Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Anderson McFarland
• Name: Anderson McFarland

Notes:

ANDERSON MCFARLAND/MCFARLIN 1828 - 1890
by; Peter F McFarlin - 2008

This was written in 1881-1882 (*1 p 168) about William (son of John)
McFarland; he "...reared a large family. Eleven children arrived at years of maturity. But one son is living, Anderson, at Coitsville. Four of his daughters are living, viz: Mrs Lydia Mahan, Liberty, Trumbull county; Miss Jemima McFarlin, Niles; M rs Matilda Price, Coitsville, and Mrs Lavina Harris, Youngstown...". In the sketch for William McFarland's wife, Elizabeth Loveland, (*1 p 165), Williams wrote, "...Elizabeth became the mother of six sons and six daughters."
This Anderson McFarland (McFarlin) was born April 12, 1828, at the William McFarland farm on the Hazelton road, Coitsville, Ohio. He was the ninth of twelve children and eventually outlived all of his five older brothers. The 1830 Coitsville censu s first enumerated him in his father's household as the boy under five. Then in 1840, at twelve, he was still the youngest man shown, along with his two older brothers, William age sixteen, and Amos age twenty-eight. It's likely he helped on the f amily farm while he went to the local school, at least until about sixteen, when he farmed at home full time. During the 1840's, he became acquainted with miss Jane Kirk, who lived nearby with her family. Her parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Baldwin ) Kirkpatrick were living in the northwest part of Coitsville in 1850, near Thorn Hill.
Anderson and Sarah Jane were married April 26 1849,(*2),(*3), probably in Coitsville, by A O Rockwell. Soon after, when they are listed in the 1850 census, they are shown in the census-taker's sequence that puts them on the Hazelton road, (perhap s on a part of his father's farm there). The listing order of the 1850 census is particularly informative, in that almost all the neighbors on the later 1874 town map (*4), are enumerated in the same order as in the 1850 census. If true, this woul d put their first small farmstead between the McCartney's and the Vale's farms, and also near the Mahoning River valley farms of Anderson's grand parents, Amos and Jemima Loveland, and their families. Town land records would prove this, or not.
During the next few years, their family life had a number of personal tragedies. Sarah's mother, Elizabeth (Baldwin) Kirkpatrick died in May 1851, age sixty-nine. Then Anderson and Sarah's first child, William E McFarland, died in August, 1851, ju st nine months old. Next, Anderson's father, William McFarland, passed away in December of 1853, his age seventy-three, and finally, Anderson's second child, Alice Kirk McFarland, died in August, 1854, at age two.
But their lives turned for the better, as their next six children lived. In 1860, Anderson apparently was still living on the Hazelton road (near the McCartneys) and was still next to his widowed mother Elizabeth (Loveland) McFarland with her smal l household. Anderson and Sarah at the time, had; Lovina age six, Mary age four, Betsy age two and William Kirk McFarland four months old.
By the next census in 1870, the Anderson McFarland family had prospered. They had moved to a new neighborhood in the center of Coitsville village (see map). Also moving up to the center, in a household next door to Anderson's farm, were his mothe r Elizabeth, brother Amos and sister 'Lucinia' (Lavina). Anderson's farm real estate value had increased by twenty times to over ten thousand dollars, the eighth highest 1870 valuation in the township (out of more than two hundred). About this tim e of 1870-80 the Anderson McFarland/McFarlin family began spelling their last name McFarlin.
Indicated in the 1880 census, Anderson was still farming, Sarah kept house, and five of their six living children were with them, (Mary Olivia McF having moved out). Vine J McFarland, the oldest daughter at twenty-six, was a school teacher, as wa s her sister Betty McFarland, age twenty-two. Perhaps they were both giving classes in the corner school just to the north, a mile and half away on the main road (see map).
William Kirk McFarlin, their oldest son, was now twenty and listed as still attending school, however this 'school' was the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio where William registered at the University as "...Will K McFarlin, son of A McFarli n."(*5). A younger brother, Frank McFarland, age sixteen, was helping on the farm while finishing up his primary schooling, (taught by his sisters?). Anderson's youngest child, Eddie McFarland, age fourteen, was also still in school while living a t home.
Information is given in the 1880 census as to the birth places of the parents of all people listed. This becomes good confirming evidence for tracing obscure data as to various ancestor's locations. For Anderson and Sarah McFarland, the places o f birth given in 1880 are very useful; Anderson's father (William McFarland), was born in Ireland, and his mother, (Elizabeth Loveland), born in Vermont. For Sarah, her father, (Andrew Kirkpatrick), was born in New Jersey, and her mother, (Elizabe th Baldwin), was born in Pennsylvania.
Williams had stated in his 1882 biographical sketch that Anderson had become the "...owner of a good farm of one hundred and ninety acres situated near the center of the township...Mr McFarlin (sic) has been a Republican since the party was formed . He was postmaster at Coitsville for seventeen years. The family are well known and highly respected in this county" (*1 p 175).
Anderson died in August 1890, at the age of sixty-two, probably at his home/farmstead in Coitsville center.

PFM's sources for Anderson McFarland(McFarlin); Farmer, Postmaster;

1830 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 249 with his father William (Anderson's age <5)
1840 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 190 with his father William (Anderson's age 10-15)
1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 584 (his age 22, farmer, born in Ohio)
1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13 (his age 32, farmer, born in Ohio, real value $450, pers value $600)
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 (his age 42, farmer, born in Ohio, spelled McFarland, real value $10,220, pers value $1,630)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 (his age 52, farmer, born in Ohio, spelled McFarland, father b in Ireland, mother b in Vermont)
Other References;
*1 Williams; 1882 v 2
*2 McFarlin; 2008 Many of the McFarlin births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarlin by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 1877 (1897?). Ph otocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and notes in his po ssession at that time.
*3 Marraiges of Mahoning county; 1846-1851 p 108
*4 1874 Map of Coitsville, Ohio
*5 1971 letter to P F McFarlin from Ohio State University
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Family Tree for Mr. Peter Folsom McFarlin

Anderson married Sarah Jane Mary Kirk on 26 Apr 1849 in Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA. Sarah was born on 21 Jan 1830 in Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio, USA; died in 1893 in Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio, USA; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: William E McFarlin

Notes:

William E. McFarland, born November 4, 1850 in Coitsville, Ohio (*1), was the first child born to Anderson and Sarah (Kirk) McFarland/McFarlin on their small farmstead on the Hazelton road next to his grandfather William's home farm. William E. li ved only nine months.

