Biography:  Ben Holliday McFarland of Monroe County, Mississippi

Source:  Rowland, Dunbar, ed.  The Official and Statistical Register of 
the State of Mississippi, 1904.  Nashville, Tenn.:  Press of the Brandon 
Printing Company, 1904.  Pags 550-551.

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MONROE COUNTY.
Population, 1900 - 31,216

BEN HOLLIDAY MCFARLAND, of Aberdeen, was born March 10, 1880, at Aberdeen, 
Miss., and is the son of Baxter McFarland and wife, Mary (Holliday) 
McFarland.  His ancestors came from Scotland and were of the Clan 
McFarland; they settled in North Carolina in 1772; he is related to the 
Hollidays, McKays and Speights of North Carolina, being a great-grandson 
of Senator Jesse Speight, of Mississippi.  The father of the subject of 
this sketch was a soldier of the Confederacy, and served as Lieutenant in 
the Eleventh Mississippi Regiment, Adjutant Forty-first Mississippi, and 
on General Tucker's staff with rank of Major; was Chancellor of the First 
District from 1883 to 1899, and is now a member of the Aberdeen bar.  Mr. 
McFarland attended the private and public schools of Aberdeen; entered 
the University of Mississippi and was graduated in 1899 with the B. A. 
degree; was graduated from the law school of the University of Mississippi 
in 1901 with degree of LL. B.; began the practice of law at aberdeen 
October 1, 1901, with father under firm name of McFarland & McFarland; 
elected to the House of Representatives from Monroe County November 3, 
1903.  Mr. McFarland is a Democrat; member of Methodist Church; Mason, 
Knight of Pythias, Woodman of the World and Elk; was married June 3, 1902, 
at Columbus, Miss., to Jean Edward Watson, daughter of Edward Minor Watson 
and wife Lilly Moore, of Holly Springs.  Mrs. McFarland is the 
granddaughter of Hon. J. W. C. Watson, who represented Mississippi in 
the Confederate Senate; her father was Assistant Attorney-General in 
Cleveland's first administration.