Farley, Eugene

EUGENE F. FARLEY.

  Eugene F. Farley, a well known lawyer of New Haven, was recently appointed assistant city attorney. His birth occurred on the 6th of July, 1878, in Naugatuck, New Haven county, Connecticut, his parents being James and Mary (Kelley) Farley, in whose family are five children, of whom Eugene is the third in order of birth. The mother is a native of Norwich, Connecticut, and a daughter of Richard Kelley, who was of Irish birth. The father of our subject was born in the old Bay state and is descended from an old Massachusetts family of Irish origin, several generations of the family having resided in this country. During his active business life James Farley was connected with the manufacture of pianos and for a long period of thirty-six years was in charge of a department for the Sterling Piano Company but is now living retired in Derby, Connecticut, enjoying the fruits of former toil. He came to this state about 1872. In religious faith he is a Roman Catholic and in politics is a republican. He is a man of high ideals, is quiet and unassuming and very devoted to his family.

  Eugene F. Farley received his literary education at Yale College from which he was graduated in 1900 with the degree of B. A. At the age of seventeen years he began earning his own livelihood and while in college engaged in tutoring. Later he was employed as teacher of English in the Bridgeport high school for four years and in this way provided the means for his legal education. He was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1911 and at once entered upon the practice of his chosen profession at New Haven and has met with most excellent success, now having a large and representative clientage. On July 1, 1917, he was appointed assistant city attorney and is now ably serving in that capacity.

  One the 31st of January, 1914, Mr. Farley was married in Norwich, Connecticut, to Miss Nelly A. Lyons, a native of that place. They are communicants of the Roman Catholic church, and Mr. Farley is also a member of the Knights of Columbus. In the line of his profession he is connected with the New Haven Bar Association, the Connecticut State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. The republican party finds in him a stanch supporter of its principles.
 
 


Modern History of New Haven
and 
Eastern New Haven County

Illustrated

Volume II

New York – Chicago
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 
1918

pg 727

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