(Research):PFM's sources for William E McFarland;

1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 584, Anderson and Sarah McFarland were living on the Hazelton road between the McCartney and Vale farms.

Other References
*1 McFarlin; 2008 Many of the McFarlin births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarlin by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 1877 (1897?). Ph otocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and notes in his po ssession at that time.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Alice K McFarlin

Notes:

Alice K (Kirk?) McFarland was born August 25, 1852 in Coitsville, Ohio(*1). This second child of Anderson and Sarah (Kirk) McFarland lived to be only two and died in 1854.

(Research):PFM's sources for Alice K McFarland;

1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 584, Anderson and Sarah McFarland were living on the Hazelton road between the McCartney and Vale farms.
Other References
*1 McFarlin; 2008 Many of the McFarlin births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarlin by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 1877 (1897?). Ph otocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and notes in his po ssession at that time.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Lovina Jemima McFarlin

Notes:

Levina Jemima McFarland, born April 1854 in Coitsville, Ohio (*1), was the third child of Anderson and Sarah McFarland and grew up as the oldest on the small family farmstead on the Hazelton road . In the 1860's Levina moved with her family to th e 190 acre farm near Coitsville village center. She was known as 'Vine' by her family, and referred to as 'Vina' by Williams (*2 p 175).
In 1880, Vine, at age twenty-six, was still living with her parents, sister Betty and three younger brothers on the prosperous McFarland farm in Coitsville. She and Betty were both school teachers, which may account for them "attending school" i n that census year.
According to family records, she married a Samuel (Lemuel?) M McBride in 1883. However, census records for Ohio and Pennsylvania, that were checked, didn't reveal where he came from, or went to.
She reportedly died in 1886 (*1), and I have no further information about Levina (McFarland) McBride or possible children.

PFM's sources for Levina McFarlin; Schoolteacher
1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 584, her parents living on the Hazelton road
1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13, with Anderson McFarland ("Lovina J", her age 6)
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 with Anderson McFarland ("Lovinia", her age 16, at home, born in Ohio)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 with Anderson McFarland ("Vine J, her age 26, school teacher, born in Ohio, father b in Ohio, mother b in Ohio)

Other References
*1 McFarlin; 2003 Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 187 7 (1897?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and no tes in his possession at that time.
*2 Williams; 1882 v 2

Levina married Samuel Morrow McBride on 8 Nov 1883 in Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA. Samuel was born on 24 Sep 1851 in Mahoningtown, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, USA; died in 1930 in Lapeer, Lapeer, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Olive McFarlin

Notes:

Olive Mary McFarland was the second child of Anderson and Sarah McFarland to live to maturity. She was born in February, 1856 in Coitsville, Ohio and grew up on the family farm as had her sister, Lovina, just two years older than she. The sister s apparently led similar lives; both became local school teachers and both married in their mid-twenties.
Olive was not at the McFarland/McFarlin family home in 1880, and might be found in Youngstown, Ohio. By 1881 she had married Albert Ross of Youngstown, she twenty-five and he twenty-seven.
They had only one child who apparently died young, as no children are listed as living in the 1900 census. Olive and Albert stayed alone together for at least forty years, moving to Columbus in the early 1900's.
She probably died before the 1930 census

(Research):, and vital records should be checked.

PFM's sources for Olive Mary McFarlin; School-teacher
1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13 with Anderson McFarland (her age 4, born in Ohio, attending school)
1870 census, Coitsville, Ohio p 107 with Anderson McFarland (her age 14, born in Ohio, at home)
1880 census, Youngstown? Ohio
1900 census, Youngstown, Ohio ED 58 p 57, with Albert Ross (her age 44, born in Ohio, mar 20 yrs, 0 of 1 children alive, father b in Ohio, mother b in Ohio)
1910 census, Columbus, Ohio ED 184 p 192, with Albert Ross (her age 54, born in Ohio, 1st mar for 28 yrs, 0 of 1 children alive, father b in Ohio, mother b in Ohio)
1920 census, Columbus, Ohio ED 256 p 332, with Albert Ross (her age 63, born in Ohio, f in Ohio, m in Ohio)
1930 census, Olive McFarlin (McFarland) not found

Other References
*1 McFarlin; 2003 Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 187 7 (1897?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and no tes in his possession at that time.

Olive married Albert Ross on 2 Jun 1881 in Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA. Albert was born in Mar 1854 in Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA; died in 1928 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, USA; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Betsey Baldwin McFarlin

Notes:

Betty B McFarland was the fifth child of Anderson and Sarah Jane (Kirk) McFarland and was born in Coitsville, Ohio August 11th, 1858 on the family's farm. she grew up there with her older sisters Vine and Olive, and brothers; Wm Kirk, Frank, and T homas.
In 1880, Betty was teaching in nearby Liberty while boarding with the J D Everett family. In 1888 Betty married Wm L Jacobs, of Youngstown. They had two children; William MacFarlin Jacobs and Sarah Jacobs. By 1910, she, husband Will, son William a nd daughter Sarah, were living in Columbus, Ohio where Will owned a retail hardware store. By 1920, still in Columbus, Will had retired and they lived together alone.
1930 finds widow Betty living in her own apartment in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, next to the apartment of her son William MacFarlin Jacobs and his wife Bethel. She died sometime after 1936.

