FARWELL, Samuel, contractor, born about 1800" died in Saginaw, Michigan, 17 November 1875. He was a resident of Utica, New York, and was known throughout the United States for fifty years as a contractor for the building of public works. He began work on the Erie Canal in 1825, completed contracts for the slack water navigation in Lehigh River in 1835, the Croton aqueduct in 1838, and afterward constructed the Boston waterworks. Subsequently he engaged in railroad building, and executed extensive contracts for the New York and Erie railway, the Great Western railway of Canada, the Utica and Black River railroad, and the Flint and Pere Marquette railway, of which last he was vice president and the principal shareholder. He also built the Brooklyn waterworks.