Notes:

FTDNA #448641

CHARLES KIRK MCFARLIN 1892 - 1977 by; Peter F McFarlin - 2008

A MID-WEST START
According to secondary and family sources (# 1), the first child of William and Margaret (Wiltsie) McFarlin was Charles Kirk McFarlin, born June 17 1892 in Topeka, Kansas. However, no official Kansas birth record has been found, even after Pete r F McFarlin (PFM) visited the Center For Historical Research (while passing through Topeka, Kansas in October of 2007) where he searched the Kansas vital records. This lack of recording may be due to Kirk's father William's transient profession a s supervisor of railroad maintenence for the Atchison Topeka and Sante Fe branch of the Rock Island Line. Also, his parents did not own any real estate in Topeka and environs during the years 1890 to 1894, either. So, the birth record was probabl y just not recorded. Possibly Margaret had Charles Kirk with assistence from the AT&SF RR company itself: "Harmony between managers and employees has been in every way encouraged. For years a reading-room and library system was maintained along th e line, and a splendid hospital service is now in effect." (# 2)

MCFARLINS MOVE EAST
William and Margaret McFarlin were living in Davenport, Iowa in the mid to late 1890's when he was offered a good RR engineering position back in New Jersey (connected with Frank Hyde and others), with the Lackawanna system (ibid #1). William an d Margaret brought young Kirk east with them in the late 1890's and moved into a home at 16 Hawthorne Ave in East Orange, New Jersey. The June 1900 US census for that address lists; "Charles K McFarlin, age 8 b Kansas, June 1891-(-2?), at school" . He was living there with; William K McFarlin ("chief engineer; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western RR") b OH Mar 1861, Margaret W McFarlin b IL Sept 1864, and Margaret's mother, J Mary W Wiltsie, b NY July 1832. (The McFarlin's soon had a second so n in Dec of 1900; Donald, born there in East Orange, NJ - PFM's father).

EDUCATION
His uncle Kirk relates to PFM in 1974 that Kirk's mother "...did one great thing for my brother and I; she was anxious for us to have the best education. The family always provided books you know, as a background...and my father took care of the h igher education part of it."
"Kirk McFarlin completed his preliminary education at East Orange (N.J.) High School and then went to Williams College, where he graduated B.A. in 1912, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was graduated B.S. in civil engineerin g in 1914....McFarlin belonged to Psi Upsilon and was a charter member of the Delta Delta chapter at Williams College". (# 3)

TRIP ABROAD
In the summer of 1913, at the age of twenty-one, Kirk escorted his mother and younger brother Donald on a four month European trip. Kirk's passport application (dated May 29, 1913) describes him as; 6 ft 0 in, brown eyes, dark hair, born june 17 1 892 in Topeka, Kansas and that he was living at suite 22, 19 Haviland Street, Boston (likely his address while attending MIT). A photo given to PFM by his uncle Kirk in 1974 shows a Swiss Alps hiking scene of young Donald McFarlin (age 13) and the ir mother Margaret on an open field trail with the Jungfrau mountain in the background. The photo was taken by Kirk. The three returned to NYC Sept 23 1913 from Naples, Italy via the SS Princess Irene. All gave their address then as; 170 Glenwoo d Ave, East Orange, NJ.

MEETING THE FOLSOM FAMILY
About 1913 and 1914 the William McFarlin family of East Orange had met and became acquainted with the Edmund Franklin Folsom family of Brookline, MA. William's son Donald (b 1900) and Edmund's son Eddie (b 1899) both had attended a summer camp nea r Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. The boys became friends and about 1913-14 young Donald visited the Folsom home in Brookline (where Donald met his future wife - Margaret Folsom - Eddie's little sister - age seven). Through the two familys' a cquaintance, Donald's brother Kirk also met Margaret's older sister, Mary Folsom. Then, in 1917-18 Mary and Kirk had likely met in Brookline/Boston while Kirk was studying engineering at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

WORLD WAR I
WW I in Europe was declared in 1914 (while Kirk was at MIT) and the United States became involved in 1917. Just before he registered for the draft in 1917, Kirk returned from a trip to Jamaica to NYC March 1st on the SS Carville.
"During the war he served as a lieutenant in the US Navy Air Force as a meteorologist in Europe" (ibid.# 3). In October of 1918, Kirk visited an Irish Manor house outside the city of Cork, known as Farron, and related to his nephew Peter, in 1974 , a story of 'Bringing in the Spurs', which Kirk had learned there. "This is an early Scot's tradition of serving only spurs at the dinner feast, which was the signal that the larder was empty and that the clan must take off for the lower midland s country whence came the food of the mountain people."

MARY FOLSOM
Kirk and Mary Folsom corresponded while Kirk was on US Naval duty in France in 1918. He sent this postcard from Nice on Christmas day:
(postcard here)
Kirk went back to Paris the next week, sending the following postcard December 31, 1918 to Maryabout his travels. As seen in the last line, he almost lost his life from a German 70 mile artillary shell which landed just 200 feet away!
(postcard here)

BUSINESS CAREER
After returning from his duty in Europe, Kirk began his career in 1919-20 as an engineer with the Barrett Co., New York City, a manufacturing company with research facilities. He soon become vice-president of Hensey & Co., New York City (exporter s and importers). The Jan 1920 US census finds Kirk enumerated at his parents home at Eastwood Street (off of Glenwood Ave), East Orange, NJ. Also living there are his father William (a railroad contractor) and his mother Margaret and younger brot her, Donald. In their garage at the rear of the property are living five various servants; chauffeur, cook, nurse and two maids. Charles Kirk is listed as an exporter with employees.
Later that year, Kirk's Sept 1st, 1920 application for US passport, shows that he is intending to leave the US from New York on the Gen G W Goethals Sept 9th. Walter R Hensey of Hensey & Co Inc (export and importers of food, wheat and explosives ) writes; "This is to certify that Charles K McFarlin, our vice president, is proceeding to the West Indies in the interests of our business, visiting Haiti, Santo Domingo and Cuba. In view of future travel in Europe during the life of this passpo rt, in the interests of our business, he has also specified on his passport application Great Britian, France, Belguim, Switzerland, Holland, Spain and Italy." (PFM notes, however that no 1920-1927 passenger arrivals from any of these places wer e found in the records for Charles Kirk McFarlin, and it may be surmised that he did not travel as planned.)

PARENT'S SEPARATION
Uncle Kirk relates to PFM "...it was in 1921 or '22 that my father and mother separated. My father set up single living in an apartment...My brother went with him. He lived at a small family hotel in East Orange and my mother lived variously in th is area here (Maplewood), always by herself, never with us .She was a very strong-minded person and she enjoyed living by herself. I think preferred that...She held extremely good social positions in the Oranges - in East Orange.
"She was extremely well-thought of. I think she was president of the Women's club, or whatever, up to the time when the break came and then she moved to Maplewood, and I accompanied her and lived with her until Adelaide and I were married. And i t was, of course, through having moved into that area that I came to meet Adelaide and resulted in our being married...I became interested (in Christian Science) as early as 1918-20's and in turn I was able to assist Adelaide to become intereste d and this has made quite a foundation for both of us ever since...We don't carry it to the limits that many people do, but it is our dominent thought and it has, in our opinion, been of tremendous value to us over the years. And, for that I am en tirely indebted to her (Margaret), because you don't come by this often on your own, out of a clear blue sky. For some people, it does, but for me it came through her and for Adelaide, it came through me." (ibid.# 1)

MARY AND KIRK 1921-1925
Mary Folsom and Kirk McFarlin continued seeing each other during 1919 and the early 1920's. Dated photos show them together, sometimes with her mother Margaret , either at Mary's home in Brookline (above), or at the McFarlin's summer place, canoei ng on Lake Placid in New York (photo at right). Kirk often wore his Naval uniform at these times.
Mary's description of their times together, just after her return from her own trip abroad in October of 1924, shows them meeting, either in NYC, when he was working at the National City Bank, or at his mother's home in Montclair, NJ, where they " practiced with their clubs" until it was too dark to hit the golfballs. They often dined together at his home or out with friends. Kirk taught Mary to drive his car and they went "riding" in it with various friends, once going to Boonton to pick u p his brother Donald from his work there. They sometimes took his mother Margaret to the weekly lectures that she often attended.
Mary (Folsom) Applegate later (1970's) told her nephew Peter (PFM) that she and Kirk were quite serious about each other during this time.
However, in a personal letter from Margaret McFarlin to Mary Folsom dated June 26th 1925 from Maplewood, NJ, Margaret writes; "My dear Mary, Your letter announcing (to the McFarlins) your great and final choice was received with much joyful intere st. Ever since the morning where we took our first walk together and found that we had interests and tastes in common I have had a very warm and especial place in my heart for Mary Folsom....Kirk is now at the Placid Club for two weeks rest & I fo rwarded to him your letter which arrived after he left".

