Chittenden

FARR, Willis Vernon

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 186

Willis Vernon FARR, farmer, subscription agent, real estate dealer, 
Burlington [Chittenden County, Vermont], was born 05 November 1866 at 
Westminster [Windham County, Vermont], son of John Vernon and Mary Lucinda 
(WATKINS) FARR. Educated in the public schools of Westminster; Cushing 
Academy, Ashburnham [Worcester County], Massachusetts; and Vermont Academy 
Saxtons River [Windham County]. Mr. FARR spent summers on his father's farm, 
and in winter attended or taught school until he was twenty-one, when he 
engaged with the Hon. A. N. SWAIN as circulation agent for the "Bellows Falls 
Times;" later with Acme Water Filter Company, Marlboro [Essex County], 
Massachusetts, and since 1888 circulation agent for the "Burlington Free 
Press." Is interested in farms at Westminster and elsewhere. Republican; 
was nominated for secretary of state on the Prohibition ticket in 1910. 
Congregationalist. Member of Green Mountain Lodge No. 1, Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows; Sons of the American Revolution; and the Commercial Club of 
Burlington. In 1896 Mr. [Willis Vernon] FARR married [Miss?] Ethel May RUGG 
of Fairfax [Franklin County, Vermont]; they had six children: Vina Lucretia; 
John Elbridge; Mary Delphine; Robert Harland; Mattie Watkins; and Thelma 
Rugg, who is deceased.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly