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FARWELL, Nathan Allen, senator, born in Unity. Maine, 24 February 1812. He received a public school education, graduating in 1881, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began to practice in Rockland, Maine He was a member of the state senate in 1853, 1854, 1861, and 1862, serving as president in 1861, and of the lower branch of the legislature in 1860, 1863, and 1864. He was a delegate to the Baltimore National Republican convention in 1864, and in that year was appointed to the U. S. Senate as a Republican for the unexpired term of William Pitt Fessenden. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists' Convention" of 1866. He traveled in Europe from 1845 till 1847. He has been master mariner, trader, and twenty-five years president of marine insurance.
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