In Kirk's June 21st 1925 response to Mary's announcement (of becoming engaged to Mr Octavius Applegate) he wishes her great joy, too. Then Kirk ends with; "This note comes with it, Mary; my best wishes for every good thing which life can bring. W e shall look forward to meeting Mr Applegate at some future time, and congratulate him now on his very good fortune. Please remember me most kindly to your mother and father, and to the little sister. Cordially, Kirk".

NEW FAMILY WITH ADELAIDE HOLLENBECK
Kirk had met Adelaide Hollenbeck of Maplewood, at a friend's house in NJ while playing bridge. They were married in Maplewood, May of 1926 and took a wedding trip to Lake Placid. Within a year they built their home (designed by Kirk himself) at 2 4 Delwick Ave, Short Hills, NJ. They apparently had a stillborn daughter about early 1928. He then took Adelaide on a trip to Bermuda, returning to New York from Hamilton, June 8th 1928.
"After a period as a trust officer with the National City Bank of New York, he joined the Wood Newspaper Machinery Corp., Plainfield, N.J., as an accountant in 1927" (ibid.# 3). (He later became assistant treasurer in 1936 and treasurer in 1941) . In the May 1930 US Census, Kirk McFarlin; "printing company accountant" is listed as head of family owning his own home on Delwick Lane, valued at $35,000. Also in the household are his wife Adelaide and their German maid, Hilda Reinhauer.
Shortly after the 1930 enumeration was taken in May, their second child, Kirk Charles McFarlin was born in the East Orange Memorial Hospital, 13 July 1930. Then, in Oct of 1933, their last child, Everett Byrne McFarlin was born.
In 1974, while looking at family pictures with PFM, aunt Polly (Adelaide) added "...and that is our little dog that adopted us - Bubbles went eveywhere with us - other pictures; growing up - Everett here, and this is where we went down to Marylan d to Rehobeth Beach - where we went before we had our farm. Now here the two boys are celebrating together...Kirk wanted brother Everett's curls cut 'cause others didn't know if he had a brother or sister. And here is young Kirk - he had just take n the shears and had gone right up through his hair like this."
During the 'thirtys, on weekends and holidays, Kirk and Adelaide often had family come visit to their nice home. His mother, Mrs Margaret McFarlin, would come over from Maplewood as well as his brother Donald and Peggy (Folsom) who had married i n 1932, and also lived nearby in Maplewood. Various photos of the families and children (PHOTOS) (Kirk b 1930, Everett b 1933, Alison b 1934, and Peter b 1937) were taken by Kirk during 1932-37 there at Delwick Lane in Short Hills, NJ.

KIRK'S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER
Uncle Kirk told Peter in 1974; "Now this I did want to say to you, which I think is a matter of great interest. As my mother's condition became more and more difficult, it became - I tried to stay out of this affair - I had spent years trying to k eep it together and when it failed (1920-21) I let it go. I mean I stayed away from it. I supported my mother which I thought was the right thing to do. But as the years went on, it became necessary - as a matter of fact, I was the fiscal agen t - everything came through me. My father did his best to offer support until the time when he passed away."
Kirk often visited with his father during the 'twentys and 'thirtys at William's hotel in East Orange. "as the years went on...we came to have considerable respect for each other. We used to visit him down at this little hotel. I'd often stop ther e on a Saturday afternoon. Eventually he passed away very quietly and very quickly, hurrying up a set of stairs to take a train to his office at the age of eighty-two (1943). Bang, just like that."
Prior to his father's death, Kirk had managed various parts of his father's affairs regarding finances for his mother. This included the Rife impulse ram water pump company (# 4). "But, after he died, I discovered that he had left this thing in m y hands! And it was all there was for my mother, really. I was then employed, as I had been lucky enough to retain employment through the depression, as a matter of fact. So, I got into the thing - that was '43, and for six years it was my mother' s (source) - it did the trick."

MCFARLIN'S AND FOLSOMS SEPARATE
During the mid-thirties, difficulties arose between Kirk's brother Donald (along with his mother) and Donald's wife Peggy (see Donald's and also Peggy's notes elsewhere). This resulted in Peggy's 1938 return to her family in Wellesley, MA taking A lison and Peter, and in their divorce in 1939. A very sad and difficult time for everyone in the two families. For about thirty years, contact ceased between the New Jersey McFarlins and the Folsom/McFarlins of Wellesley (until 1966).

DELWICK LANE LIFE CONTINUES
Kirk's father had passed on in 1943, and his brother Donald had removed to Washington DC, working for the War Department. Donald remarried about 1942. Their mother, Margaret passed on in 1949, still alone, but well cared for by a personal nurse.
The children, Kirk and Everett continued through local schools and then son Kirk (called 'Peter' by Kirk and Polly - after an early pet rabbit) went on in 1945 to Tabor Academy in Marion, MA graduating in 1949, when he joined the US Marines. Thei r son Everett remained at home.
Kirk Sr designed new parts for some of the Rife pump systems and filed successful patent applications in 1946 and 1949 for these improvements (# 5). He kept his treasurer's position at the Wood Newspaper Machinery Corp until 1954, when he resigne d after twenty-seven years with them and became president of Rife Hydraulic Manufacturing Co. then in New York City, which he moved to Millburn, New Jersey in 1961. He remained active with this company until the month he died, in April of 1977.

SOME TRAVELS AND VISITS
Kirk's earlier trips had included; Europe in 1913 at 21, Jamaica in 1917 at 24, Europe in 1917-18 (WW I) at 26-27, possibly West Indies in 1920 at age 28, and Bermuda in 1928, when he was 38 and Adelaide was 28.. Kirk went with his son Kirk to Gua temala in the late 1950's on a Rife business trip. During the 1970's Kirk and Adelaide took their grand-daughter Claire (McFarlin) Viviani twice to Europe and once to the Far East, while she was in her teens.
Kirk and Adelaide had many visits to and from their families from the 1920's through the 1960's. PFM first visited them in 1966, and Kirk's son Mac (Kirk jr) stayed in Short Hills with them for a few months in 1967 and again in 1970-71. In the 198 0's another grand-daughter, Gina, came for summer visits and even lived there for a year, finishing her high schooling at Millburn High in 1985.
Uncle Kirk writes at Christmastime in 1973 to Peter; "Outside of a possible ten days in Florida in February we have no plans to be away...I am still working full time, and except for a fortnight a year ago in Manila and Taipei, have not been away . We hope that you will come and see us in the spring. I still hope to find some of the family history for you."
PFM did visit again, for two days, in 1974, staying at their Delwick Lane home.

MCFARLIN FAMILY CORRESPONDENCES
Peter and his Wellesley relatives (Peggy McFarlin, the Folsoms and the Applegates) had never had any contact with his father Donald (or any of his McFarlin relatives) since his parent's divorce in 1939. He had always been curious about Donald's wh ere-abouts and situation. Having begun researching his family's genealogy and history some years before, Peter knew that Donald's brother, Kirk McFarlin used to "live somewhere in NJ".
The opportunity to find out more arose when he took a research oceanographic position with Alpine Geophysical Associates of Norwood, NJ. While living temporarily in Riverdale, NJ, Peter looked up and made his first ever (and nervous) phone call t o his McFarlin relatives. Kirk was surprised, but cordial and pleased, to hear from Peter. Thus began a correspondence between uncle Kirk, aunt Polly and Peter that lasted over eleven years between them.
In that first contact of October 1966, Peter asked his uncle Kirk to please contact Donald (in Florida), which Kirk did, but with mixed results. On Jan 27, 1967, Kirk wrote; "My dear Peter; I wrote your father at once about your visit here, an d of your request that I do so. I had heard from him shortly before that time, but he was apparently not able to write after receiving my letter. His condition became critical and in early January he was moved back to the hospital. I am sorry to h ave to tell you that he passed away on January 12 after an illness extending over a little more than a year. ...".
Peter much appreciates all the consideration and help with information which uncle Kirk gave him over the years (see bio notes about PFM, elsewhere).

