Colonel Preston Withers Farrar[1] (1805/06 - March 7, 1850) was an American lawyer and Whig politician.
[3][7] In March 1833, Farrar married Eliza Scott, the only daughter of Mississippi Governor Abram M.
[9] In 1837, Preston and Eliza took control of half of the late Abram's plantation and enslaved people in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
[9] In 1838 they mortgaged the property and 43 enslaved people to obtain a loan of $29,000, which Farrar then used to pay off a $24,443 debt he owed to a New Orleans firm.
[9] When the Farrars could not repay a majority of the $29,000 loan the bank threatened to foreclose on the plantation property.