Nathan Allen Farwell, President of the Maine Senate in 1863, served in that body in 1853, 1854 and 1862 as well.
He was a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1861 and 1864 as well as being a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Baltimore in 1864.
Appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Pitt Fessenden, he served as a member of the United States Senate from October 1864 until March of 1865 at which time he returned to his business in Rockland and was not a candidate for reelection.
Farwell was born in Unity, Maine on February 24, 1812. He attended public school and taught in the school system before moving to East Thomaston in 1834 to engage, rather successfully, in the manufacture of lime and the building of ships.
He subsequently became a master mariner and trader. Also sometime during this period Farwell studied law but was never admitted to the bar, moving instead to Rockland where he founded the Rockland Marine Insurance Company serving as its President.
He died in Rockland on December 9, 1893 at the age of eighty-one.