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D. H. McFARLAND, physician, Heyworth; was born in the village of Licking Creek, Cumberland Co., Penn., Oct. 16, 1831, where he lived three years, when, with his parents, he moved to Mercersburg, in Franklin Co., Penn.; he lived there until he was 17 years of age; one year of this time he spent clerking in a general merchandise store, in Mercersburg. In 1848, with his parents, he moved to Clinton Co., Ind., and engaged in farming until 1852; he then, with his brother’s family, went to Monongahela City, Penn., remaining one year, and then returned to Frankfort, Ind., and engaged as clerk in the iron, hardware and grocery business, remaining one year, when he again went to Monongahela City and clerked for twenty-eight months in a general merchandise and mining business; then returning to Frankfort, he engaged as clerk in the drug store of Dr. Dunn, and read medicine under Drs. Dunn, Byers and Carter for three years; he then went to Chicago and attended lectures at the Rush Medical College, in 1857 and 1858; he then returned to Frankfort and began the practice of medicine; in 1859, he came to Heyworth and engaged in the dry-goods business with his brother J. C.; they continued one year, when the business was destroyed by fire; he then engaged in the drug business and office practice in Louisville, Ky. In 1861, he was commissioned as First Assistant Surgeon 15th Ind. V. I., and remained in the service one year, when, owing to ill health in his family, he resigned, and settled in Heyworth, and has lived there since. In 1868, he went to the Rush Medical College and presented himself for graduation; he spent several months in the college hospital, and received his diploma by direct examination. June 22, 1859, he married Miss Miriam E. Dunn, of Indiana.