(Research):PFM's sources for Betsy B McFarlin; School-teacher
1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13 with her father Anderson McFarland (Betsy's age 2, born in Ohio)
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 with her father Anderson McFarland (Bettie's age 11, at home and school, born in Ohio)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 with her father Anderson McFarland (Betty's age 22, born in Ohio, school teacher, both parents b in Ohio)
1880 census; Liberty, Ohio p 6, Bettie McFarland boarding with J D Everett family (her age 21, born in Pa sic, teacher, both parents b in Ohio)
1889-1890 Youngstown, Ohio directory, The Stambaugh Thompson Co, Elm St
1890 census; not extant
1900 census; Betsy not found
1910 census; Columbus, Franklin co, Ohio ED 173 p 54, with W L Jacobs (Betty, wife, her age 50, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio)
1920 census; Columbus, Franklin co, Ohio ED 261 p 1, with Will Jacobs
1930 census; Charleroi, Washington co, Pennsylvania ED 63-34 p 40 (Betty B Jacobs, widow, age 71, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio)

Other References
*1 McFarlin; 2003 Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 187 7 (1897?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and no tes in his possession at that time.

Betty married William Lloyd Jacobs on 3 Jul 1888. William was born on 8 Oct 1856 in Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA; died on 9 Jun 1922 in Ohio?; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: William Kirk McFarland

Notes:

WILLIAM KIRK MCFARLAND/MCFARLIN 1860 - 1943 by Peter F McFarlin - 2008

THE EARLY YEARS
William Kirk McFarland was born at the Anderson McFarland family farm, on the Hazelton road in Coitsville, Ohio March 12th, 1860. He was the sixth child of Anderson and Sarah Jane Kirk(patrick) McFarland, and the first son to live to maturity. Th e William part of his name came from his grandfather William, born in Ireland in 1780, and the Kirk part was from his mother's shortened maiden name. By 1879, in his Ohio State University registration, Will had changed his last name's spelling fro m McFarland to McFarlin, as did his brother, Thomas Edward McFarlin.
He had three older sisters; Vine, by six years, Olive, by four years, and Betty, by two years. In the early years it's likely they helped their mother care for him, and also were likely his first playmates, which soon included his brother Frank , born in 1864, when William was aged four. Soon after that, William started at the local country school nearest to his home. He attended during the winter months, and then, in the long summer vacation, which usually began in spring and overlappe d into autumn, he would probably spend in assisting his father in the operation of the home farm. Young William was required by his family to stay working on the home farm until he reached twenty-one.

LEARNING MORE
When the family moved up to their larger farm in the Coitsville village center, his father also became the town's postmaster, for a period of seventeen years. This was during the 1860's and 1870's, and visits to the post office quite possibly gav e young William a taste of the larger world expanding into the west via the many railroads being built. Also, both of his sisters, Vine and Bettie were school teachers around 1878-80 while they were still living at home, and may have had some infl uence on William's desire to continue his own schooling.
From discussions (# 1, # 2, # 3) between Peter F McFarlin (PFM) and his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in 1966 and 1974, it was learned that William McFarlin was enrolled in the newly formed Ohio State University, in Columbus, while still at his fa ther's farm. The 1862 federal Land Grant Act provided for the proceeds from the sales of public lands to be used by the states to "finance colleges whose leading object was to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes , primarily in the areas of agriculture and mechanics." Classes began in the new Ohio college in September, 1873, with twenty-four students enrolled on the first day. In 1878, the first class of six men graduated, and in 1879 the University gradua ted its first woman.
Upon writing Ohio State, their response to PFM (# 4) was; "The original registration book of the University shows a Will K McFarlin to have registered in September, 1879. He gave his residence as Coitsville, Ohio, his age as 19, and his parent o r guardian as A. McFarlin. He attended the University for one term taking Elementary Physics (in which he received a grade of pass), First Year Civil Engineering (passed with merit), and Second Year Agricultural Drawing (passed)."
The June 1st, 1880 Coitsville census for Anderson McFarland indicates that his son William is attending school at age twenty. The next year, when William reached twenty-one, he immediately left home for work with the Rock Island Railroad Line.

CAREER IN RAILROADING
As uncle Kirk explained it to PFM in 1974 (ibid.# 3)... "In those years, all farm boys were apprenticed to the family. I call it apprenticeship, they served without pay until they were twenty-one, the year of maturity in those days. At which tim e they had served their time, so-to-speak, and were free to do as they wished. Some stayed on the farm, maybe inherited it, you know, and others went out. Apparently he went out immediately he was free. I don't think he cared for farming. The onl y word that we have is that he joined the Rock Island Railroad, and that was quite a firm then."
In 1882, when Will was twenty-two, the History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties writes..."William K (McFarlin) is now engaged on the new through line in the capacity of civil engineer..."(# 5 Williams p 175). He continued engineering and surveyin g for the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe railroad in the early to mid 1880's. He was helping to establish their new lines in Kansas, westward from Topeka. The 1885 Kansas state census lists Wm McFarland rooming at widow Cora VanBuskirk's, in Whit e Cloud, Kansas. This was, at the time, a fading corn and wheat milling town which had shipped a great deal of Kansas grains via the Missouri River. William's younger brother, Edward McFarlin also worked for the railroads and later married Anna, o ne of the VanBuskirk daughters.

Kirk continues; "He got some job on the Rock Island and this became almost a permanent, or long-time connection. He apparently surveyed the lines as they were laid west and that is where he met up with the man who would become his partner, who's n ame was Frank Hyde. They were men of an age. He had come from ... Wisconsin? And they became very close friends."

