Hannibal Historical Society Highlights Amos Farnham

HANNIBAL – On December 4, the Hannibal Historical Society will meet at 6 p.m. for a business meeting.

Friends and members welcome.

Following this meeting, Lowell Newvine, Hannibal Town and Village Historian and Hannibal Historical Society Historian, will present a program detailing the life of Amos W. Farnham.

Farnham was a sojourner and world traveler who traveled south after the Civil War to educate emanicipated blacks.

Later, he became a professor at the Oswego Normal School.

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