James M. Farr
James Marion Farr was an American university professor and academic administrator. Farr was a native of South Carolina, and earned bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees before beginning his career as a professor of English language and literature. He was the interim president of the University of Florida from 1927 until 1928, and also served as the universitys first vice president from 1905 to 1934.
Farr was born in Union, South Carolina in 1874. He was the son of a Confederate infantry captain who had returned home from fighting in the Civil War to become a planter and banker. His mother died when he was two years old, and he was raised by his father and maternal grandmother. His earliest vivid memories were his mothers death and a parade of the Red Shirts. Farr attended public and private schools until he entered the South Carolina Military Academy in 1889. He received an honorable discharge from the academy in 1890, and, thereafter, continued his studies at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. While he was a student, he became a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity . Farr earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Davidson in 1894 and was the salutatorian of his class. He subsequently earned his Master of Arts degree from Davidson in 1895. He entered the English doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in the fall of 1895, wrote a dissertat
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