Farr, Bertrand H.

FARR

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 10/25/2006 at 05:27:17

Farr, Bertrand H., was born october 14, 1863, at Windham, Vermont. When he was five years of age his parents moved to Wisconsin and later to Webster City, Iowa. After attending high school and seminary, mr. Farr went to Boston for two years at the new england Conservatory of Music. In 1885 he established a music business in Webster City, but later removed to Reading, Pa. In 1896 he purchased a home and garden in Wyomissing, a suburb of Reading, and began to collect varieties of peonies and irises. He soon sold the music business and devoted his entire time to the production and sale of hardy plants. Mr. Farr's wonderful work in connection with peonies and the American Peony Society is fully described in the History of the American Peony Society beginning on page 1. He was president of this Society from 1909 to 1916 and one of its Directors at the time of his death. From its formation in 1920, he was a director in the American Iris Society. He died at Wyomissing, pennsylvania, October 11, 1924. An extended obituary may be found in Bulletin No. 23 of the American Peony Society for February, 1925.

-Source: Peonies, The Manual of the American Peony Society, edited by James Boyd; published 1928 by the American Peony Society. Page 293.