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Franklin Smith Farquhar
b. 1865
A journalist and novelist whose work moved from Pennsylvania to the Pacific Coast, he wrote fiction rooted in place and people, including a Pittsburgh story and the California-set novel Redwing. He was also remembered as a California historian with a long paper trail of diaries and family research.
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Edith and John: A Story of Pittsburgh
by Franklin Smith Farquhar
About the author
Born in Fayette City, Pennsylvania, in February 1865, Franklin S. Farquhar worked as a journalist and was identified in archival records as a journalist and California historian. Around April 1900, while serving as city editor of the Daily News Standard in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, he moved with his family to Montesano, Washington.
Farquhar wrote fiction as well as nonfiction. His known books include Edith and John: A Story of Pittsburgh (1912) and Redwing (1916), showing an interest in regional life and storytelling grounded in recognizable American settings.
He also left behind diaries, papers, and family research that have helped preserve details of his life and times. Based on the sources available here, he died in 1947.