Sarah Jane Farmer: Providing a spiritual retreat

Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME | March 24, 2008 | Copyright

It should be no surprise that Sarah Jane Farmer (1847-1916) did something special during her lifetime.

Her father, Moses Gerrish Farmer (1820-1893) of Eliot, invented a fire alarm pull box, the design of which is still in use today. In 1847 he invented the first electric railway car. He was a transcendentalist, believing that his inventions were emanations from God, and, in this spirit, did not patent his inventions in his early years.

Best known for his work with electricity, Farmer had developed an electric light in 1858-1859 and illuminated his Cambridge, Mass., home with it in 1868, but ...

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