Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Farmer DDS, Dr Thornton F. 1832 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 170
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Dr Thornton F Farmer, DDS, is a native of Fayette county, Penna.  He was
reared on a farm and attended the public schools.  At the age of twenty
one he went to Meadville and studied at Allegheny College.  In 1863 he
began the study of dentistry with Dr George Morris of Morgantown, West
Virginia, and in the winter of 1871 was graduated at the Philadelphia
Dental College.  In the fall of 1872 he came to Uniontown and commenced
the practice of his profession, where he has since resided, and has
established a large and lucrative practice.
    He is the oldest practitioner in Uniontown, and has kept abreast with
his profession in every department, having all of the improved
instruments and appliance belonging to the art.
    He was married in 1862 to Miss Emily Ross of German township.  She died
in 1875, leaving one child, Hattie R Farmer, who died May 20, 1878.  
    He married a second time in 1876 to Nannie G Hopwood of Monroe, this
county; she died in 1880 leaving two children: Hattie R Farmer and Gaddis
H Farmer.  Gaddis H Farmer died May 16, 1889, at the age of nine years.
    Dr Farmer married a third time in 1881 to Maggie L McIllree, the
daughter of Henry and Louesil McIllree of Fayette county; by this wife he
has three children: Thornton F Farmer, Ulysses Simpson Farmer, and Lou
Byron Farmer.  
    Dr Farmer is the son of Daniel Farmer and Mary Ann Gray Farmer, both
natives of Maryland, who came to the county in 1813.  Their tout to
Fayette county was across the mountains by the road made by General (then
Major) Washington in his advance to Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh, in the
French and Indian War.  
    They first settled near New Salem, but afterward in Springhill
township-now Nicholson-where they died.  Dr Farmer's father died March 10,
1865, in the seventy fifty year of his age.  His mother died in September,
1878, in the eighty third year of her age.
    Dr Farmer has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for thirty
five years, and a local preacher for twenty years, and has creditably
filled many of the pulpits in the county, as well as in West Virginia.  In
his father's family were ten children, seven girls and three boys: John G
Farmer, the oldest, was born in 1811.  He was a fine mathematician, and at
his death in 1879, he was the oldest and most successful surveyor in the
county.  A B Farmer was the youngest child, born 5th day of April, 1834.
When the War of the Rebellion broke out, he enlisted in Captain George
Gilmore's company.  Much of his time was spent among the bushwhackers of
West Virginia, where many of the boys in blue were killed and sleep in
far off graves.  A B Farmer has been a citizen of Indianapolis for many
years.  

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