Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....McFarlane, James 1830 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
  JAMES McFARLANE, merchant, lumberman and farmer, of Laporte Tannery, Sullivan
  county, was born in Arbroath, Scotland, June 10, 1830. He is the oldest of five
  children born to Rev. James and Elizabeth (Anderson) McFarlane, and was eight
  years old when his parents came to America and settled in Hudson county, New
  Jersey, where he received a thorough education under the tutelage of his father.
  When eighteen years old he secured a position in a large leather store in New
  York city, where he remained until 1864, and then formed a partnership with
  William and Jonathan Thorn, embarking in the hide and leather business at 76
  Gold street, New York. Soon afterward the firm purchased an old tannery and ten
  thousand acres of timber land at Laporte, and, repairing and refitting this
  plant, began the manufacturing of leather, this branch of this business being
  under the sole charge of Mr. McFarlane, the latter also attending to the sales
  department in New York, by traveling back and forth. In 1883, the manufacturing
  department at Laporte having grown to such large proportions, he became a
  permanent resident of that city and devoted his entire attention to this branch
  of the business. In 1887 the firm purchased a tract of land at Thornsdale and
  there erected a tannery, which also fell to Mr. McFarlane's full management. The
  Hill's Grove tannery had been bought in 1873, but after running for two years
  had been sold to Hoyt Brothers, and at one time this firm owned forty-two
  thousand acres of land in Sullivan county, selling the latter interests to the
  Union Tannery Company in 1893 and also closed their New York sales department.
  Mr. McFarlane retained his extensive private interests, consisting of one of the
  largest tilled farms in the country, a large sawmill with a capacity of ten
  thousand feet a day, a timber tract on Loyalsock creek and a large, well stocked
  general store.
  
      Mr. McFarlane has always been one of the representative business men of
  Sullivan county. The interests which he represents have been of incalculable
  value to Laporte and he is still planning new improvements and extensions for
  the benefit of the farming and working community. He is a stockholder and
  director in, and for some years was president of, the Lake Makoma Land Company.
  In politics he is a Democrat.
  
      On February 5, 1868, he was united in marriage to Miss Augusta Lovell,
  daughter of John Lovell, of Hudson county, New Jersey, and to them have been
  born three children, namely: James J., born June 10, 1869, is in the employ of
  Austin Nicholas & Company, of New York; Ada, who is at home; William, who died
  at the age of eighteen years. Mr. McFarlane owns a small farm and a handsome
  residence, "Glen Wild," in North Bergen township, Hudson county, New Jersey,
  where his family reside.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
          Extracted from: 
              
            History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
            by Thomas J. Ingham
              
         Compendium of Biography
              
               The Lewis Publishing Company
            Chicago: 1899
  
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