Harry Webb Farrington

Who was Harry Webb Farrington?

Harry Webb Farrington was an American author, poet, hymn writer, preacher, soldier, and educator. He was an orphan who lived in Baltimore, Maryland, Bel Air, Maryland, and Darlington, Maryland. He is famous still as being a member of the Darlington United Methodist Church and witnessing the great revivals of the late 1890s. The story of his life comes from one of his books, Kilts to Togs: Orphan Adventures. He is also the author of Cher Ami, Rough and Brown, Walls of America, and Roosevelt the Righteous. He also wrote Poems from France in 1920.