UNCLE KIRK'S PASSING
Aunt Polly called Peter on the 4th of April, 1977 relating the sad news that uncle Kirk, at age eighty-four, had died April 2nd in a hospital near Millburn, after about eight days care there. He had worked hard at the business recently and had spr ained his back. He had lost some weight and went in for a checkup. Kirk had a benign intestinal tumor removed and was healing well. However, he developed weak blood and died quickly of pneumonia.
Kirk had a private interment with a navy flag at their family cemetery plot in Millburn and a small memorial service was held later in church.
"In politics he was a Republican. His special interests included world geography and earth sciences, meteorology, aviation, travel, and golf." (ibid.# 3)

(Research):GENERAL NOTE:
Peter had various conversations with his mother and her family while growing up and living in Massachusetts, regarding his father, Donald McFarlin and the McFarlin family of New Jersey.

NOTES AND REFERENCES
-(# 1) McFarlin; 1966 - In October, while living in Riverdale, NJ and working at Alpine Geophysical Associates in Norwood, NJ, PFM first ever looked up (and 'phoned) his uncle Kirk and aunt Polly McFarlin. This was followed in November by a visi t from PFM to the McFarlin's home on Delwick Lane in Short Hills, NJ. At that time, uncle Kirk gave PFM a small amount of data and information.
-- McFarlin; 1974 - Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 189 7 (1877?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and no tes in his possession at that time.
-- McFarlin; 9-10 October, 1974 - Personal conversations between PFM and Kirk and Polly McFarlin at their home in Short Hills NJ. These were willingly taped and later transcribed to text. Occasional phone conversations and letters from Uncle Kir k to PFM followed between 1967 and up to March of 1977, one month before Kirk died.
- (# 2) The Atchison Topeka & Sante Fe, by Charles S Gleed, The Cosmopolitan - Feb, 1893.
- (# 3) The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1980, V59 p173.
- (# 4) Rife Hydraulic Engine Manufacturing Co, Millburn, NJ; 1965, Water pumps driven only by the water's gravity power.
- (# 5) US Patent Office; patents # 2,572,173 1951(strainer), and #3,037,636 1962 (valve housing).

OTHER SOURCES:
- 1900 census; East Orange, Essex co, NJ ED 180 p 201; Charles K McFarlin a 8 b Kansas, living with his parents and grandmother; J Mary Wilsey - all living at their home at 16 Hawthorne Ave.
- 1910 census; East Orange, Essex co, NJ ED 163 p 266; Charles K MacFarland(sic) a 18 b New Jersey(sic) living with his parents and brother Donald at their home at 180 Glenwood Ave.
- 1920 census; East Orange, Essex co, NJ ED 31 p 70; Charles K McFarlin a 28 b Kansas living with his parents and Donald at 170 Eastwood St (corn. of Glenwood Ave)
- 1930 census; Millburn, Essex co, NJ ED 7-506 p 22; Kirk McFarlin a 37 b Kansas living with wife Adelaide a 29 and maid Hilda Reinhauer a 23, all at Delwick Lane.
- 1977 Soc Sec death index, SSN 150-03-7996
- Various US Passport and immigration records.

Charles married Adelaide Sutherland Hollenbeck on 8 May 1926 in Maplewood, Essex Co, New Jersey, USA. Adelaide was born on 19 May 1900 in Brooklyn Maternity Hospital, Kings Co, New York, USA; died on 1 Oct 1999 in Methodist Hospital Medical Ctr, Houston, Harris Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

ADELAIDE (HOLLENBECK) MCFARLIN 1900 - 1999 by; Peter F McFarlin -
2008;

Adelaide (Ruth?) Sutherland Hollenbeck was born in the Brooklyn Maternity Hospital on May 19 1900, the daughter of Everett and Adelaide (Sutherland) Hollenbeck of Brooklyn. In the 1900 US census (taken on June 1st) she is listed there as "Ruth" Ho llenbeck and is in the nursery room (6th fl) while her mother is in a private room on the 3rd floor. The hospital record may be in error or her name became Adelaide shortly after.

EDUCATION AND GRAND TOUR
The 1910 census finds the Hollenbeck family living at Curtis Terrace in Maplewood, a part of South Orange, New Jersey (NJ) where Adelaide, age nine, is attending school. In 1919 she is graduated from the Columbia High School of South Orange/Maplew ood.
About 1920, Aunt Polly went to Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts (MA) and studied biology. Her first dissection was on a cat and she fainted. She soon dropped biology and decided to continue with her art interests at the Museum Schoo l (of Fine Arts) in Boston, MA. (# 2)
In May of 1924, at age twenty three, Adelaide traveled with her parents to Europe on the SS Leviathan. She listed on her March passport her occupation as student and countries planned to visit were; British Isles, France, Belguim, Holland, Switzer land and Italy.

MARRAIGE AND HOME
She had met Kirk McFarlin in Maplewood NJ, while playing bridge at a mutual friend's house. They saw each other for a period and were married there in May of 1926. After honeymooning at Lake Placid they returned to their new home at 24 Delwick Lan e in Short Hills, NJ. Polly was interviewed in 1983 for some history of the Delwick Lane area (# 3). "My husband and I discovered this lovely little spot while we were horseback riding. At that time we were engaged.". I have lived at 24 Delwick La ne since the summer of 1926 when I moved into the house as a bride." Her home was designed by her husband Kirk and built by Bernhardt Mueller.
"We knew that it would be a wise thing to have a dog, because we were almost alone on this street, and while we were trying to decide what kind of a dog we would get, I heard a scratch on the door one morning, and here was a little wire-haired fo x terrier wagging it's tail and he seemed to enjoy being here; we put him out at night and the next morning back he would come." The McFarlin's neighbor, Louis Kaufmann..."came over one morning and said he understood that his little dog Bubbles wa s very happy living with us." And so, Bubbles became their household pet while the Kaufmann children shared him on summer weekends when they were at their huge estate home across from the McFarlins there on Delwick Lane.
Adelaide was first Episcopalian and later Christian Scientist, which was introduced to her through her husband Kirk.

CHILDREN
Around 1927-28 Adelaide (Polly) miscarried their first child; a girl. Kirk took Polly to relax in Bermuda in May/June of 1928. The 1930 census finds Adelaide and Kirk owning their home and with a maid. Their son Kirk Charles McFarlin was born Jul y 13 1930 in East Orange. His daughter Claire later shares that her grandma Polly almost named him Kirkpatrick, (after the longer version of his ancestor branch; the Kirkpatricks of Middlesex, PA. and 1700's NJ before that). When the Kirkpatrick s settled in Coitsville, OH in the early 1800's, they had shortened their surname to Kirk. Polly decided to also shorten it, after baby Kirk was born, "...she couldn't see giving such a small child, such a long name" (# 4). Aunt Polly later told P FM that they called young Kirk 'Peter', after a pet rabbit, so as to not call him 'junior'. Charles was sometimes used as his legal, original middle name. Adelaide and Kirk's last child was their son Everett Byrne McFarlin, born in East Orange, Oc t of 1933.
Adelaide applied some of her art knowledge to designing patterns for china sets, and she later became an expert calligrapher, later teaching classes in the Millburn area. Her sister-in-law, Peggy McFarlin had also been a student at the Museum Scho ol in Boston (1926-1930) and she and Adelaide created wonderful little handmade christmas cards which they exchanged in the 1930's (# 1).

MORE TRAVELS AND VISITS
The following is from Claire (McFarlin) Viviani to PFM (# 4); "...Our trips were three. The first was in 1970, which Grandma Polly (Adelaide) took me on a 6 week guided tour of Europe, starting in England, by bus, and finishing in Italy. Absolute ly fabulous. The following year both Kirk and Adelaide took me to the Far East during my Christmas Holiday, for about 4 weeks. I especially remember celebrating my 16th birthday in Tokyo, which was our first stop. They had a Japanese friend that j oined us. After, we went to Kyoto and then Taipei and Manila. Then we returned to Taipei where we spent Christmas. Grandpa (Kirk) must have had some type of business he was taking care of during this trip as I met a couple more friends (Chinese) a nd one of their wives who joined us for dinner. Then it was on to Hong Kong and Bangkok and HuaHin. After this part of the trip we headed to Beirut and after that, home. This too was a wonderful experience, and I definitely got the impression tha t a lot of it was business, as Grandma and I did other things, like shopping, swimming and Kabuki Theater.
"The last trip was with just Grandma, to Greece (ca 1974/5 - ed.). I was already in college, and I think it was because she had always wanted to go and had never had the opportunity, and she knew how much I loved Ancient History.
Every summer, after we moved back to the States (from Guatemala to Ann Arbor in 1969 - ed.), I would try to go out and visit and I would spend a couple of weeks with them. Grandma taught me calligraphy (which she did so beautifully) and Japanese f lower arranging (Ikibana) and Chinese cooking with a real wok (in those days, that was impressive). We always managed to get in to New York at least once - by train, bus and subway, and go to the Metropolitan Museum, and could not come home unles s we stopped at Chock-Full-O-Nuts and bought a dozen of their donuts. I also would help Grandpa in the (home) office. This was after he had retired from his job in the city (which he too rode the train into), and had resumed working at home for Ri fe Hydraulic. I would help with typing letters, sending information to people who requested it and general office work."
Adelaide's application for her SS number in October of 1955 indicated her employer at the time was the nearby Millburn High School (which, in 2008, became the top-rated high school in New Jersey). Her grand-daughter Gina McFarlin came to live wit h them (Polly and Everett) in 1984/1985 for a year and attended school there, graduating from Millburn High in 1985.
After Polly's husband Kirk had passed on in 1977, she continued living in the Delwick Lane house with Everett until they both moved to Houston to be near her family; grand-daughters Gina and Lissa and occasionally, son Kirk, when he came to the st ates from Guatemala. Adelaide lived to be in her 100th year there in Houston and passed on in Oct of 1999.

