People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — A. G. W. FARMER. [ARTICLE]

A. G. W. FARMER.

DIRECTOR PILOT PUBLISHING COMPANY, Mr. Farmer was born in Jefferson county, East Tennessee, June 8,1837, where he resided until nineteen years old, when he moved with his parents to Wayne county, Ind. Mjss Matilda Macy, a Quaker girl, became his wife in September,

1858. They moved to Jasper county, in 18S5 and have been constant residents here ever since. Mr. Parmer has been a farmer all his life and is considered one of the most successful. Being the son of poor parents, in a slave state, his opportunities for an education were very slight, attending school only in the winter. Pine knots furnished the light by which he studied at night. (And by the way, pine knots make about as fine a light as there is going.) Mr.JFarmer is now living in Milroy township but, having purchased a farm in Marion, will soon move to his new home. Mr. and Mrs. Farmer have been blessed with nine children, six of whome are living; Mary A., died in infancy: Charley E., died at nineteen; Clarence R., died at nine; Orpha M., vie of. Warren W. Sage; Della, wife of John W. Sage; May C.; Albert C.; Worth W.; Henry P. Mr. Farmer is and has been an earnest worker in the church and Sabbath school for thirty-five years, and believes that they who fail to honor God and bless humanity with their work here, will be failures in the end and Rad as well not live at all.