MCFARLAND, KANSAS
Kirk continued with another story to PFM; "...I think he was probably a division engineer by that time (1887) and he worked up and down a division. As they went along, each time they built a water tank, they named a town you see, and when they ra n out of names, they used his - which is our only claim to fame." The present small town of McFarland, Kansas, about thirty miles west of Topeka, had a population of 271 in 2000, and is still located just on the north side of the through rail line , and just south of exit 330 of Interstate 70. In October 2007, while passing through, Peter visited the town, looked over the railroad line, met with the town historian and read all the extant references to confirm(?) the family story. William Mc Farland/McFarlin's name doesn't show up in any reference and, in fact, the town was named after another; Judge Noah C McFarland of Topeka in the year 1887. Perhaps William was an engineer on the line at the time, and helped to lay out the line, bu t the town was not named for him.
In 1890 William was listed in the Kansas City directory living in Kansas City at 122 Reynolds Ave, and then Topeka, Kansas by 1891.

MARGARET WILTSIE
When asked how William met his future wife, Margaret Wiltsie, uncle Kirk explained..."I think, while he was working in Kansas, he came in contact with certain people in Topeka who had membership in a camp in Colorado. This was in the near vicinit y of Creede, which is up at the top of the divide at the head waters of the Rio Grande. My mother was invited there by a different family, to the same fishing camp. They met there under those vacation conditions in the early days of that country , 'cause that was the late 'eighties. He'd been west and was progressing back to Chicago. I have some of his courtship letters that were written from points in Kansas. Well, so one thing led to another, the letters were very formal; courtship lett ers of those days...It came to the point that they were married...in Elgin, where her family were."
In January of 1891, for their marraige license, William Kirk McFarlin, age thirty-one, gave his place of residence as Topeka, Kansas, and occupation as; superintendent of railroad maintenance. Margaret Welles Wiltsie gave her age as twenty-six an d residence as Elgin, Illlinois. They were married in Elgin, Illinois June ninth, 1891, by A H Ball, pastor of the 1st Congregational Church. The witnesses to the marraige were Mr. John Wiltsie and Carrie Dickenson. The groom's parents were Anders on McFarlin and Sarah J Kirk. William's place of birth was Coitsville, Ohio. The bride's parents were John C Wiltsie and Mary Welles, and Margaret was born in Elgin, Illinois.
The first of their two children, Charles Kirk McFarlin, our quoted story-teller here, was born in Topeka in June of 1892. However, no official record could be found in any of the Kansas state files which might help show where they lived and Willia m's occupational status then. No William McFarland/McFarlin owned property in the Topeka area at that time either.

COMING EAST
William settled for a few years in Davenport, Iowa by 1894 where he is found listed as the Superintendent of Maintenence and Construction for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co. The Iowa state census of 1895 also lists William, Margar et and Charles, but spelled McFarland. In 1896 Davenport, William McFarlin lives at 1751 Grand Ave and in 1898 at 409 E 14th, Davenport.
Kirk relates more of his father's story, picking up a few years later-on, in the late 1890's..."Continuing his history, he was stationed in Davenport, Iowa, when some opening came up, here in the east, to which he was introduced by his friends i n the Rock Island. And he came east to become chief engineer of this road here - the Lackawanna system from here to Buffalo. The headquarters are here (New Jersey), so this is where he came. And that was about 1899 or 1900."
William and his family are found in the June 1st, 1900 East Orange, New Jersey US census, renting at 16 Hawthorne Avenue. He is listed as a Chief Engineer for the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Living in the household are his wife Marga ret, age thirty-five, son Charles, age eight, and William's mother-in-law J Mary Wilsey, who was sixty-seven. Donald Welles McFarlin, his second son, is born there in October of 1900.

RR CAREER AND INVENTIONS
"Now, he..." (William) "... stayed with them in that position for about ten or twelve years. In the meantime, his later-to-be partner (Hyde) had become a very successful railroad builder and he had even built one of the Grand Central Stations. An d so eventually he left the Lackawanna and they went together as contractors to railroads. That was about 1910, and they worked here in that way until 1925. (McFarlin family anecdote has it that Kirk laid out much of the newer railroad systems i n New Jersey.) "But the war caused them difficulties because the war was a complete changeover in the method of doing business and he and his partner had been brought up to do business by hand and by word, not by contract. Then when the age of con tracts came in, and the unions, this they couldn't combat. So at that time they both began to retire."
While active in the railroad contracting business, William's engineering mind came up with the practical idea of improving the outdoor railroad platform roofs, which shed water and snow down onto the passengers while they were getting on and off t he trains. His new design had a row of single supporting columns in the center of the platform between the two railroad tracks at the station. These columns held up the protective, reversed roof by a cantilevered truss, all of which appears as a ' Y' shape in cross-section, and which cupped the 'elements' away from the patrons and down central drain pipes. This simple innovation was revolutionary and most all railroad termini installed them until they became commonplace. William never paten ted the design himself and so never gained recognition or royalties.
William is listed in the 1910 East Orange, New Jersey census, owning his own home at 180 Glenwood Avenue, age fifty, a railroad manager and married nineteen years. He is living with his wife Margaret and sons Charles K, age eighteen and Donald, ag e nine. They also have one Swedish servant cooking for them. Whoever the informant was on April 25th that year (wife Margaret?), gave some erroneous data to the census taker, by saying that William "MacFarland" was born in Scotland, with both pare nts born in Scotland, and being a naturalized citizen in 1885. It is certain that William was born in Coitsville, Ohio, proven with data taken from many other records and reports.
The partner of William's was Frank Davis Hyde, born in Wisconsin, and occupied as a railroad contractor. He was listed in the 1910 South Orange, New Jersey census, living at 576 Center Street with his wife Ada and their only child, a newborn daugh ter Frances. They had three Finnish servants; cook, maid and waitress.
By the 1920 census, William, Margaret and their two sons are now found living at 170 Glenwood Ave in East Orange, which is about a mile and a half walk from a RR station into NYC. William is occupied as a railroad contractor and as an employer. Th e family is now prosperous enough to have five others in their service at their home: George Ader, age forty-nine, chauffeur; Anna Ader, cook, age forty-five; Carrie Ader, nurse, age nineteen (the three Aders were black and born in New Jersey); El izabeth M Merritt, widow age forty-two, maid; and Margaret A O'Connor, age sixty-one, maid. All these domestic helpers are living in the garage at the rear of the main house. (In 2008, Google Earth shows the home from both the air and the street l evel.) In 1920, Frank Hyde, William's partner of about fifteen years, was still living with his wife Ada and daughter Frances a few miles away at 471 Center Street in South Orange. That census lists him also as a railroad contractor, and being a n employer. They, too, are prospering well enough to have four servants who are living with them.

