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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        by Arthur St. Clair
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

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        BETHUEL CLINTON FARRAND, attorney at law, was born in Aurelius
     (then Auburn), Cayuga Co., N.Y., December 13, 1820.  He is the third
     son of BETHUEL FARRAND, first Judge of Probate of Washtenaw County,
     Mich., who with his family came to this State in the spring of 1825
     and located in Detroit.  In the fall of the same year, they went to
     Ann Arbor, which then comprised but ten or twelve families.  Mr.
     FARRAND received his school education there, attending for some time
     the Griffin Academy.  In 1839, he went to Detroit to study law.  He
     entered the office of Morey & Taylor - Mr. MOREY, Attorney General;
     and afterward with Jay & Porter completed his study, and was admitted
     to the bar by the Supreme Court in 1843.  During his years of study in
     Detroit, he was one of the original members of "The Kent Club," and
     framed its constitution.  Hon. GEORGE B. N. LOTHROP, Hon. ANSON
     BURLINGAME, Hon. FRED T. SIBLEY, Hon. D. BETHAM DUFFIELD were fellow-
     members at that time.  Soon after his admission to the bar, Mr. F.
     came to Palmer, the county seat of St. Clair County, and engaged in
     the practice of his profession, and after a year removed to Port
     Huron, and entered into partnership with LORENZO M. MASON.  The firm
     of MASON & FARRAND continued six years, when Mr. MASON removed to
     Detroit, and Mr. F. engaged in the lumber business.  In 1857, he re-
     sumed the practice of law, and since then has been prominently identi-
     fied with it, and is the oldest member of the bar in active practice
     in this section of the State.  He has held the office of Prosecuting
     Attorney two terms, and for a long time has been identified with the
     Pioneers' Association of St. Clair County.  Mr. FARRAND'S first wife
     was Miss LAURA W. WHITMAN, daughter of DAVID WHITMAN, one of the early
     settlers of the county, who came from Haverhill, N.H.  Their marriage
     took place November 14, 1845.  Mrs. F., much beloved and respected,
     died June 22, 1852.  They had three children, daughters, the youngest,
     SARAH, died soon after the mother.  Mr. FARRAND was united in marriage
     to Miss HELEN M. WHEATON, daughter of JOHN WHEATON, of New Haven,
     Conn., October 16, 1854.  Miss WHEATON was a principal of a young
     ladies' school in Detroit, and formerly connected with the High School
     of Hartford, Conn., and is a native of Branford, in that State.  Mrs.
     F. is prominent in literary circles in this section of the State, and
     with her originated the idea of forming the Port Huron Ladies' Library
     Association, mentioned elsewhere.  In pioneer matters, she has taken
     great interest, and was one of the Vice-Presidents at the formation of
     the State Pioneer Society.  Mr. FARRAND has four daughters and one son
     living; LAURA CAROLINE, now Mrs. SILAS L. BALLENTINE, President and
     Founder of Somerville school; MARY EMMA, HELEN M., FANNY C. and
     BETHUEL CLINTON, Jr., all of whom are now residents of St. Clair and
     Port Huron.   The name of Mr. FARRAND has long been a synonym for
     honesty and uprightness in his profession, and he is well known
     throughout the State.

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