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Mary Helen Haines notes:
From p. 108 from Lola McFarland Hill's book:
GORDON BURNETT MCFARLAND MD, was born 5 mi. N. of Ladonia, Feb. 21, 1893 to James F. and Mary Jane McFarland, the 9th child. He attended Woods Schoolhouse for two terms before moving into Ladonia with his family. He entered the fourth grade in the Ladonia Public School, "skipped" the fifth grade and graduated in a class of eight in 1909. He was still wearing short trousers as was the custom for boys, both young and older at that time. With his first suit of long pants he entered Texas Christian University at Waco Sept. 1909. He was in the dormitory the night the University burned. He went to Fort Worth with the school, where it was housed in downtown buildings. With the new campus far from completed he entered the Fort Worth TCU and roomed in Clark Hall. That first year on the hill was one of many substitutes for convenience. No electricity,and the street car stopped about six or seven blocks. It was a year well spent because it represented the genuine loyalty of the parents to the church school, and many lessons were learned outside the class room. Gordon developed a deep and abiding affection for the school that remained with him all his life. He graduated from TCU in 1913.
The following year he entered the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston, and received his degree from there. He went to Columbia School of Medicine where he did graduate work. While in New York he belonged to the Park Avenue Christian Church and always admired the minister Dr. Finis Idleman. He served his internship at Belleview Hospital and entered the military service during World War I as a First Lieutenant, and went overseas with the American expeditionary Forces, at a Base Hospital #41 in France. He returned to New York in July 1919 and received his discharge there. After a brief stay at home he returned to New York and took his special training in Pediatrics.
He returned to Texas, and began his practice with Dr. Leslie Moore, later moving to 3701 Fairmount where he established his own office. All of the tenure of his private practice his secretary and assistant was Miss Ruth Oliver, who was tireless in her efforts.
He was a consultant at the U of T Southwestern Medical School, and a former staff member of the Baylor University Medical Sch. Dr. McFarland, a staff member of Hope Cottage, had a section of the Children's Medical Center named in his honor. A member of the Dallas County Medical Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics and served as counselor for the Texas Pediatric Society. He was a member of the Northway Christian Church.
He was married in 1932 to Miss Mildred Street of Lubbock and they had three sons, Gordon Burnett McFarland Jr. MD, John Samuel McFarland, and Michael Alvin Street. He had two grandsons, the only ones to carry on the McFarland name, Gordon Burnett McFarland III (Corky) and Wright Ebaugh McFarland. {That is not true any more. MHH}
He died of a heart attack at his home, Sunday evening, about 6:15, October 9, 1966. Services at the Northway Christian Church were attended by more than 700 of his loved ones. Rev. Pat Henry and Rev. Kenneth Hay officiated. He is buried at Restland Memorial Park."
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From Article in Dallas Morning News in 1918: "Lieutenant Gordon B. McFarland of Ladonia has just received a commission as First Lieutenant, Reserve Medical Corps, United States Army, being a member of the base hospital unit from the Universtity of Virginia, to sail at once for service overseas. Lieutenant McFarland was graduated from Texas Christian University in 1914 and from Columbia University, medical, last year. He has just completed a year's internship in two of the New York hospitals. He has been assigned to work in internal medicine with the new unit. Lieutenant McFarland is a son of the late J.F. McFarland and Mrs. Mary Jane McFarland of Ladonia and a younger brother of S.J. McFarland of Dallas."
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Gordon Burnett McFarland Sr. and Jr. were both doctors. Gordon Sr. practiced medicine in Ladonia and in Dallas and there are many wonderful stories remembered about his bedside manner and his home visits--back in the day when that was standard practice.
Here is an excerpt from a letter written by Gordon Jr. to his father which relates a very influential lesson he learned about medicine. "If I am ever a success in life measured by interpersonal relationships it will be because of the greatest single lesson I have ever learned. One night during the summer of 1955 you awakeded me about 2 am to drive you on a call. I was working at Methodist at the time and usually got up in the morning at 5:30 am. I was somewhat indignant when you commented that you didn't think that there was anything wrong but that you thought you might go and take a look. The drive was not far and as I sat in the car I became more and more disgusted that I had to go on an unnecessary house call when I had to be at work so early. When you returned to the car I asked you what was the matter with the child. You said that he was all right. He just had a little colic. I'm afraid that my reaction to this was unbecoming to a son. After I had run out of unkind things to say, you made a comment that I hear inside each time I see the family of a patient. This has truly been a "golden rule" to me throughout my brief medical life. You said, "The baby is not sick but the parents were. They were scared and needed help." I pray that I will never become so callous or so busy that I forget this."
According to Lola McFarland Hill, Gordon was named for two people, Thomas Burnett and Gordon Boone. "We think he will grow up to do honor to your name and that of Gordon Boone who was Sam's friend at Austin College." Tom Burnett is referred to as "Uncle Tom," although he is not related by blood to this branch of the McFarlands, although he is related by marriage to James Franklin's brother, Newton Jackson. In the play written by Lola in 1966 to convey some family history she says about Tom as he enters the house: "It isn't every day the man who taught us both, baptized us both and married us to each other can be our guest." p. 85 from Lola's family history book.
More on WW I:
Once in Europe, he spent time primarily in St. Denis, France with Base Hospital #41, and Coblenz, Germany with the Occupation forces of the Third Army.
Coblenz=After Mainz and Ludwigshafen am Rhein, it is the third largest city in Rhineland-Palatinate, with a population of c. 106,000 (2006). Koblenz lies in the Rhineland, 92 kilometers (57 mi) southeast of Cologne by rail, where the Rhine River and the Moselle come together.
Gordon Burnett McFarland Sr. and Jr. were both doctors. Gordon Sr. practiced medicine in Ladonia and in Dallas and there are many wonderful stories remembered about his bedside manner and his home visits--back in the day when that was standard practice. Here is an excerpt from a letter written by Gordon Jr. to his father which relates a very influential lesson he learned about medicine. "If I am ever a success in life measured by interpersonal relationships it will be because of the greatest single lesson I have ever learned. One night during the summer of 1955 you awakeded me about 2 am to drive you on a call. I was working at Methodist at the ltime and usually got up in the morning at 5:30 am. I was somewhat indignant when you commented that you didn't think that there was anything wrong but that you thought you might go and take a look. The drive was not far and as I sat in the car I became more and more disgusted that I had to go on an unnecessary house call when I had to be at work so early. When you returned to the car I asked you what was the matter with the child. You said that he was all right. He just had a little colic. I'm afraid that my reaction to this was unbecoming to a son. After I had run out of unkind things to say, you made a comment that I hear inside each time I see the family of a patient. This has truly been a "golden rule" to me throughout my brief medical life. You said, "The baby is not sick but the parents were. They were scared and needed help." I pray that I will never become so callous or so busy that I forget this."
According to Lola McFarland Hill, Gordon was named for two people, Thomas Burnett and Gordon Boone. "We think he will grow up to do honor to your name and that of Gordon Boone who was Sam's friend at Austin College." Tom Burnett is referred to as "Uncle Tom," although he is not related by blood to this branch of the McFarlands, although he is related by marriage to James Franklin's brother, Newton Jackson. In the play written by Lola in 1966 to convey some family history she says about Tom as he enters the house: "It isn't every day the man who taught us both, baptized us both and married us to each other can be our guest." p. 85 from Lola's family history book.
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