Richard T. Ferrell

[3] According to his tombstone, Ferrell was born in 1885,[4] a date supported by a biographical article appearing in The Idaho Forester in 1932.

[6] Ferrell attended Moody Bible Institute (Henry Parsons Crowell paid his tuition) and became student pastor at First Presbyterian Church.

After meeting itinerant evangelist Frank Higgins, however, he felt called to preach to lumberjacks, and resigned from Moody.

He was commissioned by the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America to spread the gospel among the logging camps of the Idaho Panhandle; later his parish included Eastern Washington and Western Montana.

"[6] Daman goes on to note that "In an average year, he traveled 19,048 miles; delivered 217 sermons; visited 222 camps, hospitals, missions, Sunday schools, and day schools; called on 902 families and 83 sick persons; wrote 380 letters; and handed out 633 Gospels and tracts plus hundreds of pounds of secular books and magazines.