California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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LORING FARNAM is one of the former pupils of the Thacher School for Boys at Nordhoff, has 
had business connections both in the East and in the West, and is now prosperously and 
contentedly settled down as a farmer, fruit grower and stock raiser not far from the Thacher 
School which he attended as a boy.
He was born of good family in New Haven, Connecticut, January 1, 1882, a son of Dr. George B. 
Farnam. Most of his early education was acquired in a boarding school in the East, but in 1898 
he came out to California and attended the Thacher School for Boys until 1900.
Returning East he became an employe in the General Electric Company at Schenectady, New 
York, and by service in different departments beginning at the bottom, he learned many phases 
of the business in all their details, and eventually was promoted to considerable responsibilities.
In 1908 he resigned his position at Schenectady, and coming to Nordhoff bought ninety-seven 
acres near that town in 1912, and has since been active in its development. He has now 
eighteen acres planted in prunes, two acres in olives and two acres as a family orchard. His 
chief ambition now is to make a business of stock raising, and as a nucleus he owns one of the 
finest Guernsey bulls in the state and has some standard bred horses. Mr. Farnam, who is 
unmarried, is well known throughout the Ojai Valley and is an active member of the Jack Boyd 
Club of Nordhoff. He is a democrat and a member of the Episcopal Church.