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Biographical Information
- Robert P. Farris was a Presbyterian clergyman in Missouri, he is frequently referred to as "R.P."
- In 1851, he was pastor of Bonhomme Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Missouri[1].
- He must have lived in St. Charles, Missouri in 1865, when he and his wife lost a daughter, Angie.
- R.P.Farris was involved in a free-speech-in-time-of-war situation during the Civil War, see Martyrdom in Missouri
- From The Presbyterian Digest of 1898[2], p. 703 and p. 678:
- Complaint of the Session of the First Presbyterian church, St. Charles, Mo.
- A complaint of Rev. Robert P. Farris against the Synod of Missouri.
- These two cases are substantially identical, and may be regarded as one. The Committee find that in the matter complained of there was no action of the Synod as such, but only a decision of the Moderator affecting the complainants, from which they made no appeal to the body of the Synod, and consequently they have no just ground of complaint. They therefore recommend that it be dismissed, and that the complainants have leave to withdraw their papers. The report was adopted -- 1865, p. 543, O. S.
- The Baltimore Sun Almanac of 1898 lists Robert P. Farris, D.D., St. Louis, as permanant clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern).[3]
- The Presbyterian Ministerial Directory (Southern), 1898,[4] p. 42 has the following entry:
- FARRIS, Robert P., 9 Lews Park. St. Louis, Mo., -- Born St. Louis, Mo.; St. Xavier C., O., B. A., 1944; Yale C., B. A., '47; Wm. C., Mo., D. D., '66; Prin. T. S., '48-50; Lane R. S., O., '50-51; Lic. '51, Ord. '52, Pby. of St. Louis; P. 2nd Ch., Peoria, Ill., '58-59; E. St. Louis Presbyterian, '66-95; Mod. Gen. Assembly Pbn. Ch. in the U.S., '81; Permanent Clerk Gen. Assembly in the U. S., '85--.
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