DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: MCFARLAND, DR. J.E. (published 1887)
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887  -  Page 815-816

        DR. J.E. McFARLAND, a physician and surgeon of Millgrove, is a
native of Ohio, born in Darke County, November 5, 1847, a son of Lewis and
Charity (Marquis) McFarland. When nine years of age he was taken by his
parents to Randolph County, Indiana, the family settling on a farm on which
the father is still living. His education was received at the common
schools of his neighborhood, and completed at a graded school in Wayne
Township. He subsequently engaged in teaching, and taught one school in
Randolph County, Indiana, and two schools in Jefferson County, Kansas. He
began reading medicine in August 1869, at Union City, Indiana, and
September 30, 1869, went to Lawrence, Kansas. He took one course of
lectures at the American Medical College at St. Louis, Missouri. When, May
12, 1875, he settled at Millgrove, Blackford County, his intention was to
return to Kansas to practice, but owing to Kansas being devastated by
grasshoppers he changed his mind, and as before stated, came to Millgrove,
where he has met with success in his chosen profession, and built up a good
practice. Dr. McFarland was married December 25, 1875, to Miss Anna
McFarland, who was born in Randolph County, Indiana, September 20, 1848, a
daughter of Joseph and Susannah (Schlecthy) McFarland. They are the parents
of the following children -Josie M., born January 21, 1877; Mary N., born
July 9, 1882. Both the doctor and his wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and among the most respected citizens of Millgrove. In
politics he casts his suffrage with the Republican party. Lewis McFarland,
the father of our subject, was born in Holmes County, Ohio, March 12, 1819,
and when a boy his parents moved to Maryland, living there some two years,
when they returned to Darke County. The mother of our subject was born in
Darke County, March 11, 1821, where she was reared and married. She died in
February, 1885. They were the parents of eight children -Mary J. married
M.W. Byram, and died in March, 1872; Norman, a physician living in New
Pittsburg, Randolph County; Emily E., wife of William Zumbrum, living in
Kansas; William died aged about eighteen months; J.E., the subject of this
sketch; James F., living in the West; George W. died aged two years, and
Isaac K., who died at the age of nineteen years. John McFarland, the
grandfather of our subject was born at sea, while his parents were coming
from the Highlands of Scotland to America, they settled in Maryland near
Baltimore. He died in Darke County, Ohio, in his sixty-ninth year. His wife
was American born, and also died in Darke County. They reared three
children -William, Henry, and Lewis, the father of our subject. The
maternal grandparents of our subject, William Kidd and Polly (Stingla)
Marquis, were natives of Maryland and Virginia, respectively, the former
dying in Darke County, Ohio, at the advanced age of sixty-eight years. The
latter is living in Randolph County, Indiana, in her ninety-first year. The
father was born in Darke County, April 23, 1817, where he grew to manhood,
and was there married November 29, 1838, to Susannah Schlecthy, a daughter
of John and Mary (Noggle) Schleethy, who were born in Pennsylvania, and
died in Darke County, Ohio. To the parents of Mrs. McFarland were born six
children -John, Archibald, Mary, Eliza J., Anna and David, all of whom are
living and married. Soon after their marriage they moved to Jay County, and
lived in Pike Township some fifteen years, when they moved across the line
to Randolph County, where both died, the father November 18, 1879, and the
mother April 26, 1872. Archibald McFarland, the grandfather of Mrs.
McFarland, on coming to America settled in Ohio. He and his wife, Mary
(Phillips) McFarland, died in County, Randolph Indiana.


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