George William McFarland

1885 - 1974  (88 years)

• Name	George William McFarland  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	11 Jun 1885	St. Clair Co., Illinois
  Gender	Male
  Birth	1886	Illinois   [4]
  Residence	1900	East St Louis Ward 1, St Clair, Illinois   [3, 4]
  Death	1974	Collinsville, Illinois
  Person ID	I28770	MacFarlane
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

  Father	William Thompson McFarland,   b. Abt 1836, St Francois Co., MO d. 22 Mar 1912, Illinois (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth McKensie,   b. 1855, OH d. 30 Mar 1932 (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	8 Feb 1876	St Clair, Illinois, USA   [5]
  Married	8 Feb 1876	St. Clair Co., Illinois   [6]
  Family ID	F5276	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Zella Gertrude Boaz,   b. 14 Jun 1889, Ridgway, Gallatin County, Illinois, United States of America d. 1948, East St. Louis, Illinois (Age 58 years)
  Children	+ 1. Donald George McFarland,   b. 6 May 1909, East St. Louis, St. Clair Co., Illinois d. Dec 1969, Pima Co., Arizona (Age 60 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 2. John "Jack" Boaz McFarland, RoM02,   b. 14 Jan 1913, East St. Louis, St. Clair Co., Illinois d. 16 Feb 1985 (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F6412	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  In the 1920 census, George W. McFarland is 34, born in Illinois from parents born in Missouri, and married to Z. Gertrude, 30, born in Illinois, father KY and mother Illinois. there are two children, Donald george, 10 and John B 6. George is working as a fireman of the steam railroad, and they are living on Ohio Street. In the 1930 census, George W. McFarland is working as a Locomotive Engineer and the family is living on Ohio St. in East St. Louis, St. Clair Co., Illinois, Dist. 53, Image 39. Notes from his grandson, Jonathan Drew McFarland: My father marked that it was his parents. My grandfather Geo. William McF. worked most of his career for the Missouri & Ohio Railroad (later the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio). Originally an Alabama based railroad, he worked from what would have been it's northern terminus during a lot of its history at St. Louis or rather E. St. Louis, Illinois, where his grandfather, John H. moved with the whole immediate clan from the Liberty area late in life. He was promoted from fireman to Engineer in 1920...a position he kept till the late 1950s when he retired. 1906-20 he was a fireman...the guy that shovels the coal and keeps the fire going...that shovel may mean it's before he was promoted, or when he was? His pinnacle was for many years running the The Rebel, from St. Louis to the Gulf...that was the M&O's flagship passenger train. This engine doesn't seem to me to be the sort running a high speed passenger line...and oddly, that cab either should be marked M&O or the number (decommissioned? can't even tell if there is smoke coming out in that pic) I'm sure it would have been the sort he'd have run earlier in his career. I have his detailed job history. Interestingly, his first job, I think age 12, was a messenger for the Wiggins Street Ferry Company. It's not hard to imagine that his uncle Milton P., the Riverboat pilot, may've put a good word in for him or suggested it as a good place to start. He ran The Rebel when it converted over to diesel, and on it's very last run when he was 72 years old. He was also president of his union local for decades.

  
  

• Sources

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