Historian; researcher. Born– September 12, 1897, Montgomery. Parents– James Hunter and Sallie (Dickinson) Farrish. Education– Princeton University, B.S., 1922; Harvard University, M.A., 1926; Ph.D., 1936. Served as assistant principal Choudrant Agricultural School, 1923-1924; taught at Westminister College, 1926-1937; Director of the Department of Research and Records of Colonial Williamsburg, 1937-44. General editor, Williamsburg Historical Studies; Member of the editorial board for William and Mary Quarterly. Member of the American Antiquarian Society. Died January 16. 1945.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online;  files at Alabama Public Library Service; Alabama pioneers website.

Publication(s):

The Circuit Rider Dismounts: A Social History of Southern Methodism, 1865-1900. Richmond, Va.; Dietz Press, 1938.

Editor:

The Present State of Virginia and the College. Charlottesville, Va.; Dominion Books, 1940.

Journal & Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773-1774; a Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion. Williamsburg, Va.; Colonial Williamsburg, 1943.