, situate in said town, viz; The south half of the northeast quarter of section No. twenty two (22) in township No. one (1)north of range No. fourteen east, containing eighty acres, be the same more or less. Terms of sale will be made known at the time and place of sale. Clinton, May 20, 1863 Mary Ann Farrer Guardian of Orson F. Farrer, David B. Collyer, Guardian of Deerin Farrer ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in February 2009 by Diana Smith. 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