DIFFICULTIES
We pick up uncle Kirk's story again about this time..."Now my father - it was in 1921 or 1922 that my father and mother separated. My father set up single living in an apartment down in East Orange. My brother went with him. He (William) lived a t a small family hotel down in East Orange and my mother lived variously in this area here. Always by herself, never with us."
William took a trip to Hawaii in 1923, returning to San Francisco on February 21st after a two day passage from Honolulu. This was perhaps to relax and settle his mind after the separation. Again, in 1926, William Kirk McFarlin returns to the US f rom another trip, this time in the West Indies, where he cruised for a month on the S.S. California during the month of January. He gives his birth place as Youngstown, Ohio and address in the United States as; 90 West St NY, NY, likely his plac e of business. In March of 1928 William arrives back from Cherbourg, France from another trip, with his home address given as 120 Hamson (sic=Harrison) St, East Orange, NJ
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RIFE - AND A BUSINESS THEFT
Question by PFM to his uncle Kirk; "When did the Rife Company come in?"(# 6)
"Well, this is how that happened. About the time he and Frank Hyde had completed some substantial work for the Lackawanna, they had a period of nothing to do. Some clever promoters from down in Roanoke who had opened an office up here, had manage d to work off a substantial part of the stock of this company on my father and Frank Hyde. They were then not active, so it looked like a good business. So they decided they'd get into this. Acquired enough of the stock to make it possible. He wa s an inactive stockholder from 1910 to 1918, then they were more engaged and he went into it to fill time. From that time on he continued, even though the company's condition went to pot - terribly.
"It (Rife) had been founded in '85. and he became active from 1920 until 1927. At that time, the office manager, in whom he had entrusted everything...and his wife, who was his book keeper, committed the inevitible; they walked out one night wit h all the records of the company. And they had all the customer lists, and they set up business right down the street. There were a great many details involved that I had to become familiar with in the process...He had an infinite faith in people . This was one of the causes of his difficulties, because when I had to step into this picture, I discovered that there was a great deal of dishonesty at his expense during the progress of this business which he had tried to operate during the yea rs. I have to admit I saw this through settling several of his scores...in process of continuing what had to be done.
"But, the men of that generation were simply sitting ducks for the slap-happy crowd that came up with the two wars, you know. The times changed...It was a different generation. They dealt by the word, not the written agreement or with lawyers. H e would not deal with a lawyer. Repeatedly, as he went through history, there were occasions where he was taken advantage of because he did not have faith in lawyers. He would rather forget it.
"This created an almost impossible condition which my father fought for the rest of his life. When he died - and in my opinion - considerably from the conditions resulting from the Depression. You see, this fellow took off and immediately followe d the Depression which was followed by the recovery of the late 'thirties, and then the War. It was enough to knock a stronger man out. He was eighty-two when he died. I think it had considerable to do with his death. The strain and this disappoin tment, you know?"
The census of 1930 finds William K McFarlin, age seventy, living alone at 120 Harrison Street, East Orange, renting for $120 a month. He reports that he is married, was born in Ohio and was currently occupied as a construction engineer.
During 1935 to 1937 he was occasionally invited over to his son Donald's home to visit with Donald, wife Peggy and their little daughter Alison and baby son Peter. He took his 1936 Thanksgiving dinner there, (with their little dogs and cat at hi s feet getting turkey scraps). "We played rummy too, and had a good time." (Peggy McFarlin letter)
Kirk continues, regarding Mrs McFarlin's financial support from William and the Rife company..."Now, this I did want to say to you, which I think is a matter of great interest. As my mother's condition became more and more difficult, it becam e - I had tried to stay out of this affair - I had spent years trying to keep it together and when it failed, I let it go. I mean I stayed away from it. I supported my mother, which I thought was the right thing to do. But, as the years went on, i t became necessary, as a matter of fact, I was the fiscal agent, everything came through me. My father did his best to offer support..." (to wife Margaret) "...until the time when he passed away. But we came to have considerable respect for each o ther. We used to visit him down at this little hotel. I'd often stop there on a saturday afternoon. He had a room. He was very happy because he could have his food, he could have everything and there was this room.
"He had three things in that room outside of the furniture, most of which they had furnished. Let me think, he had a bible, he had a dictionary, and he had an atlas. That was the furnishings of his room. He, of course, was always reading, he woul d get a book, but he would pass it on, or return it where it came from."

WILLIAM'S CHARACTER
"But, I have thought that any man who has mastered himself to the point of disposing of all of his - everything worldly - was something really extraordinary.
"He was a tremendous reader, he had definite characteristics. He was a great naturalist, tremendously informed. He had been a very expert golfer in his time...He was a very gregarious person. He had many, many friends and he was highly esteemed b y an awful lot of people... but when it came to politics, I guess he and I were somewhat the same, we never took it seriously... He was always a decent man, but to my knowledge never really had a (church) affiliation...
"He was an extremely social person...but he went more to the company of men. Of course, you see this thing (living together with his wife and socializing together) was cut off when he was sixty - about the time of this break and thats a hard tim e to judge.
"His hair was a very dark brown, not black, (later) his hair was white... He always had good color and he had extremely strong, blue eyes...In later years he suffered from cataracts. He had one eye repaired...I did hear he had had a heart attack , but I was never told about it. Outside of this eye trouble, that was all I knew of. He was a very strong man...and was six feet, but he was heavier than I am, even when he died, he was heavier. (than Kirk's 160 lbs)
"Eventually he passed away very quietly and very quickly, hurrying up a pair of stairs to take a train to his office, at the age of eighty-two. Bang, just like that."

