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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, locating 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.