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unusual facts about Leonard J. Farwell


Don A. J. Upham

Upham was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1851, but lost by less than one percent of the vote to Leonard J. Farwell, the Whig candidate.


Hobart Chatfield-Taylor

He graduated from Cornell University in 1886, and in 1890 married Rose Farwell, daughter of former United States Senator Charles B. Farwell.

Jeremiah Henry Murphy

In 1882, Murphy again ran for Congress, challenging a freshman incumbent Republican, Sewall S. Farwell.

John V. Le Moyne

He successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Charles B. Farwell to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from May 6, 1876, to March 3, 1877.

Leonard J. Fick

He also authored a book on the German stigmatic, Therese Neumann, "What about Therese Neumann: A concise background for and analysis of the critical reception accorded Hilda C. Graef's the case of Therese Neumann," The Newman Press, 1951 ASIN, B0007H5KMO In November 1988, Fick authored the definitive history of the Pontifical College Josephinum, The Jessing Legacy, 1888-1988: A Centennial History of the Pontifical College Josephinum.

As late as 2007, one former Fick student reported that next to his bedside table was Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman and the first Swede to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1909.

Leonard J. Marcus

Additionally, he serves on the faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.


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