(Research):NOTES AND REFERENCES
Peter had first learned of his aunt Polly McFarlin from his mother Peggy McFarlin and aunt Mary Applegate, while growing up and living in Wellesley, MA. They both always spoke highly of Polly and had fond memories of her from Short Hills.
(# 1) - 1974 Peter Folsom McFarlin (PFM); 9-10 October; Personal conversations between PFM and his uncle Kirk and aunt Polly McFarlin while at their home in Short Hills NJ. These were willingly taped and later transcribed to text.
(# 2) - 2008 data from Gina (McFarlin)
(# 3) - 1983 "An Interview with Mrs Kirk (Polly) McFarlin of 24 Delwick Lane, Short Hills" in, The Thistle; by the Millburn/Short Hills Historical Society, Fall, 2004 V 34 pp 13 - 20.
(# 4) - 2008 data from Claire (McFarlin) Viviani.

OTHER SOURCES
- 1900 - census; NYC, Kings co, New York ED 133 pp 138a, 138b; Ruth (sic) Hollenbeck (patient) a 1/12 b May 1900 and Adelaide Hollenbeck (patient) a 28 b Jan 1878, both in Brooklyn Maternity Hospital, St John's Place, Brooklyn.
- 1910 - census; Maplewood, Essex co, New Jersey ED 218; Adalaide Hollenbeck (at school) a 9 with her parents Everett and Adalaide Hollenbeck and servant Fannie Brudy, all living at Curtiss Place.
- 1919 - in; History of the School district of South Orange and Maplewood; by Foster, 1930, p 303; List of graduates of Columbia High School with Adelaide Sutherland Hollenbeck graduating in 1919.
- 1920 - census; Maplewood, Essex co, New Jersey ED 324; Adelaide's parents are listed living at 24 Curtis Place with her uncle, Charles Byrne, (young Adelaide was not listed there, or located elswhere - she was probably living at Wellesley Colleg e whose US census records were not found.)
- 1924 - US Passport #378120 (Washington) issued to; Adelaide Hollenbeck, single b May 19 1900 in Brooklyn, New York, now living at 22 Curtis Place, Maplewood, New Jersey and occupied as a student. She was 5' 6", blue eyes, light hair. Planning t o leave on the Leviathan, May 3rd for; British Isles, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. Travelling with her parents Adelaide and Everett Hollenbeck
- 1928 - Passenger list for the SS America, arriving at NYC June 8th 1928 from Hamilton, Bermuda; Adelaide McFarlin b 1900 Brooklyn, NY and Kirk McFarlin b 1892 Topeka, Kan, both married and living at Delwick Lane, Short Hills, NJ.
- 1930 - census; Millburn, Essex co, New Jersey ED 7-506; Adelaide McFarlin wife a 29 b NY with Kirk McFarlin a 37 b KA and Hilda Reinhauer maid a 23 b Germany, all living at Delwick Lane.
- 1955 - (Oct 11th) SS Application # 143-30-1568 for Adelaide Hollenbeck McFarlin of PO Box 401,Short Hills, NJ a 55 b May 19 1900, employed by Millburn High School.
- 1999 - SS Death Index for Adelaide H McFarlin, #143-30-1568, last resided in Houston, Texas; b 19 May 1900 d 1 Oct 1999.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: William Kirk McFarland

Notes:

WILLIAM KIRK MCFARLAND/MCFARLIN 1860 - 1943 by Peter F McFarlin - 2008

THE EARLY YEARS
William Kirk McFarland was born at the Anderson McFarland family farm, on the Hazelton road in Coitsville, Ohio March 12th, 1860. He was the sixth child of Anderson and Sarah Jane Kirk(patrick) McFarland, and the first son to live to maturity. Th e William part of his name came from his grandfather William, born in Ireland in 1780, and the Kirk part was from his mother's shortened maiden name. By 1879, in his Ohio State University registration, Will had changed his last name's spelling fro m McFarland to McFarlin, as did his brother, Thomas Edward McFarlin.
He had three older sisters; Vine, by six years, Olive, by four years, and Betty, by two years. In the early years it's likely they helped their mother care for him, and also were likely his first playmates, which soon included his brother Frank , born in 1864, when William was aged four. Soon after that, William started at the local country school nearest to his home. He attended during the winter months, and then, in the long summer vacation, which usually began in spring and overlappe d into autumn, he would probably spend in assisting his father in the operation of the home farm. Young William was required by his family to stay working on the home farm until he reached twenty-one.

LEARNING MORE
When the family moved up to their larger farm in the Coitsville village center, his father also became the town's postmaster, for a period of seventeen years. This was during the 1860's and 1870's, and visits to the post office quite possibly gav e young William a taste of the larger world expanding into the west via the many railroads being built. Also, both of his sisters, Vine and Bettie were school teachers around 1878-80 while they were still living at home, and may have had some infl uence on William's desire to continue his own schooling.
From discussions (# 1, # 2, # 3) between Peter F McFarlin (PFM) and his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in 1966 and 1974, it was learned that William McFarlin was enrolled in the newly formed Ohio State University, in Columbus, while still at his fa ther's farm. The 1862 federal Land Grant Act provided for the proceeds from the sales of public lands to be used by the states to "finance colleges whose leading object was to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes , primarily in the areas of agriculture and mechanics." Classes began in the new Ohio college in September, 1873, with twenty-four students enrolled on the first day. In 1878, the first class of six men graduated, and in 1879 the University gradua ted its first woman.
Upon writing Ohio State, their response to PFM (# 4) was; "The original registration book of the University shows a Will K McFarlin to have registered in September, 1879. He gave his residence as Coitsville, Ohio, his age as 19, and his parent o r guardian as A. McFarlin. He attended the University for one term taking Elementary Physics (in which he received a grade of pass), First Year Civil Engineering (passed with merit), and Second Year Agricultural Drawing (passed)."
The June 1st, 1880 Coitsville census for Anderson McFarland indicates that his son William is attending school at age twenty. The next year, when William reached twenty-one, he immediately left home for work with the Rock Island Railroad Line.

CAREER IN RAILROADING
As uncle Kirk explained it to PFM in 1974 (ibid.# 3)... "In those years, all farm boys were apprenticed to the family. I call it apprenticeship, they served without pay until they were twenty-one, the year of maturity in those days. At which tim e they had served their time, so-to-speak, and were free to do as they wished. Some stayed on the farm, maybe inherited it, you know, and others went out. Apparently he went out immediately he was free. I don't think he cared for farming. The onl y word that we have is that he joined the Rock Island Railroad, and that was quite a firm then."
In 1882, when Will was twenty-two, the History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties writes..."William K (McFarlin) is now engaged on the new through line in the capacity of civil engineer..."(# 5 Williams p 175). He continued engineering and surveyin g for the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe railroad in the early to mid 1880's. He was helping to establish their new lines in Kansas, westward from Topeka. The 1885 Kansas state census lists Wm McFarland rooming at widow Cora VanBuskirk's, in Whit e Cloud, Kansas. This was, at the time, a fading corn and wheat milling town which had shipped a great deal of Kansas grains via the Missouri River. William's younger brother, Edward McFarlin also worked for the railroads and later married Anna, o ne of the VanBuskirk daughters.

Kirk continues; "He got some job on the Rock Island and this became almost a permanent, or long-time connection. He apparently surveyed the lines as they were laid west and that is where he met up with the man who would become his partner, who's n ame was Frank Hyde. They were men of an age. He had come from ... Wisconsin? And they became very close friends."

