Mary Noyes Farr

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Mary Noyes Farr
A middle-aged white woman with her hair in an updo, and curly bangs
Mary Noyes Farr, from an 1895 publication
Born
Mary Ella Noyes

1853
Landaff, New Hampshire
DiedJanuary 1, 1938
Pierre, South Dakota
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Physician, suffragist, educator, clubwoman
RelativesAmos C. Noyes (uncle)

Mary Ella Noyes Farr (1853—January 1, 1938) was an American osteopathic physician, educator, clubwoman, and suffragist, based in Pierre, South Dakota.

Early life and education[edit]

Mary Ella Noyes was born in 1853, in Landaff, New Hampshire, the daughter of Rufus H. Noyes and Patience Gordon Hall Noyes. Pennsylvania politician and timberman Amos C. Noyes was her uncle.[1] She attended Philena McKeen's school in Andover, Massachusetts. She taught school as a young woman, in New Hampshire, Iowa, and Washington, D.C.[2]

Career[edit]

Farr moved to Dakota Territory with her husband and her younger brother Frank in 1882.[2] She ran a millinery business in Harrold, Dakota Territory. After 1889, Farr had an art studio in Pierre, South Dakota and taught art at Pierre University. She worked on South Dakota's contribution to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.[2][1] In 1895 she was one of South Dakota's delegates to the National Education Association meeting in Denver.[citation needed]

In 1899, Farr graduated from the Boston Institute of Osteopathy and became an osteopathic doctor.[3] She served on the state board of osteopathic medicine, and lobbied for state legislation related to osteopathy.[4][5][6]

A large home, photographed on a snowy day.
Farr House, the home of E. P. Farr and Mary Noyes Farr in Pierre, South Dakota.

Farr was a clubwoman, active in the Federation of Women's Clubs and the temperance movement. In 1903, she was elected national senior vice president of the Woman's Relief Corps.[7] She was Grand Matron of the South Dakota Order of the Eastern Star in 1905 and 1906.[8][9] In 1915, she went to the South Dakota legislature to petition in favor of women's suffrage.[10] After the nineteenth amendment passed extending American women the right to vote, she was involved in the Pierre chapter of the League of Women Voters. In 1924, she was a candidate for the position of sergeant-at-arms in the South Dakota State Senate.[11]

Personal life[edit]

Mary Noyes married fellow Vermonter Col. Edward P. Farr,[12] a banker and Civil War veteran,[13] in 1882.[2] They lived in Farr House, which is now a historic site in Pierre.[14] She was widowed when Farr died in 1923, and she died in 1938, aged 83 years, in Pierre.[15][16]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Mrs. Mary Ella Farr". World's Columbian Exposition Illustrated. 3: 284. December 1893.
  2. ^ a b c d New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State ... New Hampshire Publishing Company. 1895. p. 47.
  3. ^ "Graduates of the B.I.O." (PDF). The Boston Osteopath. 4. September 1901.
  4. ^ "Farr House | Historic Places". Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  5. ^ "Dr. Farr Re-appointed Secretary". The Osteopathic Physician. 15: 13. April 1909.
  6. ^ "It is S. D. and not N. D. That Got a New Board". The Osteopathic Physician. 11: 3. March 1907.
  7. ^ Woman's Relief Corps (U S. ) National Convention (1903). Journal of the National Convention of the Woman's Relief Corps. E.B. Stillings. pp. 216, 284.
  8. ^ "South Dakota". The Eastern Star. 19: 13. June 1906.
  9. ^ "Local News Notes". Pierre Weekly Free Press. 1906-06-14. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-05-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Anthony, Susan B.; Gage, Matilda; Blatch, Harriot Stanton; Harper, Ida H. (2017-03-09). The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions). e-artnow. ISBN 978-80-268-7476-8.
  11. ^ "Aged Woman May Keep Order in S. D. Senate". Argus-Leader. 1924-12-20. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-05-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Goodspeed, Weston Arthur (1904). The Province and the States: A History of the Province of Louisiana Under France and Spain, and of the Territories and States of the United States Formed Therefrom. Western Historical Association. pp. 239–240.
  13. ^ Haynes, Edwin Mortimer (1870). A History of the Tenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, with Biographical Sketches of the Officers who Fell in Battle: And a Complete Roster of All the Officers and Men Connected with it ... p. 158.
  14. ^ "Farr House--Pierre, South Dakota: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary". National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  15. ^ "Mary Noyes Farr Funeral Tuesday". Argus-Leader. 1938-01-03. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-05-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Prominent Dakota Lodge Woman Dies". Sioux City Journal. 1938-01-04. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-05-21 – via Newspapers.com.

External links[edit]

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