Prof. John A. McFarland, Principal of Washington Academy Salem

1824 - 1888  (64 years)

• Name	John A. McFarland  [1]
  Title	Prof.
  Suffix	Principal of Washington Academy Salem
  Birth	23 Jan 1824	Jackson, Washington, New York, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Name	John A. McFarland  [1]
  Death	8 Mar 1888	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I23824	MacFarlane
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

  Father	Daniel McFarland,   b. 1793, Cambridge, Washington, New York, USA d. 5 Mar 1869, Jackson, Washington, New York, USA (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Jane Shiland,   b. 25 Dec 1799, Cambridge, Washington, New York, USA d. 29 Dec 1889, Washington Co., New York, USA (Age 90 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	19 Feb 1822	Cambridge, Washington, New York, USA   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F9005	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Amanda H. Hawley,   b. 25 Sep 1826   d. Aft 1868 (Age > 43 years)
  Marriage	24 Sep 1849	Cambridge, Washington, New York, USA   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Edwin Stanley MacFarland,   b. 19 Oct 1852, Jackson, Washington, New York, USA d. 1900, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 47 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F9000	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  A son of Daniel is Prof. John A. McFarland, who is now, and has been for nineteen years, principal of Washington Academy, Salem. John A. McFarland was the eldest son ; spent his minority on the farm of his father, availing himself only of the advantages of the district school ; but so improved these opportunities that he was able at the age of eighteen to begin teaching, by which means he secured a sufficient competence to prepare for college, which he did in Cambridge Washington Academy, under Rev. E. H. Newton, D.D., entering in the advance course of third term sophomore of Union College, graduating from that institution of learning in the year 1848. During his college course his health had become considerably impaired, and be went to South Carolina, where he spent some time ; but, regaining his health, engaged as a teacher at Parrotsvillc, Tenn., where he remained aijout one year. In the fall of 1849 he returned north, and was married to Miss Amanda H., daughter of Ransom Hawley and Margaret Tice, of Cambridge. After his marriage he returned south, and was principal of Wytheville Academy for two years, ard from 1856 to 1859 had charge of the Rural Seminary at Pembroke, N. Y. His health again failing, ho returned to his native county, but soon after took charge of Washington Academy, at Salem, Washington Co., N. Y., where he has remained, and still remains (1878), with the exception of two years, for nineteen successive years. Prof. McFarland, in recounting his past history in connection with the last-named institution, is enabled to see tho.se who have graduated under his instruction filling important positions in the various professions, and ranking among the first as attorneys, physicians, clergymen, and business men. His natural ability as an instructor has given him rank nraong the most successful teachers of the State, and secured for him a reputation worthy the emulation of the young men of to-day, who, unassisted, must meet the obstacles coincident with self-made men. He has one son, Edwin Stanley McFarland, of Salem, N. Y. ("History of Washington County" published in 1878)

  
  

• Sources

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