Aaron Farnham was born on 21 February 1797, in Hampton, Windham, Connecticut, United States as the son of John Farnham and Martha A Martyn. He married Lydia Seaver on 30 April 1826, in Williamstown, Orange, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Northfield, Washington, Vermont, United States in 1850. He died in 1890, at the age of 93, and was buried in Northfield, Washington, Vermont, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
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English: habitational name from Farnham in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Essex, Suffolk, Surrey, and Yorkshire, all named from Old English fearn ‘fern’ + either hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water, a water-meadow’.
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