PASSING
William Kirk McFarlin died unexpectedly on a Monday morning at the Brick Church railway station platform in East Orange. He was on his way to work, as usual. His son, Charles Kirk McFarlin, of Delwick Lane, Short Hills, New Jersey, gave informatio n for William's death certificate in 1943, saying William was a mechanical engineer, living at Hotel Alvord, East Orange, New Jersey, born March 12, 1860 in Coitsville, Ohio, son of Anderson McFarlin and Sarah (Patty-Betty?) Jane Kirk, both born i n Coitsville. The medical examiner gave reason for death as, "Sudden death on Brick Church Station platform; Cardiac failure, arteriosclerotic heart disease, Dec 6, 1943, 8:20 am." William was cremated (and buried?) at Rosehill Cemetery, Linden, N ew Jersey, December 9th, 1943.

FSID LKD7-N4R

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Family Tree for Mr. Peter Folsom McFarlin
Whenever asked by Peter in later years, his mother, Peggy McFarlin and his aunt Mary (Folsom) Applegate always spoke highly of his grandfather William and were sorry not to have continued contact over his remaining years, from 1938 to 1943.

NOTES AND REFERENCES
(# 1) McFarlin; 1966 - In October, while living in Riverdale, NJ and working at Alpine Geophysical Associates in Norwood, NJ, PFM first ever looked up (and 'phoned) his uncle Kirk and aunt Polly McFarlin. This was followed in November by a visit f rom PFM to the McFarlin's home on Delwick Lane in Short Hills, NJ. At that time, uncle Kirk gave PFM a small amount of data and information.
(# 2) McFarlin; 1974 - Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9 , 1877 (1897?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes, photos and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had th e bible and notes in his possession at that time.
(# 3) McFarlin; 9-10 October, 1974 - Personal conversations between PFM and Kirk and Polly McFarlin at their home in Short Hills NJ. These were willingly taped and later transcribed to text. Occasional letters from Uncle Kirk to PFM followed betwe en 1967 and March of 1977, one month before Kirk died.
(# 4) Ohio State University; March, 1971 letter to Peter McFarlin
(# 5) History of Mahoning and Trumbull Counties; Williams; 1882 v 2
(# 6) Rife Hydraulic Engine Manufacturing Co, Millburn, NJ; 1965, Water pumps driven only by the water's gravity power.

OTHER SOURCES
-1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13 with his father Anderson McFarland (William K's age 4 months, born in Ohio)
-1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 with his father Anderson McFarland (William's age 9, born in Ohio, attending school)
-1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio ED 95 p 89 with his father Anderson McFarland (W K's age 20, son, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio, attending school)
-1885 census; Kansas, White Cloud, Doniphan co p 2; Wm Mcfarland sic a 25, single, b Ohio, came from Ohio to Kansas, residing at 30 yr-old widow Cora VanBuskirk's rooming house, with her daughters; Anna 14 and Edith 10, and; Thomas Cecil a teache r of Ohio a 30, James McConnor a clerk of Missouri a 18, George Westfall a boat captain of Kansas a 25, and Lucy Moore a cook of Kansas a 18.
-1890 city directory; Kansas City 1890/1891; "William McFarlin r 122 Reynolds avenue"
-1891 marraige register #2 Illinois State board of Health p 296; marraige license # 7511; Wm Kirk McFarlin and Margaret W Wiltsie.
-1900 census; East Orange, Essex co, New Jersey ED 180 p 201(his age 39, born in Ohio March 1861, m 9 yrs, Chief Eng Delaware, Lackawanna and Western RR, renting house at 16 Hawthorne Ave)
-1893 city directory; Davenport, Iowa;
-1910 census; East Orange City, Essex co, New Jersey ED 163 p 266 (his age 50, m 19 yrs, born in Scotland, b parents b Scotland, nat 1885, manager of railroad, working, owns home free of mtg at 180 Glenwood Ave)
-1920 census; East Orange, Essex co, New Jersey ED 31 p 70 (his age 50, born in Scotland-overwritten by Ohio, b parents b in Ohio, working as a Railroad Contractor employer, owns home free of mtg at 170 Eastwood St corn of Glenwood Ave)
-1930 census; East Orange City, Essex co, New Jersey ED 376 p 167 (his age 70, still married, married at age 30, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio, working as a Construction Engineer for highway, rents with 7 other households at 120 Harrison St , for $112/month)
-1943 New Jersey State Department of Health; death certificate

William married Margaret Welles Wiltsie on 9 Jun 1891 in Elgin, Kane, Illinois, USA. Margaret was born on 24 Sep 1864 in Elgin, Kane, Illinois, USA; died on 26 Mar 1949 in Springfield, Union, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Apr 1949 in St Stephens Cemetery, Millburn, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The only lead I found that might prove useful is of a Frank M McFarlin's application for land under the Timber Culture Act in The Denver Land Office records (1862-1908).
This would have to be after 1873 when the act was passed.
(Township 7/north, and range 59/west. # 7371 and 10295.)

(Research):PFM's sources for Frank Malt McFarlin;
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 with his father Anderson McFarland (Frank's age 6, born in Ohio)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 with his father Anderson McFarland (Frank's age 16, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio, attending school and farming)
1900 census; Frank not located -- may be in Colorado??

Other References
*1 McFarlin; 2003 Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 187 7 (1897?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and no tes in his possession at that time.

