[1] He was a member of the Second Regiment Volunteers in the Union Army, fighting in the Civil War for four years.

[3] In California her subject matter included Pasadena area missions, pepper trees, and Indian baskets.

[4][5][3] Farr exhibited her work at the California State Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

[5] Farr died on January 5, 1907, while in Naples, Italy[5] Her work is in the Washington County Historical Society in Pennsylvania and the Littleton, New Hampshire Public Library.

[3] Media related to Ellen Frances Burpee Farr at Wikimedia Commons