Harry Webb Farrington

Harry Webb Farrington was an American author, poet, hymn writer, preacher, soldier, and educator. He was an orphan who lived in Baltimore, Maryland, Bel Air, Maryland, and Darlington, Maryland. He is famous still as being a member of the Darlington United Methodist Church and witnessing the great revivals of the late 1890s. The story of his life comes from one of his books, Kilts to Togs Orphan Adventures . He is also the author of Cher Ami , Rough and Brown, Walls of America , and Roosevelt the Righteous . He also wrote Poems from France in 1920.

Harry Webb Farrington was born on July 14, 1879 in Nassau, Bahamas. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland shortly thereafter. According to one of his best sellers, Kilts to Togs, he moved to Bel Air, Maryland but only lived there for a short time. When he was ten years old, he moved again to a small, quaint little hamlet northeast of Bel Air, to Darlington, Maryland and lived with the Windolphs. He was raised in the Darlington United Methodist Church and was converted during the revivals of 1895 to 1897 under the direction of Elmer Lodia Dutton.

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