Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-10-07
Resolutions Of the Fay.
etteville Bar on the
Death Of Gen. r.
E'drQuharSOn.

the Hon. John Z. Steele was re-
quested to act as Chairman and
Geo. B. Boyles as Secretary.
The object of the meeting being
explained, Messrs. John NJ. Bright,
j. IL. Burnam and James w. New
man were, on motion, appointed a
committee 10 draw up resolutions
expressive of the sense of the
meeting. The committee report
ed the following preamble and res
olutions, which were unanimously
adopted, viz:
1t has become our painful duty
to announce that on the 26th inst,
at his residence in this place,
General r. Farquharson, Clerk
and Master of this Court, depar-
ted this life. His disease was
sudden in its attack, rapid in its
progress, and his unexpected de
mise impaired a shock TO the COM
munity. We do not propose in a
brief notice of the deceased to per-
vert or corrupt any of the iacts of
history by exaggerating their i'm
portance, or pronouncing an over
wrought eulogy on his memory.
A brief biographical statistic
must suffice for the present.
He was born on the l4th day OF
September, 1913, in the county of
Bauff in the North OF Scotland; in
1927 he immigrated to the United
States resided a few years in
Nashville; about the month of
May, 1880, he located in Fayette-
vile, which place he made his
home until his death. His first
employment was a clerk in the
mercantile house of VIM. Akin &
Co.; afterwards became merchant
and conducted a house for several
years with success. He was sue
cesSively elected Major, Colonel,
and Major General of Militia, in.
which he took much pride; in 1889
he was elected a Representative
from Lincoln county, to the pop
ular branch of our State Legisla-
ture, where he took position as a
man of talent and high business
qualification, at the same time re-
presenting his constituents with
fidelity.
In 1916 he volunteered for a
twelve months service in the Mex
lean war; was elected Major of the
1st Tennessee Regiment, of which
Gen. VIM. B. Campbell was cleo
ted Colonel. While leading a
detachment Of the End Tennessee
Regiment in siorming the heights
of Cerro Gordo, he was severely
wounded. He returned home in
lS47, worn down aid enfeebled
with disease and his wounds. He
was appointed Clerk and Master
|of the Chancery Court at this
place in 1874. In 1849, he organ
lied company and went the over
land route to California in search
of gold; in the early part of 1851,
he returned, and the same year
was elected Representative of the
popular branch OF our State Leg
islature, and was a jealous advo-
cate of the compromise measures
of 1850. In 1858, President Pierce
appointed him Secretary of Wash
ington Territory on the Pacific;
his appointment was confirmed
by the Senate, but he declined
to accep. In 1852 he was elected
State Senator from the counties
of Lincoln and Franklin. In
1854 he was reappointed Clerk
and Master of this county, as the
successor of Col. John S. Fulton,
continuing in Office until the fall
of 1861 and through the recent
civil war. In the fall of 1861 he
volunteered in the Southern cause,
and was elected Colonel Of the 4lst
Tennessee Regiment, in which he
served with gallantry, until he
was worn down with hard SER
vice and disease, when he was re-
tired from the field service, and
served in other capacities until
the close Of the war.
On his return at the close of the
war, he was reappointed Clerk
and Master of the Chancery Court
by His Honor Chancellor Steele,
and continued to discharge the
duties of the office until his death
with great ability, as we'll as with
characteristic integrity and fdel-
ity.
The loss, spoliation and confu-
sion of the papers and records be-
longing to bis Office during the
war-and the still greater confu-
sion produced by the introduce
ton of a war currency into the at.
fairs of his office, imposed extraor-
binary duties and burdens npon
him, and put his capacity to an
test-and it was even
that he could stagger
under them. But it seemed that
there WAS no husiness skein which /