From History of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin - 1881, Volume 1, Page 548

PROF. CHARLES S. FARRAR, A.M., President of Milwaukee College, was born in August, 1826, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.  He fitted for college at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., and entered Amherst College in the Fall of 1846.  At the beginning of the Sophomore year he entered Dartmouth College, graduating in the class of 1850.  After graduation he studied law two years with Judge B. F. THOMAS, of Worcester, Mass., and then accepted the principalship of the Gilmanton Academy, N. H., which position he retained three years.  In 1856 he was called to the Chair of Physics and Astronomy in the Elmira Female College, in Chemung County, New York, where he remained until 1863.  In 1852 he was married to Frances E. WORCESTER, of Hollis, New Hampshire, who died in the Spring of 1863, leaving four daughters; the oldest, Ellen, is the teacher of Latin Language and Literature in the Milwaukee College.  In 1863 he resigned his position at Elmira College and entered the service of the Trustees of Vassar College then in process of establishinment.  He was engaged two years in superintending the building of the observatory, in equipping it with instruments, and in arranging and furnishing the Departments of Physics and Chemistry.  On the opening of Vassar College in 1865, he took the Chair of Chemistry and Physics.  This position he retained until 1874.  In 1872 he was married to Miss Sarah W. HARRIS, of Poughkeepsie, New York.  During the last seven years of his professorship at Vassar, he was also agent of the Board of Trustees as General Superintendent of the various departments of service connected with the institution.  He resigned his position at Vassar in 1874 to accept the presidency of Milwaukee College.  During his administration he has reconstructed the college curriculum and greatly popularized the institution, even to the extent of interesting the leading ladies of the city in the work of personal study, especially history  and criticism of the various departments of fine arts.

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