This contains a transcription of the Charles A. Farrar of Troy, NH biography from Biographical Review Volume XXIII: Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cheshire and Hillsboro Counties, New Hampshire, Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, 1897.
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CHARLES A. FARRAR, of Troy, is the manufacturer of a popular gold and silver polish. He was born in Fitzwilliam, April 24, 1844, son of Daniel M. and Sophronia (Keith) Farrar. His grandfather, Daniel Farrar, was a native of Troy, owned a farm in the southern part of the town, and died at the age of seventy-five years. Daniel M. Farrar, son of Daniel, was a butcher at Fitzwilliam for twenty years, and supplied meat to Fitzwilliam and Troy. Late in life he built the house now occupied by his son, Charles A. In company with E. P. Kimball he purchased a mill; and, afterward buying out his partner, he manufactured tubs exclusively until his last illness. He died March 28, 1870, at the age of fifty-five years. By his wife, Sophronia, he had four children—Daniel W., John L., Charles A., and Abbie L.
Charles A. Farrar, the sole survivor of his parents’ family, was educated at Troy while living in the family of his uncle Leonard. Afterward he was a butcher in Fitzwilliam for a time. Then he worked in his father’s mill until the death of the latter in 1870, when he took sole charge of the business. The factory is now devoted to the making of silica, a polish for gold and silver ware, and which is also used as a tooth-powder. It is sold in small packages. The mill turns out about twenty tons of this article annually.
On April 6, 1865, Mr. Farrar married Charlotte E. Bemis, daughter of Sumner Bemis, of Troy. She was born April 29, 1845. They have five children, as follows: Mary A., born March 11, 1866; Leonard A., born September 28, 1869; Fred J., born July 28, 1871; Nellie I., born October 28, 1875; and Lottie B., born June 10, 1877. Mary married Fred W. Fuller, of Westmoreland. Leonard married May Frances Bennett, and is the station agent at Malden on the Boston & Maine Railroad. They have one child—Leonard C., born November 13, 1895. Fred J. married Ida Fuller, and resides in Troy. Lottie has taught school in Troy as an assistant teacher, and her sister Nellie is a book-keeper for the blanket company. Mr. Farrar was a Selectman in 1869. In politics he is a Democrat.