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Patricia Kangas Ktistes's avatar

“An interesting religious service” promised at The Reverend Farrar’s resting place. Would like to have had the minutes of such an event recorded for posterity. And did the obituary really print that he was born in the indicated year?

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John M Poltrack's avatar

1738, bad OCR from Google Lens

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Bill Niemi's avatar

My first guess was 1738, but this would have made him a Harvard graduate at 17. Is the Harvard date right?

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John M Poltrack's avatar

Mr. Farrar was born Sept, 8, 1788 according to the article.

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Bill Niemi's avatar

My guess is Rev Farrar was born in 1728.

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John M Poltrack's avatar

Article states 1738, Google lens read the 3 as an 8.

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carltoko's avatar

An interesting feat he accomplished. This said that he was born in 1788 yet graduated in 1755 from Harvard.

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John M Poltrack's avatar

1738, bad scan from Google

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