Farber, Daniel L., 1906-1998
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Farber, Daniel L., 1906-1998
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Farber, Daniel L., 1906-1998
Farber, Daniel, 1909-
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Daniel Farber was a business executive, civic leader, philanthropist, and a renowned photographer from Worcester, Massachusetts. His parents were Rose Barksy and Louis Farber. He married twice, to Juanita Dill and Jessie Lie, and had two sons. He was an executive in a business founded by his father, L. Farber Co., which supplied shoe insoles and leather shoe welting. He became interested in early American tombstones and was a founding member and a president of the Association for Gravestone Studies. Farber was noted for his photography, both of early gravestones and of nature; he exhibited his photos in numerous museums, including the Smithsonian. Farber published some of his photos in a book entitled Reflections on a Trail Taken. Farber was a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Worcester Art Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and other civic organizations. He donated land to Worcester for recreation areas and supported a desert reclamation project in Niger. He died in Worcester on May 23, 1998.
Businessman and photographer, of Worcester, Mass.
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