By Blair Updike Born in 1869 into a socially and politically prominent New York family, Sally James Farnham used her connections to launch a successful career as a sculptor, virtually without prior training. Sally's mother died when she was 10, leaving her in the care of her father, Colonel Edward C. James, who raised her to be robust, confident, and a bit defiant. Sally was an avid sportswoman, bragging that she “scandalized Ogdensburg (her hometown) by breaking horses on Ma