MCFARLAND, KANSAS
Kirk continued with another story to PFM; "...I think he was probably a division engineer by that time (1887) and he worked up and down a division. As they went along, each time they built a water tank, they named a town you see, and when they ra n out of names, they used his - which is our only claim to fame." The present small town of McFarland, Kansas, about thirty miles west of Topeka, had a population of 271 in 2000, and is still located just on the north side of the through rail line , and just south of exit 330 of Interstate 70. In October 2007, while passing through, Peter visited the town, looked over the railroad line, met with the town historian and read all the extant references to confirm(?) the family story. William Mc Farland/McFarlin's name doesn't show up in any reference and, in fact, the town was named after another; Judge Noah C McFarland of Topeka in the year 1887. Perhaps William was an engineer on the line at the time, and helped to lay out the line, bu t the town was not named for him.
In 1890 William was listed in the Kansas City directory living in Kansas City at 122 Reynolds Ave, and then Topeka, Kansas by 1891.

MARGARET WILTSIE
When asked how William met his future wife, Margaret Wiltsie, uncle Kirk explained..."I think, while he was working in Kansas, he came in contact with certain people in Topeka who had membership in a camp in Colorado. This was in the near vicinit y of Creede, which is up at the top of the divide at the head waters of the Rio Grande. My mother was invited there by a different family, to the same fishing camp. They met there under those vacation conditions in the early days of that country , 'cause that was the late 'eighties. He'd been west and was progressing back to Chicago. I have some of his courtship letters that were written from points in Kansas. Well, so one thing led to another, the letters were very formal; courtship lett ers of those days...It came to the point that they were married...in Elgin, where her family were."
In January of 1891, for their marraige license, William Kirk McFarlin, age thirty-one, gave his place of residence as Topeka, Kansas, and occupation as; superintendent of railroad maintenance. Margaret Welles Wiltsie gave her age as twenty-six an d residence as Elgin, Illlinois. They were married in Elgin, Illinois June ninth, 1891, by A H Ball, pastor of the 1st Congregational Church. The witnesses to the marraige were Mr. John Wiltsie and Carrie Dickenson. The groom's parents were Anders on McFarlin and Sarah J Kirk. William's place of birth was Coitsville, Ohio. The bride's parents were John C Wiltsie and Mary Welles, and Margaret was born in Elgin, Illinois.
The first of their two children, Charles Kirk McFarlin, our quoted story-teller here, was born in Topeka in June of 1892. However, no official record could be found in any of the Kansas state files which might help show where they lived and Willia m's occupational status then. No William McFarland/McFarlin owned property in the Topeka area at that time either.

COMING EAST
William settled for a few years in Davenport, Iowa by 1894 where he is found listed as the Superintendent of Maintenence and Construction for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co. The Iowa state census of 1895 also lists William, Margar et and Charles, but spelled McFarland. In 1896 Davenport, William McFarlin lives at 1751 Grand Ave and in 1898 at 409 E 14th, Davenport.
Kirk relates more of his father's story, picking up a few years later-on, in the late 1890's..."Continuing his history, he was stationed in Davenport, Iowa, when some opening came up, here in the east, to which he was introduced by his friends i n the Rock Island. And he came east to become chief engineer of this road here - the Lackawanna system from here to Buffalo. The headquarters are here (New Jersey), so this is where he came. And that was about 1899 or 1900."
William and his family are found in the June 1st, 1900 East Orange, New Jersey US census, renting at 16 Hawthorne Avenue. He is listed as a Chief Engineer for the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Living in the household are his wife Marga ret, age thirty-five, son Charles, age eight, and William's mother-in-law J Mary Wilsey, who was sixty-seven. Donald Welles McFarlin, his second son, is born there in October of 1900.

RR CAREER AND INVENTIONS
"Now, he..." (William) "... stayed with them in that position for about ten or twelve years. In the meantime, his later-to-be partner (Hyde) had become a very successful railroad builder and he had even built one of the Grand Central Stations. An d so eventually he left the Lackawanna and they went together as contractors to railroads. That was about 1910, and they worked here in that way until 1925. (McFarlin family anecdote has it that Kirk laid out much of the newer railroad systems i n New Jersey.) "But the war caused them difficulties because the war was a complete changeover in the method of doing business and he and his partner had been brought up to do business by hand and by word, not by contract. Then when the age of con tracts came in, and the unions, this they couldn't combat. So at that time they both began to retire."
While active in the railroad contracting business, William's engineering mind came up with the practical idea of improving the outdoor railroad platform roofs, which shed water and snow down onto the passengers while they were getting on and off t he trains. His new design had a row of single supporting columns in the center of the platform between the two railroad tracks at the station. These columns held up the protective, reversed roof by a cantilevered truss, all of which appears as a ' Y' shape in cross-section, and which cupped the 'elements' away from the patrons and down central drain pipes. This simple innovation was revolutionary and most all railroad termini installed them until they became commonplace. William never paten ted the design himself and so never gained recognition or royalties.
William is listed in the 1910 East Orange, New Jersey census, owning his own home at 180 Glenwood Avenue, age fifty, a railroad manager and married nineteen years. He is living with his wife Margaret and sons Charles K, age eighteen and Donald, ag e nine. They also have one Swedish servant cooking for them. Whoever the informant was on April 25th that year (wife Margaret?), gave some erroneous data to the census taker, by saying that William "MacFarland" was born in Scotland, with both pare nts born in Scotland, and being a naturalized citizen in 1885. It is certain that William was born in Coitsville, Ohio, proven with data taken from many other records and reports.
The partner of William's was Frank Davis Hyde, born in Wisconsin, and occupied as a railroad contractor. He was listed in the 1910 South Orange, New Jersey census, living at 576 Center Street with his wife Ada and their only child, a newborn daugh ter Frances. They had three Finnish servants; cook, maid and waitress.
By the 1920 census, William, Margaret and their two sons are now found living at 170 Glenwood Ave in East Orange, which is about a mile and a half walk from a RR station into NYC. William is occupied as a railroad contractor and as an employer. Th e family is now prosperous enough to have five others in their service at their home: George Ader, age forty-nine, chauffeur; Anna Ader, cook, age forty-five; Carrie Ader, nurse, age nineteen (the three Aders were black and born in New Jersey); El izabeth M Merritt, widow age forty-two, maid; and Margaret A O'Connor, age sixty-one, maid. All these domestic helpers are living in the garage at the rear of the main house. (In 2008, Google Earth shows the home from both the air and the street l evel.) In 1920, Frank Hyde, William's partner of about fifteen years, was still living with his wife Ada and daughter Frances a few miles away at 471 Center Street in South Orange. That census lists him also as a railroad contractor, and being a n employer. They, too, are prospering well enough to have four servants who are living with them.

