Background
Farr, Finis King was born on November 11, 1870 in College Mound, Missouri, United States. Son of William Benton and Louvenia Adelaide (Holloway) Farr.
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Finis King Farr
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Bachelor of Arts and Civil Engineer, Cumberland University, Tennessee, 1889, Bachelor of Divinity, 1894. University of Chicago, 1894-1897, Master of Arts, 1911. Doctor of Divinity, Missouri Valley College, 1907.
Career
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1895. Professor Hebrew Department, Cumberland University, 1895-1909. Same chair, Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the South, Lebanon, Tennessee, 1909-1910.
Professor church history, and missions same seminary, allied with Lane Seminary, Cincannati, 1910-1913.
Professor New Testament Greek and Exegesis, 1913-1915, of Hebrew and Old Testament Literature, since 1915, and librarian, Lane Seminary Lecturer in Biblical Literature University of Cincinnati, since 1921. Author: Westminster Handbooks on the Sunday School Lessons, 1910-1913.
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Married Ethel Riley, June 5, 1901. Children: Finis King, Rosemary.
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American