Notes:

Family records show that Thomas Edward McFarlin married Anna (Ann) VanBuskirk July 12, 1888 (*1). The two Ohio census listings from 1870 and 1880 record his first name as Edward and Eddie, but not Thomas. Last name was spelled McFarlin throughou t all but one censuses.
In the 1895 Kansas census T M McFarlin is married to "Annie" (age 29 b Kansas), and is a grain dealer living in Sabetha in northeast Kansas. They have three children; Leota a 5, Marnie a 3, and Phoebe a 2 months. Thomas had recently arrived from N ebraska, although his three young daughters were all born in Kansas. This perhaps indicates that he had been working in Nebraska while the family stayed at home in Sebatha, Kansas.
In 1900 he was again on the move, living in Sterling, Colorado without his family and rooming with; a flour-milling contractor, Isaac Shepardson (a 56), Isaac's son, and a book-keeper, Harry P Long (a 25). Thomas was now a RR grading foreman, a ve ry similar profession to his older brother William K McFarlin (who had recently moved east in 1899 to East Orange, NJ). Thomas' wife and family remained in Savannah, Missouri with her father Harvey VanBuskirk. (Information for Thomas E McFarlin wa s also given to the census taker in Missouri, but with an incorrect birthdate for Thomas - he being away at the time?).
Perhaps Thomas McFarlin and brother William had been working together for the Rock Island or A T and Sante Fe railroad companies, as the railroads pushed new lines westward.
By 1910, Thomas McFarlin, Anna and now their four children were living in Kansas City, Missouri, renting at 720 Euclid Avenue where he is listed as a (RR?) office labor agent. They'd had five children with four now living. The youngest, Albert, wa s born in Missouri (Kansas City?). In 1915 he and Anna returned to Kansas, living in Belleville, while daughter Elva was housekeeping for an elderly couple in LaBette, Kansas. Thomas, Anna and Albert McFarlin (age 11) were still living in Bellevil le in 1920 where Thomas was a proprietor of a restaurant, at age fifty-four.
Thomas Edward McFarlin, born in Coitsville, Ohio (son of Anderson McFarland/McFarlin), and his wife Anna, remain living in Belleville, Kansas in 1930, now at 1510 Q Street, where he owns his own home and is retired, age 64. No death records locate d for Thomas and Anna McFarlin.

(Research):PFM's sources for Thomas Edward McFarlin;
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 with his father Anderson McFarland (Edward's age 4, born in Ohio)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 with his father Anderson McFarland (Eddie's age 14, attending school, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio)
1895 (Kansas) census; Sabetha, Nemaha co. Kansas; T M McFarlin a 29 grain dealer, b Ohio, had recently came from Nebraska, and; Annie a 27 b Kansas, Leota a 5, Mamie a 3, Phoebe a 2m (all three children were born in Kansas).
1900 census; Savannah, Andrew co, Missouri; Thos. E McFarland (son-in-law to Harvey Van Buskirk, who is head of this household), Anna McFarlin and their daughters there too.
1900 census; Sterling, Logan co, Colorado; Thomas E McFarlin b Oct 1865 Ohio, RR grading foreman, rooming with the Isaac Shepardson family.
1910 census; Kansas City, Jackson co, Missouri; Thomas E McFarlin a 43, office labor agent, with; wife Anna A a 39 b Kansas, dau Leota a 20 b Ohio, dau Mamie a 18 b Kansas, dau Elva a 15 b Kansas, son Albert a 1 4/12 b Missouri
1915 (Kansas) census; Belleville, Republic co, Kansas; T E McFarlin a 49, Anna a 43, Mame a 23, Robert (sic=Albert) a 6.
1920 census; Belleville, Republic co, Kansas; Thomas E McFarlin a 54 restaurant proprietor, wife Anna A a 47
1930 census; Belleville, Republic co, Kansas; Thomas McFarlin a 64 no occupation, a 29 when married, wife Anna A a 58 a 16 when married.

Other References
*1 McFarlin; 2003 Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 187 7 (1897?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and no tes in his possession at that time.

Thomas married Anna A. Van Buskirk on 12 Jul 1888 in Lancaster Co, Nebraska, USA. Anna was born in Jan 1872 in Kansas, USA; died in 1937 in Kansas?; was buried in Mount Allen Cemetery, Hays, Ellis, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The last child of Anderson and Sarah (Kirk) McFarland recorded in the notes given to PFM (*1), was named Charles Anderson McFarland. He was born in Coitsville, Ohio, September 19, 1868, probably on the Anderson McFarland farm near Coitsville cente r. However he lived only eleven months, dying October 1869.

(Research):Other References
*1 McFarlin; 2003 Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 187 7 (1897?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and no tes in his possession at that time.

Notes:

- 1910 census; Columbus, Ohio ED 173 p 54; Wm M Jacobs a 20 w his parents and sister Sarah, a 19, both in school.
- 1917, June 5th WWI registration; signs his name; William MacFarlin Jacobs, a 28 b March 31 1889 in Youngstown, Ohio. Two years at Ohio State, asst. supt. of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. as an optical glass worker.
- 1920 census;
- 1930 census; Charleroi, Washington co, Pennsylvania, ED 63-34 p 40 (his age 41, supt of Glass house, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio)

William married Bethel Bowman in 1921. Bethel was born on 20 Aug 1894 in Pennsylvania, USA; died in Feb 1974 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Harrison Jackson Stambaugh on 10 May 1929. Harrison was born on 12 Apr 1888 in Cuyahoga Falls, Summit, Ohio, USA; died between 1941 and 1953. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

FTDNA #448641

CHARLES KIRK MCFARLIN 1892 - 1977 by; Peter F McFarlin - 2008

A MID-WEST START
According to secondary and family sources (# 1), the first child of William and Margaret (Wiltsie) McFarlin was Charles Kirk McFarlin, born June 17 1892 in Topeka, Kansas. However, no official Kansas birth record has been found, even after Pete r F McFarlin (PFM) visited the Center For Historical Research (while passing through Topeka, Kansas in October of 2007) where he searched the Kansas vital records. This lack of recording may be due to Kirk's father William's transient profession a s supervisor of railroad maintenence for the Atchison Topeka and Sante Fe branch of the Rock Island Line. Also, his parents did not own any real estate in Topeka and environs during the years 1890 to 1894, either. So, the birth record was probabl y just not recorded. Possibly Margaret had Charles Kirk with assistence from the AT&SF RR company itself: "Harmony between managers and employees has been in every way encouraged. For years a reading-room and library system was maintained along th e line, and a splendid hospital service is now in effect." (# 2)

