FARNSWORTH, P. J.

FARNSWORTH, EATON

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Date: 10/3/2001 at 21:31:28

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

P. J. FARNSWORTH, physician and surgeon, Sixth avenue; is a native of Burlington, Vt. ; he received his education there; he studied medicine and graduated in Vermont, in 1857; he graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the city of New York, in 1860; he came to Iowa and located in Clinton Co., and since has practiced here; only one practicing physician here now was here when he came; since 1870, he has been one of the Professors of the State University, and fills the chair of Materia Medica. Dr. Farnsworth has given much attention to geology, and has the nucleus of a fine cabinet of specimens. At the annual meeting of the State Medical Society, at Davenport, Dr. Farnsworth was appointed a delegate to the International Medical Congress, to be held in Amsterdam, Holland, in September, 1879. Dr. Farnsworth married Elizabeth D. Eaton, a native of Maine; they have one daughter-Florence.