Yolo-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Macfarlane, William W. 1834 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

DR. WILLIAM W. MACFARLANE, was born in Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri,
February 23, 1834. His father was a native of Scotland and was born in 1796, in
Ayrshire. He emigrated to America in 1820 and settled in Callaway County,
Missouri. He was a graduate of the law department of the University of
Edinburgh. On his arrival in this country he engaged in farming and also in
teaching in the public schools. He was married in 1830 to Miss Catherine
Bennett, a daughter of Elijah and Martha (Davis) Bennett. She was born in
Madison County, Kentucky, in 1796. Her parents moved to Missouri about 1824. Dr.
Macfarlane's parents raised a family of four children, the Doctor being the
oldest. Mary M., now the wife of O. McCrackin, stock-raiser of Callaway County,
Missouri; George B., an attorney, practicing at Mexico, Missouri; Captain John
D., deceased, was also a lawyer. The Captain commanded a company in a Missouri
regiment of volunteers in the civil war. W. W., the subject of this sketch,
received his early education in the public schools of Callaway County,
principally under the tuition of his father and at Westminster College at
Fulton, Missouri. He studied medicine with Drs. T. A. and J. H. Howard at
Fulton. During the winter of 1860 and 1861, he attended the first course of
lectures at the St. Louis Medical College. Owing to the exciting times and the
unsettled state of affairs during the next four years, he did not attempt to
finish his medical education. In 1865 he again entered the St. Louis Medical
College, from which he graduated and received his diploma March 3, 1866. He then
commenced the practice of medicine and surgery at Concord, Callaway County,
Missouri, where he remained about nine years. In 1873 he was elected physician
for the State Insane Asylum at Fulton, which position he held for two and a half
years, when he resigned and was appointed as one of the managers of the
institution. In 1875 he went to Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri, where he
practiced medicine until 1884. At the age of eighteen he crossed the plains to
California and remained four years, returning to his home in Missouri in 1856,
via Panama and New York city. Like many of the immigrants who came to California
during the gold excitement, he became attached to the climate and country of the
land of the Golden West. In 1884 he came to California with his family, having
decided to make a permanent home in this State. He first settled in Southeastern
California, where he remained only a few months, then came to Woodland, Yolo
County, where he established himself in the practice of medicine. In 1886 he was
appointed County Hospital Physician for one year. In 1887 he received the
appointment of Superintendent of the State Insane Asylum at Agnew, Santa Clara
County, in which capacity he served two years. In July, 1889, he resigned that
position and returned to Woodland and resumed his practice in the city. In
March, 1890, he came to Davisville, where he intends to establish himself
permanently in the practice of his profession.

  He was married November 5, 1867, to Miss Mary E. Thurmond, a native of
Missouri, and daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Dameron) Thurmond. Her parents
were natives of Virginia. She died February 18, 1884, at Mexico, Missouri,
previous to the Doctor's removal to California. They have four children: Wallace
S., born September 18, 1868. He is a graduate of the St. Louis College of
Pharmacy, and is now employed as a druggist in the drug store of J. B. Elston in
Woodland. Claude T., born September 10, 1870, graduated from the high school of
Woodland, after which he attended one term at the Hesperian College and two
years at the University of the Pacific at Santa Clara. He is now clerking in the
dry-goods store of J. F. Hink, Woodland. Irnie M., born January 4, 1875, is now
a student in the Hesperian College, Woodland, and Paul W., the youngest, was
born February 9,1880, and is attending the public schools of Woodland.

  Dr. Macfarlane is a Knight Templar Mason, also a member of the A. O. U. W. He
is a member of the Yolo County Medical Society, the California State Medical
Association, also the New York Medico-Legal Society. He owns 160 acres of
improved land in Yolo County, which is occupied by a tenant and is devoted to
the production of hay and grain.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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