[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He is also interested in the Broadway Insurance Company, and is one of its present directors. His home in Westchester County is situated at Croton-on-Hudson, and commands a beautiful view of the river. He married Martha J., daughter of William D. Wells, of Westerly, R. I. Their children are Harvey, Florence, Elizabeth and Jane L. Mr. Farrington's father, David Farrington, died in August, 1876. His mother, Mrs. Elizabeth, is now liv-ing with her son at Croton, at the advanced age of eighty-nine. After the opening of the railroad, steamboating be-came less profitable, and during the Civil War there was a short interval in which no steamboat— at least none of importance, — was running from Peekskill. The rates for freight and passage on the Hudson River Railroad, which had at first been moderate, during the war became excessively high. In order to rid Peekskill of the incubus of these heavy charges and establish competition against the railroad, a committee of citizens waited on Messrs. D. and T. Smith, of Nyack, and requested them to run one of their steamboats between Peekskill and New York. They agreed to do so in case they should be guar-anteed proper support. This was promised, and in the year 1865, they began running a steam-boat as requested. In 1866 they built the " Chrys-tenah," and placed her on the route. In 1879 she be-came the property of Alexander M. C. Smith, and now (1884) belongs to his estate.