Farwell, Frank E.

DOYING, HAGEMANN, LONG, LEARY

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Date: 1/5/2010 at 19:59:23

Frank E. Farwell, a leading attorney and prominent citizen of Waverly, has for the past seventeen years been engaged in the practice of law in association with Senator Fred P. Hagemann. His birth occurred in Iowa Falls, Hardin county, Iowa, on the 6th of February, 1870, his parents being William W. and Anna (Doying) Farwell, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of eastern Canada. William W. Farwell, an agriculturist by occupation, came west to Iowa about 1867, locating near Iowa Falls temporarily and subsequently taking up his abode near Alden, where he became an extensive landowner. There he continued to reside until about 1893, when he put aside the active work of the fields and moved into the town of Alden. About 1905 he went to Concord, New Hampshire, and has remained there continuously since, enjoying the evening of life in honorable retirement. His wife was called to her final rest in March, 1902. At the time of the Civil war William W. Farwell joined Company C., Thirteenth New Hammpshire Regiment, enlisting as a private for nine months' service. A wound received at the siege of Port Hudson necessitated his confinement in a hospital.

Frank E. Farwell, the third in order of birth in a family of six children, obtained his early education in a district school near Alden and subsequently pursued a commercial course at Iowa City. He next spent a year and a half at Ellsworth College of Iowa Falls and completed his preparatory course at the Iowa City Academy, from which instituion he was graduated. The following three years were spent in the mastery of the collegiate course at the State University of Iowa and on the expiration of that period he there took up the study of law, winning the degree of LL.B. in 1896. During the periods of vacation he had taught school for a number of terms and also assisted his father in the operation of the home farm. Thoroughly equipped for the practice of his chosen profession, he came to Waverly and here opened an office in partnership with Fred P. Hagemann, who had been his classmate at the university and who has remained his associate to the present time. For about six years, for 1898 until 1904,, D.A. Long was also a member of the firm. They are engaged in the general practice of law and have built up an extensive and enviable clientage. Mr. Farwell's success in a professional way affords the best evidence of his capabiltiies in this line. He is a strong advocate with the jury, and concise in his appeals before the court.
Much of the success which has attended him in his professional career is undoubtedly due to the fact that in no instance will he permit himself to go into court with a case unless he has absolute confidence in the justice of his client's cause. Basing his efforts on this principle, from which there are far too many lapses in professional ranks, it naturally follows that he seldom loses a case in whose support he is enlisted. Mr. Farwell is a stockholder and director in the State Bank of Waverly and is officially connected with the Interurban Railway. He is the owner of valuable residence proprerty in Waverly, and his prominence in local affairs is further indicated in the fact that he acts as president of the Industrial Association of Waverly.

On the 29th of September, 1902, Mr. Farwell was united in marriage to Miss Julia F. Leary, who was born in Waverly, Iowa, on the 29th of May, 1871, the fifth of the eight children of John and Julia Leary, natives of Ireland. Her father, who followed farming on the Emerald isle, has been an agriculturist of this vicinity for many years. He is now over eighty years of age and is living practically retired, making his home two miles south of Waverly. Mr. and Mrs. Farwell have one child Katherine, whose natal day was November 1, 1903.

In his political views Mr. Farwell is a republican. He attends the services of the Episcopal church and has fraternal relations with the Knights of Pythias at Waverly. He is likewise a member of the Sons of Veterans. He stands high in professional and social circles of this community and his progressive spirit and the sterling qualities of his character have won him the confidence and respect of all who know him.

History of Bremer County, Iowa Vol. II 1914