James M. Farr

James M. Farr
University of Florida Vice President James M. Farr, circa 1920.
Born	(1874-02-04)February 4, 1874 Union, South Carolina
Died	March 4, 1958(1958-03-04) (aged 84) Jacksonville, Florida
Education	A.B., Davidson College, 1894 A.M., Davidson College, 1895 Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1901
Occupation	University Professor University Administrator
Employer	Florida Agricultural College University of Florida at Lake City University of Florida
Spouse(s)	Anita Nicholson Harris Farr

James Marion Farr (February 4, 1874 – March 4, 1958) was an American university professor and academic administrator. Farr was a native of South Carolina, and earned bachelor's, master's 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 university's 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 mother's death and a parade of the Red Shirts. Farr attended public and private schools until he entered the South Carolina Military Academy (The Citadel) 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 (North Carolina Theta Chapter). 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 dissertation entitled Intensives and Reflexives in Anglo-Saxon and Early Middle-English, and graduated with his doctor of philosophy degree in English language in 1901.