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Robert E.(Col) McFarland was born in Hartford Twp, Trumbull Co. Ohio. The son of Thomas and Martha (Fell) McFarland. He started a harness making business in 1838 on the north side of State St. west of the river. He served the office of Burgess for the city of Sharon in 1851, 1861, 1879 and 1881 and was a member of Coucil and the School Board several times. His home was on the corner of S. Main and Wahington Ave. in Sharon. They were members of the Methodist Church. He was a founding member of the Masonic Lodge. His Wife Chole (Fuller) McFarland is a decendent of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower.
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OBJE: _META <metadataxml><content><line><p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">ROBERT MC FARLAND, retired harness maker, was born in Hartford Township, Trumbull Co., Ohio, March 10, 1815. His grandparents, Robert McFarland an
CONC d wife, immigrated from Ireland to the vicinity of Harrisburg, Penn., whence they removed to Washington County, Penn., and settled near Steubenville, Ohio. In 1800 they removed to Hartford Township, Trumbull Co., Ohio, where Robert died May 1, 1815
CONC , and his widow several years afterward. They reared three sons and four daughters: Thomas, Archibald, John, Martha, Polly, Jane and Peggy. The sons lived and died in Hartford Township; Martha married William Dugan, and after his death Azariah Dunh
CONC am; Polly married Hugh McDowell, and Jane married John Canon, and subsequently George Shilling. Thomas, the father of our subject, was born near Harrisburg, Penn., in 1794, and grew up under the parental roof. He married Martha, daughter of Natha
CONC n Fell, of Pymatuning Township, Mercer Co., Penn., who bore him five children: Nathan, Robert, Smith,!</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">George an
CONC d Cynthia, wife of Lewis Holland, of Trumbull County, Ohio. The mother died in 1827, and he again married, Mrs. Nancy McKnight, and reared three children by this union: Thomas F., Amelia and Phoebe. He and his brother, Archibald, served under Harri
CONC son in the War of 1812, and he survived until 1882, dying on the old homestead in Trumbull County. Our subject left home at the age of seventeen, and went to learn the harness business, at which he served a full apprenticeship, and then spent eight
CONC een months in a jouring tour through the Eastern States and Canada, reaching Sharon in February, 1838. The following month he went to Pittsburgh in a one-horse sleigh, purchased a small stock of leather and hardware, and, returning to Sharon, opene
CONC d a harness shop on the north side of State Street, west of the river. He began business on a capital of $18, but by steady industry and rigid economy he accumulated through the passing years a handsome estate. Mr. McFarland was marrie!</span>
CONC ;<br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">d May 29, 1838, to Chloe Fuller, of Hartford Township, Trumbull Co., Ohio, who bore him one son, Thomas D., of Sharon. Ou
CONC r subject has been a lifelong Democrat, filled the office of burgess four years, and has been a member of the council and school board several terms. He is one of the two living charter members of Sharon Lodge No. 347, I. 0. 0. F., J. J. Spearman
CONC , Esq., being the other, and is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. He has lived in Sharon over half a century, and is one of the successful pioneer fathers of the town.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">
CONC <br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">History of Mercer County, PA, 1888, page 741</span></p></line></content></metadataxml>
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