Francis P. Farquhar was a certified public accountant, historian, mountaineer and conservationist. He was born and raised in Newton, Massachusetts and later graduated from Harvard with a degree in accounting. Farquhar then moved to San Francisco where he received his accounting certification and learned cost accounting from Clinton H. Scovelle. With this knowledge, he became a cost accountant in the Navy during WWI. Following the war, he was an accountant for the National Parks Service (1919-22) and was also involved in working for the enlargement of Sequoia National Park. Farquhar was the Sierra Club director from 1924 to 1951 and edited the Sierra Club Bulletin from 1925 to 1946. He was also a part of the American Alpine Journal and had an interest in fine printing in the Bay Area. In this interview, Farquhar discusses his early jobs, development of the accounting profession, mountaineering in the Sierras, Hetch Hetchy, Early leaders of the Sierra Club, Stephen Mather the Director of National Parks, Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall, and his personal history. This interview also contains an appended interview conducted by Farquhar in 1958 with Edward DeWitt Taylor (1871-1962) who was a San Francisco printer. They discuss painting, San Francisco writers and printers, Edward Robeson Taylor, and the work of Taylor and Taylor. The second appended interview conducted by Farquhar was with Ansel F. Hall, a Yosemite National Park ranger in 1958 about his experiences in the Sierra Nevada, career in the NPS since 1921, and boyhood memories of Yosemite.