DIFFICULTIES
We pick up uncle Kirk's story again about this time..."Now my father - it was in 1921 or 1922 that my father and mother separated. My father set up single living in an apartment down in East Orange. My brother went with him. He (William) lived a t a small family hotel down in East Orange and my mother lived variously in this area here. Always by herself, never with us."
William took a trip to Hawaii in 1923, returning to San Francisco on February 21st after a two day passage from Honolulu. This was perhaps to relax and settle his mind after the separation. Again, in 1926, William Kirk McFarlin returns to the US f rom another trip, this time in the West Indies, where he cruised for a month on the S.S. California during the month of January. He gives his birth place as Youngstown, Ohio and address in the United States as; 90 West St NY, NY, likely his plac e of business. In March of 1928 William arrives back from Cherbourg, France from another trip, with his home address given as 120 Hamson (sic=Harrison) St, East Orange, NJ
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RIFE - AND A BUSINESS THEFT
Question by PFM to his uncle Kirk; "When did the Rife Company come in?"(# 6)
"Well, this is how that happened. About the time he and Frank Hyde had completed some substantial work for the Lackawanna, they had a period of nothing to do. Some clever promoters from down in Roanoke who had opened an office up here, had manage d to work off a substantial part of the stock of this company on my father and Frank Hyde. They were then not active, so it looked like a good business. So they decided they'd get into this. Acquired enough of the stock to make it possible. He wa s an inactive stockholder from 1910 to 1918, then they were more engaged and he went into it to fill time. From that time on he continued, even though the company's condition went to pot - terribly.
"It (Rife) had been founded in '85. and he became active from 1920 until 1927. At that time, the office manager, in whom he had entrusted everything...and his wife, who was his book keeper, committed the inevitible; they walked out one night wit h all the records of the company. And they had all the customer lists, and they set up business right down the street. There were a great many details involved that I had to become familiar with in the process...He had an infinite faith in people . This was one of the causes of his difficulties, because when I had to step into this picture, I discovered that there was a great deal of dishonesty at his expense during the progress of this business which he had tried to operate during the yea rs. I have to admit I saw this through settling several of his scores...in process of continuing what had to be done.
"But, the men of that generation were simply sitting ducks for the slap-happy crowd that came up with the two wars, you know. The times changed...It was a different generation. They dealt by the word, not the written agreement or with lawyers. H e would not deal with a lawyer. Repeatedly, as he went through history, there were occasions where he was taken advantage of because he did not have faith in lawyers. He would rather forget it.
"This created an almost impossible condition which my father fought for the rest of his life. When he died - and in my opinion - considerably from the conditions resulting from the Depression. You see, this fellow took off and immediately followe d the Depression which was followed by the recovery of the late 'thirties, and then the War. It was enough to knock a stronger man out. He was eighty-two when he died. I think it had considerable to do with his death. The strain and this disappoin tment, you know?"
The census of 1930 finds William K McFarlin, age seventy, living alone at 120 Harrison Street, East Orange, renting for $120 a month. He reports that he is married, was born in Ohio and was currently occupied as a construction engineer.
During 1935 to 1937 he was occasionally invited over to his son Donald's home to visit with Donald, wife Peggy and their little daughter Alison and baby son Peter. He took his 1936 Thanksgiving dinner there, (with their little dogs and cat at hi s feet getting turkey scraps). "We played rummy too, and had a good time." (Peggy McFarlin letter)
Kirk continues, regarding Mrs McFarlin's financial support from William and the Rife company..."Now, this I did want to say to you, which I think is a matter of great interest. As my mother's condition became more and more difficult, it becam e - I had tried to stay out of this affair - I had spent years trying to keep it together and when it failed, I let it go. I mean I stayed away from it. I supported my mother, which I thought was the right thing to do. But, as the years went on, i t became necessary, as a matter of fact, I was the fiscal agent, everything came through me. My father did his best to offer support..." (to wife Margaret) "...until the time when he passed away. But we came to have considerable respect for each o ther. We used to visit him down at this little hotel. I'd often stop there on a saturday afternoon. He had a room. He was very happy because he could have his food, he could have everything and there was this room.
"He had three things in that room outside of the furniture, most of which they had furnished. Let me think, he had a bible, he had a dictionary, and he had an atlas. That was the furnishings of his room. He, of course, was always reading, he woul d get a book, but he would pass it on, or return it where it came from."

WILLIAM'S CHARACTER
"But, I have thought that any man who has mastered himself to the point of disposing of all of his - everything worldly - was something really extraordinary.
"He was a tremendous reader, he had definite characteristics. He was a great naturalist, tremendously informed. He had been a very expert golfer in his time...He was a very gregarious person. He had many, many friends and he was highly esteemed b y an awful lot of people... but when it came to politics, I guess he and I were somewhat the same, we never took it seriously... He was always a decent man, but to my knowledge never really had a (church) affiliation...
"He was an extremely social person...but he went more to the company of men. Of course, you see this thing (living together with his wife and socializing together) was cut off when he was sixty - about the time of this break and thats a hard tim e to judge.
"His hair was a very dark brown, not black, (later) his hair was white... He always had good color and he had extremely strong, blue eyes...In later years he suffered from cataracts. He had one eye repaired...I did hear he had had a heart attack , but I was never told about it. Outside of this eye trouble, that was all I knew of. He was a very strong man...and was six feet, but he was heavier than I am, even when he died, he was heavier. (than Kirk's 160 lbs)
"Eventually he passed away very quietly and very quickly, hurrying up a pair of stairs to take a train to his office, at the age of eighty-two. Bang, just like that."

PASSING
William Kirk McFarlin died unexpectedly on a Monday morning at the Brick Church railway station platform in East Orange. He was on his way to work, as usual. His son, Charles Kirk McFarlin, of Delwick Lane, Short Hills, New Jersey, gave informatio n for William's death certificate in 1943, saying William was a mechanical engineer, living at Hotel Alvord, East Orange, New Jersey, born March 12, 1860 in Coitsville, Ohio, son of Anderson McFarlin and Sarah (Patty-Betty?) Jane Kirk, both born i n Coitsville. The medical examiner gave reason for death as, "Sudden death on Brick Church Station platform; Cardiac failure, arteriosclerotic heart disease, Dec 6, 1943, 8:20 am." William was cremated (and buried?) at Rosehill Cemetery, Linden, N ew Jersey, December 9th, 1943.

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Whenever asked by Peter in later years, his mother, Peggy McFarlin and his aunt Mary (Folsom) Applegate always spoke highly of his grandfather William and were sorry not to have continued contact over his remaining years, from 1938 to 1943.

NOTES AND REFERENCES
(# 1) McFarlin; 1966 - In October, while living in Riverdale, NJ and working at Alpine Geophysical Associates in Norwood, NJ, PFM first ever looked up (and 'phoned) his uncle Kirk and aunt Polly McFarlin. This was followed in November by a visit f rom PFM to the McFarlin's home on Delwick Lane in Short Hills, NJ. At that time, uncle Kirk gave PFM a small amount of data and information.
(# 2) McFarlin; 1974 - Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9 , 1877 (1897?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes, photos and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had th e bible and notes in his possession at that time.
(# 3) McFarlin; 9-10 October, 1974 - Personal conversations between PFM and Kirk and Polly McFarlin at their home in Short Hills NJ. These were willingly taped and later transcribed to text. Occasional letters from Uncle Kirk to PFM followed betwe en 1967 and March of 1977, one month before Kirk died.
(# 4) Ohio State University; March, 1971 letter to Peter McFarlin
(# 5) History of Mahoning and Trumbull Counties; Williams; 1882 v 2
(# 6) Rife Hydraulic Engine Manufacturing Co, Millburn, NJ; 1965, Water pumps driven only by the water's gravity power.

OTHER SOURCES
-1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13 with his father Anderson McFarland (William K's age 4 months, born in Ohio)
-1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 with his father Anderson McFarland (William's age 9, born in Ohio, attending school)
-1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio ED 95 p 89 with his father Anderson McFarland (W K's age 20, son, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio, attending school)
-1885 census; Kansas, White Cloud, Doniphan co p 2; Wm Mcfarland sic a 25, single, b Ohio, came from Ohio to Kansas, residing at 30 yr-old widow Cora VanBuskirk's rooming house, with her daughters; Anna 14 and Edith 10, and; Thomas Cecil a teache r of Ohio a 30, James McConnor a clerk of Missouri a 18, George Westfall a boat captain of Kansas a 25, and Lucy Moore a cook of Kansas a 18.
-1890 city directory; Kansas City 1890/1891; "William McFarlin r 122 Reynolds avenue"
-1891 marraige register #2 Illinois State board of Health p 296; marraige license # 7511; Wm Kirk McFarlin and Margaret W Wiltsie.
-1900 census; East Orange, Essex co, New Jersey ED 180 p 201(his age 39, born in Ohio March 1861, m 9 yrs, Chief Eng Delaware, Lackawanna and Western RR, renting house at 16 Hawthorne Ave)
-1893 city directory; Davenport, Iowa;
-1910 census; East Orange City, Essex co, New Jersey ED 163 p 266 (his age 50, m 19 yrs, born in Scotland, b parents b Scotland, nat 1885, manager of railroad, working, owns home free of mtg at 180 Glenwood Ave)
-1920 census; East Orange, Essex co, New Jersey ED 31 p 70 (his age 50, born in Scotland-overwritten by Ohio, b parents b in Ohio, working as a Railroad Contractor employer, owns home free of mtg at 170 Eastwood St corn of Glenwood Ave)
-1930 census; East Orange City, Essex co, New Jersey ED 376 p 167 (his age 70, still married, married at age 30, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio, working as a Construction Engineer for highway, rents with 7 other households at 120 Harrison St , for $112/month)
-1943 New Jersey State Department of Health; death certificate

William married Margaret Welles Wiltsie on 9 Jun 1891 in Elgin, Kane, Illinois, USA. Margaret was born on 24 Sep 1864 in Elgin, Kane, Illinois, USA; died on 26 Mar 1949 in Springfield, Union, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Apr 1949 in St Stephens Cemetery, Millburn, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MARGARET (WILTSIE) MCFARLIN 1864 -1949 by; Peter F McFarlin - 2008

