Francis P. Farquhar

Francis Peloubet Farquhar was an American mountaineer, environmentalist and author in addition to his career as a Certified Public Accountant.

Farquhar was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of David Webber Farquhar and Grace Thaxter Peloubet . He attended Harvard University, where he edited The Harvard Crimson for three years and studied under, among others, Bliss Perry and George Santayana. Graduating from Harvard in 1909, he came to San Francisco in 1910, where he worked for a publisher and began a lifelong interest in fine printing. He visited Yosemite and joined the Sierra Club in 1911. He then returned to New England to pursue the profession of accounting, studying under Clinton Scovell, a pioneer in the field of cost accounting.

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