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John H. Farmer, a farmer and prominent business man of Chestnut Bluff, Crockett Co., Tenn., was born in Williamson County, Tenn., April 14, 1838, and was the oldest child of a family of seven sons and four daughters born to H. E. and Minerva A. (Mallory) Farmer, and is of French-Irish descent. His father was born and partly raised in North Carolina, but his parents moved to Williamson County when he was a boy, and he was educated there, also married there, and lived in that county until 1858, when he moved to Mississippi, and from there to Crockett County, Tenn., where he still lives. The mother was a native of Virginia, and is still living in Crockett County. Our subject, John H. Farmer, was raised on a farm, and received a good education. He has always farmed in connection with merchandising and other business, and for four years has been a magistrate in his district. He was in the Confederate Army, and was in the Forty-seventh Tennessee Infantry, but was soon released on account of disability. February 16, 1864, he was married, in southern Illinois, to Miss Sarah Lee, daughter of Peter Lee, a farmer and merchant of Tamaroa, Ill. Mrs. Farmer was born in Illinois in 1846, and belongs to the Missionary Baptist Church. Mr. Farmer is in politics a Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for John Bell. He owns 2,100 acres of land, and raises cotton and grain. He is a member of the board of management, and a stockholder in the Forked Deer Flouring-mills, located at Dyersburg, Tenn., and is a man of fine business qualifications.