Background
Farmer, Thomas Harris was born on February 20, 1861 in Weakley Company, Tennessee, United States. Son of Thomas M. and Sarah Jane (Lovelace) Farmer.
banker merchant philanthropist
Farmer, Thomas Harris was born on February 20, 1861 in Weakley Company, Tennessee, United States. Son of Thomas M. and Sarah Jane (Lovelace) Farmer.
Education high school, Como, and Southwestern Baptist U.
Began in grist and sawmill business, at Martin, Tennessee, 1881. An organizer Bank of Martin, 1886, later cashier and president Also organizer Farmers & Merchants Bank of Como and The Peoples Bank.
President of latter, 1909-1926.
An organizer Lovelace-Farmer Wholesale Grocery Company, of which was general manager 22 years. Active in temperance work and has given over 100 gold medals to contestants in schools and colleges.
A leader in building Hall-Moody College, later president Director National Drainage Congress. Deep Waterways Congress.
Member Baptist Church since 1877 and deacon over 40 years Speaker on educational, religious and financial subjects, also writer prose and verse.
Married Lena Stevens, of Paducah, Kentucky, November 28, 1882. Children: George East., Mistress Marybelle Teachout, Thomas H., Harris Holland (deceased), Janie Leigh (deceased).