William Farnham Day
William Farnham Day was born on November 11, 1821, in West Springfield, Massachusetts, to David Day. The family moved to Franklin Mills (present-day Kent), Ohio, when he was a child. He received a license to preach in 1845, and he earned a living as a minister. An early biographer described him as a “an of deep learning, a thorough master of Greek, a devoted student of history and a great lover of scientific research.”
He married Ann Delia Grover on May 19, 1847, and they had at least two children: Harriet, born around 1848; and Wilson, born around 1850. In 1860, they were living in Cleveland, Ohio. By 1870, they were living in Akron, Ohio, and they owned $2,000 of personal property. He died of Bright’s disease in Titusville, Pennsylvania, on October 23, 1882.
Image: William F. Day (Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County)
DATABASE CONTENT
| (5037) | Day, William Farnham | 1821-11-11 | 1882-10-23 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (14112) [recipient] ~ Williamson Plant to William F. Day, 11 August 1852
People - Records: 1
- (5037) Day, William Farnham is the [sibling-in-law of] (5030) Plant, Williamson
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1860 and 1870 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Ohio County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, available from Ancestry.com; Chicago (IL) Tribune, 24 October 1882; Samuel A. Lane, Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County (Akron, OH: Beacon Job Department, 1892)
