Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1922-01-13
EDGAR HOWARD FARRAR.


summer home in Biloxi, Miss, last
Friday, 7th of January, and was
buried in New Orleans last Sunday.
Edgar Farrar, or "Ned" Farrar, as
he was better known to Tensas parish
people, was born in st. Joseph, "
years ago, where his father, the late
Thomas p. Farrar, was a prominent
lawyer. His mother was Miss Anna
Girault, member of a prominent
family with branches in Louisiana
and Mississippi.
Ned Farrar was educated at Ma
gruder's famous High School, in Baton
Rouge, and at the University OF Vir-
ginia, where he graduated, with the
degree of Master of Arts, in 1871,
having completed the course in the
unprecedented space of three years,
a remarkable achievement and one
which could have only been accom-
plished by a man remarkable for
brain power and indefatigable in
dustry. Indeed, the. writer has been
told that this feat of taking the Mas
ter's degree at the University OF
Virginia in three years constitutes a
record in the annals of the great
school founded by Thomas jefferson
unequalled by any of Mr.. Farrars
predecessors or successors in the
student body.
With this foundation on which to
build Mr.. Farrar entered, about 1871,
the law office of that great Louisiana
lawyer, Christian Roselius, in New
Orleans, and having been admitted to
the bar, began the practice of his
profession in New Orleans. Although
not exempt, in the beginning, from
the struggles which confront al
young lawyers who begin their ca
reers in large cities, young Farrar'
great ability and learning soon be
came recognized at not only the New
Orleans bar, but throughout Louis
lana and, finally, throughout thu
United States, where his rank as
lawyer was of the highest, and hi
name came to be placed with those
of Martin, Porter, Grimes, Benjamin
Edward d. White, and Thomas J
Semmes, that galaxy Of intellectual
Reniuses which has shed undying lus
ter on the legal history Of our State
Enjoying for many years larg'
and lucrative law practice, Mr.. Far
rar by no means confined his &C
tivities to his chosen profession. II
the nature of things such man wa
compelled to take an active part IL
political life; so we are not surprised
to find him at the very thick OF
every battle where he deemed tn
welfare of his city and state wa
involved, bringing into every contes
all the force and vigor Of his splen
did physique and Incompatible mind
and freely giving of his time ant
money to the cause which had en-
listed his support. He was never
candidate for public office, nor dit
he ever hold public place, but WI
: 'sre within the mark when we sa!
that few men in the past thirt!
years have more impressed them
selves on public Affairs in Louisiana
than did this private citizen.
Mr.. Farrar married early ir lf'
Miss Lucy Stamps, grand-niece o.
jefferson Davis, and this lovely lady
with a large family Of children, sur
wives him.
And what of his character as
man? Big-bodied, big-brained ant
bie-hearted, Edgar Farrar was pos
sessed of an impetuous Temperament
which at times led him into sharI
controversies with his fellows, bu
such was the mans innate goodness
Of heart, charity and magnetism, thai
rarely did scars remain as the result
Of differences with others, his mos
bitter antagonists usually becoming
his friends when the heat Of con
flict was over.
Well may the people Of Tensa'
regret the passing away Of this hel
most distinguished son.
RED CROSS.