When Wilber Leo Farr was born on 18 June 1885, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, his father, Wilbur H Farr, was 30 and his mother, Margaret McDivitt, was 31. He married Sarah Olga Andrews on 4 December 1906, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Polk, Iowa, United States in 1905 and Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States in 1910. He died on 22 January 1932, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Keithsburg, Mercer, Illinois, United States.
English: from Middle English fear(r), farre (Old English fearr) ‘steer, ox’, applied as a nickname for a fierce man or a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept a bull.
German: nickname from Middle High German varne, var, with the same meaning as 1 above.
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