TEACHER UNTIL AGE TWENTY-SIX
Margaret Welles Wiltsie was born 24 September, 1864 in Dundee, Illinois. She had an older brother Charles, born in 1858 who died of dysentery at age one and a half. Also, an older sister Bertha (Bertie), born in 1861, who died at just thirteen mon ths old. Margaret was therefore, the oldest of the remaining three children of John C and Mary (Welles) Wiltsie. She had two younger brothers; George Wiltsie, born 1868 and Walter Wiltsie born 1871.
In 1870, when age six, young Maggie (as she was called then) lived in Dundee, Illinois on her parents farm. Ten years later, Maggie and family were living in Elgin, Illinois and her father had gone into the cattle dealing business.
PFM's uncle Kirk McFarlin (Margaret's son) relates in 1974; "She began teaching - she was a teacher at sixteen (1881) which was in those days not uncommon, in the Elgin Academy and I think she went from there to the schools in Evanston, at which t ime she was married." (# 1)

CAMPING AT CREED
While William McFarlin was working in Kansas in the late 1880's, "...he came in contact with certain people in Topeka who had membership in a camp in Colorado - in the near vicinity of Creed, which is up at the top of the divide, at the head water s of the Rio Grande. My mother was invited there, by a different family, to the same fishing camp. They met there under that vacation condition - in the early days of that country. My mother was teaching school in (Elgin) Ill, where she was spons ored by a very fine family, who were the ones who were responsible for her being out there at that camp. and she was very much taken with Colorado at the time. Somewhere there used to be a scrapbook that she had made at that time. Well - so one th ing led to another; the courtship letters were very formal in those days."

WEDDING AND HOUSEKEEPING
When Margaret and William were married in 1891, the certificate was signed by Rev A H Ball, member of the 1st Congregational Church of Elgin, Illinois. She and William had their first child, Charles Kirk McFarlin, born in Topeka, Kansas. Then the y had Donald Welles McFarlin in 1900 while living in East Orange, New Jersey.
Kirk relates in 1974; ..."Then she came out here (New Jersey) and she was primarily a housekeeper, but she had many interests - cultural interests; a woman's club. I can remember she was always writing papers about something...occasionally interes ted in music but only as an auditor. She was interested in art, she was interested in travel, all in a constrained manner...and the one great thing she did for my brother and I; she was anxious for us to have the best education. She had brown eyes ...and was 5'5" with brown hair. She was considered to be quite a beautiful girl and woman."

CHRISTAN SCIENCE
"She was always religiously interested, as a Presbyterian and perhaps a Congregationalist, but through her difficulties she became a Christian Scientist." Margaret had remained a Congregationalist until becoming a Christian Scientist. "On Novembe r 2, 1917, she joined The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, At the time, Mrs McFarlin was a member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, East Orange, New Jersey, and her address was 170 Glenwood Av enue, East Orange." (# 2) (As to her husband William's religious interests Kirk relates that "...he was always a decent man, but to my knowledge never really had any religious affiliation.")
"And she became very - what I considered to be too - deeply engrossed. At the time when we thought she could have had help for this physical handicap, she would not have it." (PFM says here in 1974: "She relied on the spirituality instead of the p racticality?")..."that's right. She became a Reader...in the Maplewood church - that's the 1st Church (of Christ Scientist). Normally, the man is the 1st Reader, the woman reads the bible and the man reads The Science Now. And she was superintende nt of sunday school for a number of years."

MEETING THE FOLSOMS
her son Donald had met and become friends with, young Eddie Folsom of Brookline, Massachusetts, while at a summer camp in New Hapshire about 1912 and 1913. Her older son Kirk courted Eddie's older sister, Mary Folsom about 1918 through 1924. Thi s was when Kirk was finishing at MIT in Cambridge,Massachusetts adn later when he joined the US Navy flying with the naval air force in England as a meteorollogist during WW I. There are various photos of Kirk and his mother outside the Folsom's B eacon Street home in Brookline and of her canoeing on Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire

SEPARATION
William and Margaret McFarlin separated about 1920-21, likely because of her nervousness (see below) and her extremist views regarding Christian Science and her desire for independence. Son Kirk went to live with his mother, while her son Donald f irst stayed with his father for a while and then, by April of 1930, Donald was enumerated with his mother at her South Terrace address.
After Donald married Peggy Folsom in 1932 Mrs McFarlin lived on her own for the rest of her life, as did her husband, William.
Kirk had a christmas dinner party in 1932 with Margaret, both her sons and their wives plus young Kirk (Mac) and Polly's parents, the Hollenbecks.

STROKE
"As my mother's condition became more and more difficult...she had developed what I considered to have been a nervous condition which persued her until she had this stroke, which I felt was the conclusion of many things. But it was basically a ner vous weakness I thought. That was about 1935-1937; something like that. She was in Florida visiting at the time, seeing some cousins (the Crabtrees). And she was massively handicapped from that time on with paralysis. She had lost all of one side , but she wasn't going to be done in by something like that. And it was twelve years under those impossible conditions. At that time it was possible to obtain help (live-in nursing assistance) in this area which she did obtain then"

PASSING
Margaret Wiltsie McFarlin died 6:30 am, March 26, 1949 at her own home in Springfield, New Jersey at age eighty-four. Her cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage which occured twenty-three days earlier. Also noted as an antecedent cause was cereb ral arteriosclerorsis starting sixteen years earlier, in 1933, when she was sixty-eight. James C Christian, DO, of Harrison St, East Orange, New Jersey, had been her attending physician since 1934, and had last seen her alive the morning she died.
Her son Kirk McFarlin, the informent on Margaret's death certificate, stated that she was born in Dundee, Illinois, September 24, 1864, was now a widow, and had been living at 39 Henshaw Ave, Springfield, Union co, New Jersey for the prior ninetee n months. Further, that she was a housewife, and her father had been John C Wiltsie and her mother's maiden name had been Mary Wells.

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NOTES
(# 1) Peter Folsom McFarlin (PFM); 9-10 October, 1974 - Personal conversations between PFM and his uncle Kirk and aunt Polly McFarlin while at their home in Short Hills NJ. These were willingly taped and later transcribed to text. Many of the McFa rlin (also spelled McFarland therein) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 1897(sic-1877). Ph otocopies of the handwritten vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to PFM by Kirk, who had the bible and notes in his possession at that time.
(#2) 2003 letter from The Mary Baker Eddy Library, Boston MA to PFM.

REFERENCES:
-1870 census; Dundee, Kane co, Illinois p 261 with her father John Wiltsie (Maggie's age 6, born in Illinois, attending school)
-1880 census; Elgin, Kane co, Illinois ED 85 p 322 with her father John Wiltsie
(Maggie's age 15, born in Illinois, f b in NY, m b in NY, attending school)
-1885 Elgin, Illinois city directory; Miss Margaret Wiltsie, Teacher at Elgin Academy, bds 144 South St (with John C Wiltsie)
-1887, 1888 Elgin, Illinois city directories; Miss Margaret Wiltsie, teacher
-1890 Evanston, Illinois city directory; Miss Margaret W Wiltsie, teacher, Hinman Ave School, resides 323 Hinman Ave, Rogers Park
-1891 Illinois State board of Health; register 2 p 296, marraige license # 751, for; William Kirk McFarlin a 31of Topeka, Kansas, and Margaret Welles Wiltsie a 26 of Elgin, Illinois
-1895 census; Davenport, Iowa; William McFarland (sic) a 35, Margt McFarland a 30 and Charles McFarland a 2 b Kansas.
-1900 census; East Orange, Essex co, New Jersey ED 180 p 201 with her husband William (Margaret's age 35, born in Illinois, m 9 yrs, 1 of 1 children alive, b f and m b NY)
-1910 census; East Orange City, Essex co, New Jersey ED 163 p 266b with her husband William (Margaret's age 46, born in Illinois, m 19 yrs, 2 of 2 children alive, b f and m b in US)
-1920 census; East Orange, Essex co, New Jersey ED 31 p 70 with her husband William (Margaret's age 46 sic, born in Illinois, b p b in Ohio sic) living at 170 Eastwood St (Glenwood Ave).
-1930 census; Millburn, Essex co, New Jersey ED 505 p 5b with her son Donald only (Margaret's age 65, born in Illinois, mar when 34, b p b in NY) living at 84 South Terrace
-1949 New Jersey State Department of Health, Certificate of Death #11866

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Anderson McFarland
• Name: Anderson McFarland

Notes:

