Viewing Charles Wells Farnham (1867-1931).

Charles Wells Farnham (1867-1931).

The reputation of Charles Wells Farnham during the first three decades of the last century transcended the bar. While he was active in the county and state bar associations, and was an expert in insurance law, he also was an informal library consultant, advising St. Paul clubs on building their libraries. He was an avid book-collector, who gave readings from the works of James Whitcomb Riley and Theodore Roosevelt.

Charles Wells Farnham died suddenly in April 1931, a few weeks shy of his sixty-fourth year. The following year, the Memorial Committee of the Ramsey County Bar Association recalled that a few of the authors of the books he collected became friends and visited him in St. Paul: "Perhaps no one in this section has been host to more notable visitors than was he."

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