Mary Ireland Farnsworth

First Lady of West Virginia
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IntroFirst Lady of West Virginia
wasFirst Lady
Work fieldPolitics
Gender
Female
Birth30 May 1830, Upshur County, West Virginia, U.S.A.
Death22 February 1923 (aged 92 years)
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Biography

Mary Ireland Farnsworth (1830–1923) was the wife of former Governor of West Virginia Daniel D. T. Farnsworth and served as that state's First Lady, 1869. She was born on May 1, 1830, at Upshur County, West Virginia, a niece of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. She married Daniel D. T. Farnsworth. She holds the distinction of serving only five days as first lady; her husband completed the unexpired term of Arthur I. Boreman, who had resigned to enter the United States Senate. After leaving office, the Farnsworths moved to Buckhannon, West Virginia. She died on February 22, 1923.

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