ANDERSON MCFARLAND/MCFARLIN 1828 - 1890
by; Peter F McFarlin - 2008

This was written in 1881-1882 (*1 p 168) about William (son of John)
McFarland; he "...reared a large family. Eleven children arrived at years of maturity. But one son is living, Anderson, at Coitsville. Four of his daughters are living, viz: Mrs Lydia Mahan, Liberty, Trumbull county; Miss Jemima McFarlin, Niles; M rs Matilda Price, Coitsville, and Mrs Lavina Harris, Youngstown...". In the sketch for William McFarland's wife, Elizabeth Loveland, (*1 p 165), Williams wrote, "...Elizabeth became the mother of six sons and six daughters."
This Anderson McFarland (McFarlin) was born April 12, 1828, at the William McFarland farm on the Hazelton road, Coitsville, Ohio. He was the ninth of twelve children and eventually outlived all of his five older brothers. The 1830 Coitsville censu s first enumerated him in his father's household as the boy under five. Then in 1840, at twelve, he was still the youngest man shown, along with his two older brothers, William age sixteen, and Amos age twenty-eight. It's likely he helped on the f amily farm while he went to the local school, at least until about sixteen, when he farmed at home full time. During the 1840's, he became acquainted with miss Jane Kirk, who lived nearby with her family. Her parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Baldwin ) Kirkpatrick were living in the northwest part of Coitsville in 1850, near Thorn Hill.
Anderson and Sarah Jane were married April 26 1849,(*2),(*3), probably in Coitsville, by A O Rockwell. Soon after, when they are listed in the 1850 census, they are shown in the census-taker's sequence that puts them on the Hazelton road, (perhap s on a part of his father's farm there). The listing order of the 1850 census is particularly informative, in that almost all the neighbors on the later 1874 town map (*4), are enumerated in the same order as in the 1850 census. If true, this woul d put their first small farmstead between the McCartney's and the Vale's farms, and also near the Mahoning River valley farms of Anderson's grand parents, Amos and Jemima Loveland, and their families. Town land records would prove this, or not.
During the next few years, their family life had a number of personal tragedies. Sarah's mother, Elizabeth (Baldwin) Kirkpatrick died in May 1851, age sixty-nine. Then Anderson and Sarah's first child, William E McFarland, died in August, 1851, ju st nine months old. Next, Anderson's father, William McFarland, passed away in December of 1853, his age seventy-three, and finally, Anderson's second child, Alice Kirk McFarland, died in August, 1854, at age two.
But their lives turned for the better, as their next six children lived. In 1860, Anderson apparently was still living on the Hazelton road (near the McCartneys) and was still next to his widowed mother Elizabeth (Loveland) McFarland with her smal l household. Anderson and Sarah at the time, had; Lovina age six, Mary age four, Betsy age two and William Kirk McFarland four months old.
By the next census in 1870, the Anderson McFarland family had prospered. They had moved to a new neighborhood in the center of Coitsville village (see map). Also moving up to the center, in a household next door to Anderson's farm, were his mothe r Elizabeth, brother Amos and sister 'Lucinia' (Lavina). Anderson's farm real estate value had increased by twenty times to over ten thousand dollars, the eighth highest 1870 valuation in the township (out of more than two hundred). About this tim e of 1870-80 the Anderson McFarland/McFarlin family began spelling their last name McFarlin.
Indicated in the 1880 census, Anderson was still farming, Sarah kept house, and five of their six living children were with them, (Mary Olivia McF having moved out). Vine J McFarland, the oldest daughter at twenty-six, was a school teacher, as wa s her sister Betty McFarland, age twenty-two. Perhaps they were both giving classes in the corner school just to the north, a mile and half away on the main road (see map).
William Kirk McFarlin, their oldest son, was now twenty and listed as still attending school, however this 'school' was the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio where William registered at the University as "...Will K McFarlin, son of A McFarli n."(*5). A younger brother, Frank McFarland, age sixteen, was helping on the farm while finishing up his primary schooling, (taught by his sisters?). Anderson's youngest child, Eddie McFarland, age fourteen, was also still in school while living a t home.
Information is given in the 1880 census as to the birth places of the parents of all people listed. This becomes good confirming evidence for tracing obscure data as to various ancestor's locations. For Anderson and Sarah McFarland, the places o f birth given in 1880 are very useful; Anderson's father (William McFarland), was born in Ireland, and his mother, (Elizabeth Loveland), born in Vermont. For Sarah, her father, (Andrew Kirkpatrick), was born in New Jersey, and her mother, (Elizabe th Baldwin), was born in Pennsylvania.
Williams had stated in his 1882 biographical sketch that Anderson had become the "...owner of a good farm of one hundred and ninety acres situated near the center of the township...Mr McFarlin (sic) has been a Republican since the party was formed . He was postmaster at Coitsville for seventeen years. The family are well known and highly respected in this county" (*1 p 175).
Anderson died in August 1890, at the age of sixty-two, probably at his home/farmstead in Coitsville center.

PFM's sources for Anderson McFarland(McFarlin); Farmer, Postmaster;

1830 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 249 with his father William (Anderson's age <5)
1840 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 190 with his father William (Anderson's age 10-15)
1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 584 (his age 22, farmer, born in Ohio)
1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13 (his age 32, farmer, born in Ohio, real value $450, pers value $600)
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 (his age 42, farmer, born in Ohio, spelled McFarland, real value $10,220, pers value $1,630)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 (his age 52, farmer, born in Ohio, spelled McFarland, father b in Ireland, mother b in Vermont)
Other References;
*1 Williams; 1882 v 2
*2 McFarlin; 2008 Many of the McFarlin births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarlin by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 1877 (1897?). Ph otocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and notes in his po ssession at that time.
*3 Marraiges of Mahoning county; 1846-1851 p 108
*4 1874 Map of Coitsville, Ohio
*5 1971 letter to P F McFarlin from Ohio State University
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Anderson married Sarah Jane Mary Kirk on 26 Apr 1849 in Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA. Sarah was born on 21 Jan 1830 in Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio, USA; died in 1893 in Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio, USA; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Sarah Mary Kirk

Notes:

"...Mrs McFarlin is the daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Kirk. Andrew Kirk came at an early date from Washington county, Pennsylvania; he was originally from New Jersey. Elizabeth Baldwin was the daughter of Caleb Baldwin, one of the fir st settlers in Youngstown..."(*1 p 175).
Sarah Jane Kirk, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Kirk(patrick), was the youngest of thirteen children. Her father Andrew was one of the first blacksmiths in Youngstown, Ohio (about 1800). Andrew's blacksmith shop (and home?) was next t o Caleb Baldwin on the north side of Federal street in 1805 -10. Caleb reportedly had given his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Andrew a farm of fifty-three acres nearby in Coitsville, just south of the Thorn Hill area on the McGuffey road. Thi s farm they made their homestead at least by 1826, and Sarah was born there in Coitsville, Ohio, January, 1830.
In 1849, at age nineteen, Sarah married Anderson McFarland, who grew up on the William McFarland farm, two miles to the south on the other side of Dry Run Creek in Coitsville. The young couple first lived on the Hazelton road near his father Willi am's farm, where they began their family. They lived in this area for at least the next ten years and, with many of their neighbors, attended the nearby Methodist Episcopal church on the Youngstown-New Bedford (PA) road where the Poland road inter sects it (*1 p 170).
By 1870 they had moved to a larger farmstead two miles east, just to the north side of Coitsville center near the Bissels and McGeehans (see 1870's Coitsville map). Here, on their large farm of 190 acres, they remained at least until 1882 when Wil liams writes of them and their children in the History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties (*1 p 175). They had nine children, with two dying young.
In 1877 (1897?) Sarah (Kirk)McFarland presented her husband Anderson's family bible to her oldest son, William Kirk McFarlin (along with a small, ca 1875 photo of her brother, Thomas Kirk) (*2).
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Sarah McFarland's date and place of death have not been located and further searching of vital and church records is needed here.

Sources for Sarah Jane Kirk(patrick)
1830 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 248 with her father Andrew Kirkpatrick (her age <5)
1840 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 190 with her father Andrew Kirkpatrick (her age 5-15)
1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 584 (her age 20, born in Ohio)
1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13 (her age 30, born in Ohio)
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio 107 (her age 40, born in Ohio, keeping house)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 (her age 50, wife, born in Ohio, keeping house, father b in New Jersey, mother b in Penna)
1890 census; not extant
1900 census; Sarah McFarland(McFarlin) not found

Other References
*1 Williams; 1882 v 2
*2 McFarlin; 2003 Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 187 7 (1897?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and notes in his po ssession at that