James Malcolm McFarland, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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James N. McFarland, a doctor of dental Surgery, has practiced his profession in 
Louisiana for a quarter of a century and has long been one of the skilled teachers 
in his calling at Alexandria.

James Malcolm McFarland was born in Union Parish, Louisiana, in 1866, son of Malcolm 
and Martha (Thomas) McFarland.  His parents were born in North Carolina.  Malcolm 
McFarland was born in l811, and in 1836 moved to Louisiana, where he married and 
enjoyed a long and prosperous career as a farmer and planter.  He died in 1899.  
He and his wife were very strict members of the Presbyterian Church, and as a youth 
he joined the Masonic Lodge and became a life member of that fraternity.

James N. McFarland was the eighth in a family of ten children, six of whom are living.  
He was reared on a plantation, had a common school education and after that had to seek 
independent means of accomplishing his ambition for a professional career.  He borrowed 
money to take a course in dentistry, attending the dental department of the Baltimore 
Medical College.  He was the first student to matriculate from that branch of the college.  
For three years he practiced dentistry in North Carolina, in the vicinity of his father's 
birthplace.  Returning to Louisiana, he located at Sardis, where for seven years he 
carried on a substantial practice, but since 1907 has been located in Alexandria and 
has maintained well equipped offices and gives his patients the benefit of his experience 
and his thorough knowledge of both mechanical and surgical dentistry.  He is a member of 
the local and state dental societies.

Doctor McFarland married in 1890 Augusta Montgomery Hymes, who was born in New Orleans 
and was a direct descendant of Lieutenant Governor Hymes.  She finished her education in 
Baton Rouge.  Doctor and Mrs. McFarland have a son, Malcolm Douglass, who was educated in 
the Columbia Military Academy at Columbia, Tennessee, and is now employed by the Colb 
Company at Lake Charles, Louisiana.  Doctor and Mrs. McFarland are members of the 
Presbyterian Church.  He is a York and Scottish Rite Masonic and Shriner, is affiliated 
with the Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a democrat in 
politics, and his favorite recreation is fishing.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 309, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The American 
Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.