John L. Farrell
from Bacon, Edward Monroe. The Book of Boston: Fifty Years’ Recollections of the New England Metropolis. (Boston, 1916)
John L. Farrell was born in Dorchester, Mass, March 28, 1865. He was educated in the public schools of Boston and became associated with a New York wool concern in 1882. Three years later he returned to Boston and began business on his own account, specializing in carpet wools and acting as agent for domestic receivers of foreign carpet wools and for shippers in Turkey, Russia, France and England. His business has increased to large proportions during the thirty years he has been engaged in it, and he has commercial dealings with nearly all the users of carpet wool in this country.