Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-05
uEHRY FAHNAm

An honored citizen, whose physical pres- ence, 20 gracious in It's simple dignity, was itself bensdictiou-a noble man whom none who knew couid fail to love-has passed away By kind providence, his closing days were for the most part free from pain. His friends were spared the anguish of seeing him suffer, him whose heart was always tsnderIy alive with sympathy for others and quick to devise means for their relief. It was Che privilege of the writer of these paragraphs to spend with him portion of the evening previous to the attack of illness which proved fatal. The same benignity and gentleness, the same unaffected, genial courtesy, which always marked his manner, attended him to the end
 MT. Farnana was man of strong under standing His intelligence was quick and penetrating He seized on the main points of any question that engaged bis attention. Not born to aff1uence, but obliged in early life to earn his own livelihood, he, neverthe- less, ayailed himself to the full of the means of intellectual improvement within his reach. Passages of good authors, like Cowper, whom he had read in his earlier days, he rs- teinad in memory. In an important degree he made himself what hs was. His pros perity was his own achievement. It was due to his own manly energy, enterprise, per severance and uprightness. But he had none of the faults and foibles that are con- rnonly attributed to self made men. No one could be more unafectedly modest. A self respect, never obtrusiTely manifested, bus serving as au effActual shield against aggression, accompanied that uniform consideration and regard for others which were inbred h his character. He honorsd learning end institutions of learning. He in- duleed in "reminiscences of his own honorable career without the least appearance of self. Battery, and no farther than was natural to a man who was looking back In 8 season of repose upon the events of a successful and him into close acquaintance with various in dividuals of uncommon powers of mind like James Hillhouse. They had known how to value his worth, and he in turn took pleas ure in recalling his intercourse with them. For the public men of former day, especial Iy for Webster, the men whom he had heard and admired, he had an enthusiastic, yet dis eliminating admiration.
 large minded man, Mir. Farnsm was marked out for large undertakings. A work like that which he accomplished in conjunc- tion with Mr. Sheffield, of connecting Chicago and the interior cities with the Mississippi by 6 railway, was congenial not only with the business taste and capacity, but, also, wish the generous patriotic sentiments which distinguished him. It need not be said that in all his enterprises he was governed by an integrity that could never be tempted to in- Aiot wrong. He instantly turned aside from every schsme, however enticing from pscu- niary point of view, the moment he saw in 1t the least taint of fraud. To enrich himself at the cost of other men or of his country, would have given him no sensation of pleas- ure. He might have added vast aums to his worldly store, and, probably, without in- curing serious public reproach, had he been less scrupulous in his judgment as to what strict honesty demands of business men,
 MT. Farnam has stood in this community for years as an example of benefesnce. It
 was unostentatious bsnefoenOe. It embraced the entire circle of his kinsfolk. But there
 it did not stop. It extended to public
 institutions of education and charity, and to
 families and individuals without number who
 were in need. His generous gifts flowed out
 In an almost incessant stream One of his
 very last acts was the procuring of drafts to
 be sent to persons et 3 distance whom he
 wished to help. This was on the afternoon
 just previous to his prostratioR by illness.
 But there was no day of his life whom death
 would not have surprised him in the act of
 doing good to his fellow men. Giving, in
 the case of Mir. Farnam, fulfilled it's idea.
 It was not from vanity or for applause. It
 was not even from the pressure of 6 sense of duty, although conscience was the regulative principle to which he was habitaaliy loyal.
 ME. Farnan WAS not amenable to the censure which Poet Gin the teVision of Sir Laun- fab attaches to benevoIence springing from the constraint of obligation:
 "Hs gives nothing but worthless gold.
 Who gives from Eense of duty"
 He gave out of a heartfelt sympathy. Love
 was the animating principle. The gift seem q aI. gANAT