Russel Farnham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American explorer
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1784
Place of Birth: Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 23-Oct-1832
Profession: explorer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Russel Farnham
- Russel Farnham (1784 – October 23, 1832) was an American frontiersman, explorer, and fur trader.
- An agent of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, he oversaw fur trading in the Great Lakes region throughout the 1810s and 1820s.
- A member of the Pacific Fur Company headed by Wilson P.
- Hunt during 1810–1812, he is also the first American to semi-circumnavigate the world traveling by foot from Fort Astoria (now Astoria, Oregon) to St.
- Petersburg, Russia, to New York City.
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