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From: "Victoria Hospodar Valentine" <>
Subject: [PA-SW-OBITS] MCFARLAND,Rev. John W., Jan. 27, 1894 McDonald PA Outlook
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 07:58:59 -0500


Rev. John W. MCFARLAND
Who recently died while engaged in missionary work in Alaska was a son of
Samuel and Jane (VAN EMAN) MCFARLAND, and was born near Candor, in Raccoon
Presbyterian Church, Washington Co., Pa., August 1848. He was a nephew of
Rev. David MCFARLAND who was in mission work in New Mexico and Idaho, and
whose widow Amanda MCFARLAND, was the first female missionary to enter
Alaska; and he was a cousin of Rev. Samuel G. MCFARLAND, D. D., who for many
years has been a missionary and educator in Siam. His wife, who survives
him with one little daughter seven years old, was Miss Maggie DUNBAR of
Steubenville, Ohio.


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