Show THE FAMILY OF AGED LORIN FARE OF he has children grandchildren and great grandchildren two brothers bring total to I 1 M V Y s i i from salt lake telegram K I 1 r statistics I 1 lorin fair had whoa 6 chidden Ch idren 39 grandchildren great grandchildren SS total descendants of aaron and enoch farr f grand total it is on record that the chief executive of the nation took particular pains to show his esteem for an iowa man who aa the father of nine boys the man from iowa is plainly out classed by many of the utah pioneers gome of whom would populate a whole county in four generations there lives in ogden today a roan lorin farr by name who haaf strong opinions upon the question of a citizen duty to bis country by rearing and educating a large family and who ha not hesitated to put his cherished theory into REARED A MIGHTY FAMILY tit la ahe father of twenty sons and nineteen daughters he has grandchildren and fifty six children ilia living descendants today number approximately souls of his thirty nine children thirty are yet living eighteen sons and twelve daughters all are strong healthy and vigorous none has been an invalid not naf has made a failure in his or her line of business they arc prosperous farmers merchants lawyers and doctors the girls have married into every station and all have large families of their own every profession and trade is represented by mr barrs farrs descendants all of these children have been educated and given a start in life by air farr had all of them lived to roan hood and womanhood he feela that there would have been none too many and he declares that he felt the loss of the few that died in childhood as keenly as would the father of a small family HAS TWO STURDY BROTHERS mr farr has two brothers enoch and allan these two men 85 and 80 years old respectively have between them 33 children and descendants all living tim makes the total number of descendants ts of these three brothers souls and it is the intention of the farr brothers to meet the prudent here and introduce him to these descendants as an argument that the human race is reproducing itself v first estimate of the number of descendants of these three sturdy brothers as made from talks with members of tho family gives a total of but revised figures cut this total to although mr farr is now 81 years of ago he moves look acta and talks like a man twenty yearn younger while liis hair and beard are white with the snows of time he attends to his varied business interests takes long journeys walks four or five miles any time the desire seizes and in general confines his habits of life to those customary with men of middle age SAYS ROOSEVELT IS RIGHT president roosevelt is right exactly rightly declared the aged man in the most earnest manner when asked his opinion of the presidents ices on race suicide and large families the first the greatest commandment said mr farr is to multiply and replenish the earth the highest duty of every citizen is to perpetuate his race 1 I give a cent for a man he exclaimed dropping his for the moment who was not worthy of and atho did not desire having hia name perpetuated and how will a mans name go down to posterity he queried unless ho raises a family i but said mr farr in response to a question there is more than the religious eido to this question it is a mans duty to his country to hia S atlon fo add to the roll of food citizens j I 1 US IDEA OF citizenship lie paused a moment a faraway far away look as of one busy with memories of the dim past came into his cyca and then said j the best citizen the greatest pa 1 ariot triot is he who loving the institutions of hi country and obeying its laws at the same time brings into the world and educates the greatest number of men and women who follow hia example do you agaid alie interviewer that president roosevelt ig right in his statement aliat the tendency of alic times h toward few children or none at all that h certainly true was the reply 1 I know many many men and women who do not want children instead they want the pleasures of society he pronounced it vassiety sassi ety upon liis subject the aged man was and he continued too much social pleasure weakens the elements of mother and father love I 1 consider this certain it comes from a false standard of life and pleasure it is my experience exper ienco that the alies get the highest enjoyment from social intercourse within their own family circle SHIRK A SACRED DUTY the people who to become parents arc never satisfied they are seeking a pleasure they cannot and because they are shirking their most BI acied duty let me tell you tell you this ho declared in his post solemn manner i the man or woman who h afraid or unwilling to lake the responsibility of becoming a good parent ia not fit to discharge the other duties of citizen chip the husband who wilfully and knowingly neglects to perpetuate lis race i not a good man and I 1 would not shake handa with him as a brother A short time ago I 1 was reading about this new yorker named pentecost who attacked president vica a on the race question and who said the presidents ideal citizen seems to be rt jackrabbit jack rabbit pentecost h a dangerous danger oua crank his theories put into application would soon result in the extinction of the race he would haie only rich and well to do rear children and he would have only one or two children in each family if the poor had no children there would soon be no rich THE DANGERS OF CHILDHOOD you sec it is thia way A large number of the people born into the world cannot survive the dangers and aise aies or infancy and childhood others are being constantly killed by accident othera are incapable of becoming parents others through misfortune never marry if only two children were born into every home rich or poor alike the population of the world would rapidly grow less the president ia exactly right on the score of big families and hell find his opinions sustained by all good citizens of party almost ill true no ble minded men and women want large families some can have none at all I 1 am sorry for them small families are better than none at all but I 1 do not believe anthem in them suppose you have 0 no or two children and you lose them through disease or accident cheh if you are old how will you lineage be perpetuated the nun who does hi duty to his god iiii country and himself should bring into the world care for and edu the largest family he h able to FAMILY statistics so far as mr farr can remember alio statistics of hla family follow lorin farr was bora in wa tc rford at july 27 1820 he married nancy chiase january 1 1843 sarah giles july 20 1851 olive A jones february 28 1852 mary H freeman december 2 1854 nickaline Nicka linc erickson january 29 1857 cara J bate march 8 1901 nancy chase farr bore him enoch born december 28 1845 juha born april 1 1847 sarah born april 30 1849 tirzah born slay 3 1852 lorin born february 21 t eara born february 21 1854 newton born slay 31 1836 diantha born april 5 1858 diana born april 5 1858 isabel born april 3 1861 mary bom october sarah giles farr bore ainu joseph born august 7 1852 thomas born march 16 1854 marcus bom april 2 1856 sarah maria born march 30 1858 roxana born february 3 1860 IVin slow born may rachel born september 2 1804 leonard born march 22 hiram born february 15 1870 olive A jones farr boro him labertus La ertus lorn june 23 1853 velasco born 20 1855 olive born august 3 1857 ellen born october 25 1859 merlin born february 4 david born april 3 1864 asael born october 17 mary B freeman farr was a widow with three email children elijah mary and alma at the time of her marriage to mr farr she bore him willard torn july 5 1858 born march 14 1850 isaac born may 23 nickolina Nick olinc erickson fair bore him loranzo born october 25 1858 laura born april 10 1861 john born january 4 1863 dianora EI anora born april elij ah bom december 28 mary born march 22 1870 clara jane bates farr whom he married at the ae of 81 died june 18 1902 without issue mr farr is a remarkable old man and his family is the lareal when the living grandchildren and great grand children are considered in tho world there are others who have had more children but none that could compare with him in point 0 f number of descendants ants COMPILED BY the descendants of lorin arr and his first wife nancy chiase are given 60 ar as known jn tho table printed elsewhere the record of the grandchildren and great of his other wives i still more incomplete but here aro statistics prepared by a fon f on of lorin barr second cifes children joseph thorn as sarah romans winslow rachel hiram leonora joseph 12 children 4 thomas 7 children 7 children marchi 5 children ll osana 2 children whitlow 7 children rachel 4 children leonora 7 children third cifes children labertus La ertus valos co olive ellen merlin david asael Laer lui 7 children david 4 children asael 4 children olive ellen and marlin died in fourth cifes children elijah mary alma hillird WilL ird erastus isaac mary fi children 7 grandchildren willard 6 children isaac 7 children erasing is dead alic families of tho others arc not known fifth cifes children lorenzo laura john elanora elijah liry lorenzo 7 children laura 4 children john 8 children elanora 0 children mary 3 children elijah h |