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John D. McFarland, one of the successful farmers of this county, was born in Bedford County, Penn., in 1829. His parents were natives of the same State, and both natives of the same county as their son. The father of our subject, William, and his mother, Sophia (Smith) McFarland, immigrated to Ohio, and settled in Logan County, which was then in a wild and uncultivated state. It was here that our subject lost his mother, and here he was reared, and received his education in a log schoolhouse. His father having moved to the western adjoining county, he followed him in 1851, and was here married to Semantha Julian, who was born in an Indian hut in Champaign County, Ohio. After living in Auglaize County, Ohio, for more than twenty years our subject removed to Knox County, Mo., bringing a family of eleven children. One child died before his removal to this State. Here he raised his family, one child being born after his settlement in Knox County, and our subject is proud of the fact that his entire family have been raised and reared to abstain from whisky and tobacco, and none of his children are addicted to immoral habits. Their names are Henry, Mary, Sophia, Cynthia, William, Martha, Alexander, Robert, Bell, Emma, Antony; Agnes and Leonard (deceased). During the war Mr. McFarland enlisted in Company K, Ninety-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Col. Langworthy, and participated in only one engagement—that of Perryville, where he was crippled on the bluff of Chaplain River, and consequently received an honorable discharge in Louisville, Ky. Our subject now ranks among the enterprising farmers of the county, and owns a fine farm of 440 acres, well stocked and improved. He is a man of high principles, and himself and family are members of the Roman Catholic Church.