BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Page 652.

JAMES McFARLAND

James McFarland, an old and highly esteemed resident of Richland township, was
born in Ireland in 1806, the son of Andrew and Nancy (McFadden) McFarland,
both natives of county Tyrone. These parents were members of the Seceder
church in Ireland, and in 1812 came to America, settling first in Phil-
adelphia, where the father worked in a factory for four years. He and family
then removed to Wheeling township, Belmont county, and made their home upon
the farm of sixty-one and a half acres, which they sold fifteen or twenty
years later. They then bought a farm of 100 acres near Bellaire, where the
father passed the remainder of his days. James McFarland remained with his
parents until he was twenty-one years old, assisting them and attending the
pioneer schools. On January 8, 1835, he was married to Susan Porterfield,
who was born October 3, 1810, and died April 9, 1871. They began life
together with little property, but by years of patient industry, became
prosperous, and Mr. McFarland has now an excellent farm of 115 acres, and is
comfortably situated. He and his family are members of the United Pres-
byterian church. To his marriage were born five children, as follows:
Nancy, April 21, 1836; John, March 28, 1838; Andrew, November, 1840; George,
November 5, 1842, and Margaret, October 3, 1848. George enlisted in Company
B, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth regiment Ohio infantry, under Capt. William
Kirk, and served gallantly during three years of the war for the Union. He
received a gun-shot wound in the ankle, for which he received a small pension.