István Farkas de Boldogfa finished his studies of law on June 25, 1901, in the Franz Joseph University of Cluj-Napoca (Hungarian: Kolozsvár).

He had a strong hand controlling the cleanness of the public establishments and areas of the city and the district, what gain him a good name and respect among the locals.

[6] During the First World War, in 1917, the great alimentary crisis allowed several merchants a sellers to increase the prices of the food and products on the local markets.

From his first marriage with Erzsébet Persay de Persa three children were born; among them was Endre Farkas de Boldogfa (1908–1994), Major of the General Staff of the Hungarian Armies during World War II, who married the daughter of a member from a wealthy Hungarian family of the Budapest's Bourgeoisie, the Gobelin tapestry artist Klára Lenz (1924–2013).

Her maternal grandparents were Kálmán Forintos de Forintosháza (1834–1903), deputy-noble judge (Hungarian: alszolgabíró), landowner, and the noble lady Johanna Schöen von Liebingen (1838–1921).