| J. R. Farrow was born October 28, 1846, in North Carolina, and is the
son of Perry and C. (Ruffin) Farrow, both born in North Carolina, in 1818,
and died in 1878 and 1879 respectively. His father labored under many disadvantages;
was a bound boy from eight years to twenty-one years of age. He then served
an apprenticeship for two years at the tailor trade, after which he immigrated
to Tennessee in 1849, located at Alamo or Cageville, where he lived until
the day of his death. He owned about 1,300 acres of land, besides valuable
personal property. Our subject assisted his parents on the farm till he
was about seventeen years of age, after which he entered the merchandise
business as salesman. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Farrow entered the Kentucky
University at Lexington and graduated in the Bible class at the age of
twenty-five. He entered the university with the intention of studying for
the Christian ministry and entered into the regular work in 1872, which
he continued very successfully till 1885, at which time he gave up the
ministry on account of ill health. He was married December 31, 1879, to
Mosie N. Robertson, daughter of Moses and Naomie L. Robertson. To our subject
and wife was born one child, who died in infancy. Our subject is a good
citizen and a man of influence in this section. He is a demitted member
of the Masonic order and also a member of the I.O.O.F. He is politically
a Democrat, and is strictly a prohibitionist. Our subject is now in very
delicate health, and spends his winters in Florida, where he has a very
fine orange grove of about fourteen acres valued at about $4,000.
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