Robert Parker McFarland
1814 - 1899 (84 years)
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Name Robert Parker McFarland [1, 2, 3, 4] Birth 29 Oct 1814 , Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA 
[2] Gender Male Residence 1870 Peters, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA [2] Death 26 May 1899 Person ID I23558 MacFarlane Last Modified 29 May 2024
Father John Mcfarland, b. 27 Feb 1782, Mercersburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania d. 18 Dec 1856, Trappe, Delaware, Pennsylvania (Age 74 years) Relationship natural Mother Elizabeth Parker, b. 16 Dec 1789, , , Pennsylvania, USA d. 27 Jan 1845, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 55 years) Relationship natural Marriage 11 Nov 1812 , Franklin of, Pennsylvania Married 11 Nov 1812 Mercersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA [5, 6] Family ID F6963 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Ellen Jane Robinson, b. , , Pennsylvania Children 1. Ann Fuller McFarland [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] + 2. John Davidson McFarland, b. 22 Oct 1846, Pennsylvania, USA d. 10 Apr 1902, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America (Age 55 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. Virginia M McFarland, b. Abt 1849, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. Eliza McFarland, b. Abt 1851, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]5. Mary L McFarland, b. Abt 1852, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]6. Alice R McFarland, b. Abt 1854, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 7. Robert Robison McFarland, b. 24 Mar 1857, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States of America d. 28 Mar 1889, Cole, Missouri, USA (Age 32 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]8. Thomas Franklin McFarland, b. Abt 1859, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]9. David F McFarland, b. Abt 1860, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F7019 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 May 2024
Family 2 Elnor Mcfarland, b. Abt 1824, Pennsylvania Children 1. Virginia M McFarland, b. Abt 1849, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. Eliza McFarland, b. Abt 1851, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. Mary L McFarland, b. Abt 1852, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. Alice R McFarland, b. Abt 1854, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 5. Robert Robison McFarland, b. 24 Mar 1857, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States of America d. 28 Mar 1889, Cole, Missouri, USA (Age 32 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]6. Thomas Franklin McFarland, b. Abt 1859, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]7. David F McFarland, b. Abt 1860, Pennsylvania [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F9166 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 May 2024
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Notes
From "Mount Delight" p. 83-85
ROBERT PARKER McFARLAND, son of Capt. John
and Eliza (Parker) McFarland, was born October 29, 1814,
and died May 26, 1899. He received his education in the
public schools and Washington College. Pa. Shortly after he
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entered college, he took typhoid fever and had to return
home. Had he received a collegiate education, he would have
equaled if not excelled his distinguished brother, Thomas B.
McFarland, at the bar, or in letters. After leaving college, he
learned the carpenter trade, but did not follow it any time.
He soon gave up working in wood and gave his attention to
farming, which he followed until disabled by feeble health and
old age. He spent the greater part of his life at Mount De-
light, the farm of his father and of his father's father. He
married Miss Ellen J. Robinson, a sister of Hon. David F.
Robinson, a prominent member of the Franklin County Bar,
and a member of the 34th Congress from the district of which
this county was a part. Mr. McFarland, like his two pre-
ceding ancestors, was a faithful and consistent member of the
Presbyterian Church of Mercersburg, and that for over fifty
years, and for many years a trustee thereof. He was a worthy
and devout Christian and endeavored to bring up his children
in the "nurture and admonition of the Lord." Well .does the
writer remember, when a boy and a man grown up, when
visiting Mount Delight, we would all, on Sabbath evenings,
be called around the table and required to read verse about of
a psalm or a chapter apiece from the Bible. This was a custom
that it would be well were it more generally followed in this
our day. He would often ask us the Shorter Catechism with-
out a book.
Mr. McFarland in early life was a Whig but since 1856,
an ardent Republican, a great admirer of Horace Greeley, and
a close reader of The New York Tribune, but independent
and opposed to bossism, trickery and corruption in politics, as
well as in business. He was frequently elected a school di-
rector and filled the office conscientiously and with ability. He
was urged, at different times, to run for the Legislature, but
would never consent thereto. He was more than an ordinary
farmer. He was a great reader and had his mind well stored
with information on most subjects. He was a good conver-
sationalist and ever ready to take part in discussions in re-
ligion, literature, politics or any matter pertaining to reform
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of the betterment of his fellowman, his county, State or
Nation. He was a frequent contributor to the county papers,
and a writer of force, who had the courage of his convictions.
He was highly respected and greatly esteemed by all who
knew him. If measured simply by the fortune he left behind
him, he would not be a success in life. But he left that behind
him, which is a far more important legacy to his children and
posterity - a good name, a good example, a fine character, a
life well spent. He was a rugged, honest, noble man.
"The elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, 'This was a man'."
His remains and those of his wife, who preceded him, lie
in Mercersburg cemetery.
CENSUS: 1850 PENNSYLVANIA, Franklin County, Peters Township.
Robt P. McFarland 35 PA Farmer, Ellen Jane 27 PA, Anna 5, John 3, Virginia 1.
CENSUS: 1880 PENNSYLVANIA, Franklin County, Peters Township
R. C. McFarland 65 PA PA PA Eleanor 57 PA PA PA.
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