{"id":13820,"date":"2014-06-08T01:28:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T06:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=13820"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:29:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:29:28","slug":"farrar-benjamin-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/farrar-benjamin-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"FARRAR, Benjamin Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"

BENJAMIN JOSEPH FARRAR<\/strong>. One of the most extensive and successful real estate dealers of Nashville,\u00a0Benjamin Joseph FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0has here been engaged in this business for nearly half a century, a much longer period than any other man, and during the time has been prominently identified with the highest and best interests of the city. A son of\u00a0Garland FARRAR<\/strong>, he was born February 17, 1837, in Louisa county, Virginia, coming from Revolutionary stock. His paternal grandfather,\u00a0Matthew FARRAR<\/strong>, who was a farmer, and a soldier in the Revolutionary army, married a\u00a0Miss MURRELL<\/strong>, and both spent their entire lives in Virginia.<\/p>\n

Garland FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0was born in Louisa county. Virginia. July 13, 1797, and died in Fluvanna county, Virginia, March 18, 1882. He was well trained in agricultural pursuits when young, and as a tiller of the soil displayed excellent judgment and skill. Locating in Fluvanna county, Virginia, he purchased a large farm, which he operated with slave labor, living there during his remaining years. He married\u00a0Mary Lily SHEPHERD<\/strong>, who was born, July 6, 1797, in Fluvanna county, and there spent her entire life, passing away June 29, 1874. Her father,\u00a0David SHEPHERD<\/strong>, was born in Virginia, June 9, 1760, and was a life-long resident of that state, and one of its substantial farmers. He married\u00a0Mary BASKETTE<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0Polly BASKETTE<\/strong>, as she was called, and they reared several children, among whom were four sons, namely:\u00a0Benjamin A. SHEPHERD<\/strong>, who was for a number of years engaged in mercantile business in Nashville, Tennessee, from here going to Houston, in the republic of Texas, where as a banker he amassed a fortune;\u00a0Joseph SHEPHERD<\/strong>, who was likewise engaged in business in Nashville for a time, but spent his last years in Memphis;\u00a0James SHEPHERD<\/strong>, who settled first in Granville, Tennessee, but later removed to Texas; and\u00a0David Garland SHEPHERD<\/strong>, who located permanently in Granville, Tennnessee.\u00a0Garland and Mary Lilly (Shepherd) FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0reared nine children, as follows:\u00a0David S., Jennetta C., Susan G., John H., Matthew S., Sarah E., Benjamin Joseph, Thomas J.,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0George Martin<\/strong>. The four younger sons served in the Confederate army, George M. losing his life in the Seven-Days Battles around Richmond. The eldest son,\u00a0David S. FARRAR<\/strong>, was graduated from the University of Richmond, and afterwards acquired note as an educator, teaching successfully in Goochland, Virginia, and subsequently establishing a military school at Palmyra, Virginia.<\/p>\n

As a pupil of his elder brother,\u00a0Benjamin Joseph FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0attended school both in Goochland and Palmyra, and later began his independent career as a teacher in the public schools of Nelson county, Virginia. War between the states being declared while he was thus employed, he enlisted in a company of cavalry commanded by\u00a0Captain WHITEHEAD<\/strong>, an organization that became Company E, of Radford’s Rangers, being first commanded by\u00a0Colonel RADFORD<\/strong>, and later by\u00a0Colonel MUNFORD<\/strong>.\u00a0Mr. FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0was with his command in various engagements, including the Seven-Days fight around Richmond. Immediately after that battle he was captured by the Federal forces, and taken to the old Capital Prison, in Washington, District of Columbia. Exchanged at the end of three months,\u00a0Mr. FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0rejoined his command, and continued in active service for three years.<\/p>\n

In 1865\u00a0Mr. FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0came to Nashville, where his brother,\u00a0John H.<\/strong>, had embarked in mercantile business prior to the war. Soon after taking up his residence in this city, he established himself as a real estate dealer, in 1867 becoming associated with\u00a0T. P. WEAKLEY<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0W. J. ARRINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0under the firm name of Arrington, Farrar & Weakley. Building up a large and lucrative patronage,\u00a0Mr. FARRAR<\/strong>, with a change of partners, has continued in the business ever since, at the present time, in 1912, carrying on business alone.<\/p>\n

Mr. FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0has been twice married. He married first, April 5, 1867,\u00a0Miss Sarah MEGGINSON<\/strong>, daughter of\u00a0Dr. Ben Cabell MEGGINSON<\/strong>, of Nelson county, Virginia. She died in 1869, leaving one daughter,\u00a0Laura M. FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0who married\u00a0Rev. Cabell MARTIN<\/strong>, daughter of\u00a0Dr. MARTIN<\/strong>, and both she and her husband are now dead.\u00a0Mr. FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0married second, in 1872,\u00a0Mrs. Pocahontas Virginia (Megginson) CHRISTIAN<\/strong>, a daughter of\u00a0Mrs. A. M. MEGGINSON<\/strong>, and sister of\u00a0Thomas and Gen. Willis BOCOCK<\/strong>.\u00a0Mr. and Mrs. FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0have one son, namely:\u00a0Benjamin Joseph FARRAR, Jr<\/strong>., a prominent business man of Richmond, Virginia, who married\u00a0Marian De Witt WEISIGER<\/strong>\u00a0of that city, and has two children,\u00a0Nicholas De Witt<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Pocahontas Virginia<\/strong>. Religiously\u00a0Mr. FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0is a valued member of the Christian church, while\u00a0Mrs. FARRAR<\/strong>\u00a0is a communicant of the Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0Hale, Will T, and Dixon L. Merritt.\u00a0A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities<\/em>. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Company, 1913. Volume 4, pg. 867-869.<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0View his family tree at FamilySearch.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BENJAMIN JOSEPH FARRAR. One of the most extensive and successful real estate dealers of Nashville,\u00a0Benjamin Joseph FARRAR\u00a0has here been engaged in this business for nearly half a century, a much longer period than any other man, and during the time has been prominently identified with the highest and best interests of the city. A son […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,2848,4165,804,4410,4419],"tags":[4183,2534,4185,1941,2413,513,4184,1346,572,4398,4186],"class_list":{"0":"post-13820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-familysearch-family-tree","8":"category-histtennesseans","9":"category-jackson","10":"category-surname-f","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-arrington","13":"tag-baskette","14":"tag-bocock","15":"tag-christian","16":"tag-farrar","17":"tag-martin","18":"tag-megginson","19":"tag-murrell","20":"tag-shepherd","21":"tag-weakley","22":"tag-weisiger","23":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15067,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820\/revisions\/15067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}