FARRELL, JAMES A. ), American business man, was born in New Haven (Conn.), Feb. 15, 1863, and was educated in the public schools there. In 1889 he married Cath erine E. McDermott. At a very early age he was a labourer in a steel-wire mill, in New Haven; a little later, labourer in the mills of the Pittsburgh Wire Company; then superintendent and manager of the Oliver Steel Wire Company; later, general super intendent of the same organization; and then, general manager of the Oliver Iron and Steel Company. Following this, at Brad dock (Pa.), Farrell was employed by a wire company, which was made part of the American Steel and Wire Company in 1899, and of this consolidation Farrell was made foreign sales agent. When, in 1901, the United States Steel Corporation was organ ized, the first billion-dollar American corporation, he was chosen for the position of foreign sales agent of all subsidiaries of the company. So successful was he that in 1903 the United States Steel Products Export Company was formed to co-ordinate the foreign activities of all the subsidiary firms, with Farrell as president (1903-11). During this period he developed foreign sales to astounding figures. He was responsible for the corpo ration building a fleet of its own, in which there were in 1928 54 vessels. In 1911 he became president of the United States Steel Corporation. In 1928 he was a director of the American Bridge Company; Federal Steel Company; Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company ; Minnesota Steel Company and other sub sidiaries; and vice-president of the American Iron and Steel Institute.