page_title: Farmington, Missouri
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Farmington, Missouri / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: 1909 Ramly baseball card of Barney Pelty.
context_page_description: Farmington is a city in St. Francois County located about 75 miles southwest of St. Louis in the Lead Belt region in Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 16,240. It is the county seat of St. Francois County. Farmington was established in 1822 as Murphy's Settlement, named for William Murphy of Kentucky, who first visited the site in 1798. When St. Francois County was organized, the town was briefly called St. Francois Court House and later renamed to Farmington.
context_section_description: Jake Arrieta, Major League Baseball pitcher
  Herbert Asbury, writer, was born in Farmington. He later published a controversial chapter about a prostitute from Farmington in Up From Methodism, which was seen as a liability for The American Mercury
  Ed Blaine, former NFL player
  Jesse McI. Carter, United States Army Major General in World War I
  Walter Lewis Hensley, US Representative
  Andrew Conway Ivy, physiologist
  Lloyd McBride, labor leader
  James Robinson McCormick, US Representative
  Greggory Nations, writer and co-producer of Lost TV series, also affiliated with the series Bates Motel
  Dan Peek, founding member of the band America, lived in Farmington from 1978 until his death in 2011
  Barney Pelty, Major League Baseball pitcher
  Kyle Richardson, NFL punter, member of Super Bowl XXXV champion Baltimore Ravens
  Charles E. Sebastian, Mayor of Los Angeles
  Alex White, professional mixed martial artist in UFC
  J. Ernest Wilkins Sr., attorney, civil rights advocate, labor leader, and undersecretary of labor in the Eisenhower administration
  Robert Moore Williams, writer
  Eric L. Wallen, Social Worker, writer
caption: Barney Pelty
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