MCFARLINS MOVE EAST
William and Margaret McFarlin were living in Davenport, Iowa in the mid to late 1890's when he was offered a good RR engineering position back in New Jersey (connected with Frank Hyde and others), with the Lackawanna system (ibid #1). William an d Margaret brought young Kirk east with them in the late 1890's and moved into a home at 16 Hawthorne Ave in East Orange, New Jersey. The June 1900 US census for that address lists; "Charles K McFarlin, age 8 b Kansas, June 1891-(-2?), at school" . He was living there with; William K McFarlin ("chief engineer; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western RR") b OH Mar 1861, Margaret W McFarlin b IL Sept 1864, and Margaret's mother, J Mary W Wiltsie, b NY July 1832. (The McFarlin's soon had a second so n in Dec of 1900; Donald, born there in East Orange, NJ - PFM's father).

EDUCATION
His uncle Kirk relates to PFM in 1974 that Kirk's mother "...did one great thing for my brother and I; she was anxious for us to have the best education. The family always provided books you know, as a background...and my father took care of the h igher education part of it."
"Kirk McFarlin completed his preliminary education at East Orange (N.J.) High School and then went to Williams College, where he graduated B.A. in 1912, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was graduated B.S. in civil engineerin g in 1914....McFarlin belonged to Psi Upsilon and was a charter member of the Delta Delta chapter at Williams College". (# 3)

TRIP ABROAD
In the summer of 1913, at the age of twenty-one, Kirk escorted his mother and younger brother Donald on a four month European trip. Kirk's passport application (dated May 29, 1913) describes him as; 6 ft 0 in, brown eyes, dark hair, born june 17 1 892 in Topeka, Kansas and that he was living at suite 22, 19 Haviland Street, Boston (likely his address while attending MIT). A photo given to PFM by his uncle Kirk in 1974 shows a Swiss Alps hiking scene of young Donald McFarlin (age 13) and the ir mother Margaret on an open field trail with the Jungfrau mountain in the background. The photo was taken by Kirk. The three returned to NYC Sept 23 1913 from Naples, Italy via the SS Princess Irene. All gave their address then as; 170 Glenwoo d Ave, East Orange, NJ.

MEETING THE FOLSOM FAMILY
About 1913 and 1914 the William McFarlin family of East Orange had met and became acquainted with the Edmund Franklin Folsom family of Brookline, MA. William's son Donald (b 1900) and Edmund's son Eddie (b 1899) both had attended a summer camp nea r Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. The boys became friends and about 1913-14 young Donald visited the Folsom home in Brookline (where Donald met his future wife - Margaret Folsom - Eddie's little sister - age seven). Through the two familys' a cquaintance, Donald's brother Kirk also met Margaret's older sister, Mary Folsom. Then, in 1917-18 Mary and Kirk had likely met in Brookline/Boston while Kirk was studying engineering at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

WORLD WAR I
WW I in Europe was declared in 1914 (while Kirk was at MIT) and the United States became involved in 1917. Just before he registered for the draft in 1917, Kirk returned from a trip to Jamaica to NYC March 1st on the SS Carville.
"During the war he served as a lieutenant in the US Navy Air Force as a meteorologist in Europe" (ibid.# 3). In October of 1918, Kirk visited an Irish Manor house outside the city of Cork, known as Farron, and related to his nephew Peter, in 1974 , a story of 'Bringing in the Spurs', which Kirk had learned there. "This is an early Scot's tradition of serving only spurs at the dinner feast, which was the signal that the larder was empty and that the clan must take off for the lower midland s country whence came the food of the mountain people."

MARY FOLSOM
Kirk and Mary Folsom corresponded while Kirk was on US Naval duty in France in 1918. He sent this postcard from Nice on Christmas day:
(postcard here)
Kirk went back to Paris the next week, sending the following postcard December 31, 1918 to Maryabout his travels. As seen in the last line, he almost lost his life from a German 70 mile artillary shell which landed just 200 feet away!
(postcard here)

BUSINESS CAREER
After returning from his duty in Europe, Kirk began his career in 1919-20 as an engineer with the Barrett Co., New York City, a manufacturing company with research facilities. He soon become vice-president of Hensey & Co., New York City (exporter s and importers). The Jan 1920 US census finds Kirk enumerated at his parents home at Eastwood Street (off of Glenwood Ave), East Orange, NJ. Also living there are his father William (a railroad contractor) and his mother Margaret and younger brot her, Donald. In their garage at the rear of the property are living five various servants; chauffeur, cook, nurse and two maids. Charles Kirk is listed as an exporter with employees.
Later that year, Kirk's Sept 1st, 1920 application for US passport, shows that he is intending to leave the US from New York on the Gen G W Goethals Sept 9th. Walter R Hensey of Hensey & Co Inc (export and importers of food, wheat and explosives ) writes; "This is to certify that Charles K McFarlin, our vice president, is proceeding to the West Indies in the interests of our business, visiting Haiti, Santo Domingo and Cuba. In view of future travel in Europe during the life of this passpo rt, in the interests of our business, he has also specified on his passport application Great Britian, France, Belguim, Switzerland, Holland, Spain and Italy." (PFM notes, however that no 1920-1927 passenger arrivals from any of these places wer e found in the records for Charles Kirk McFarlin, and it may be surmised that he did not travel as planned.)

PARENT'S SEPARATION
Uncle Kirk relates to PFM "...it was in 1921 or '22 that my father and mother separated. My father set up single living in an apartment...My brother went with him. He lived at a small family hotel in East Orange and my mother lived variously in th is area here (Maplewood), always by herself, never with us .She was a very strong-minded person and she enjoyed living by herself. I think preferred that...She held extremely good social positions in the Oranges - in East Orange.
"She was extremely well-thought of. I think she was president of the Women's club, or whatever, up to the time when the break came and then she moved to Maplewood, and I accompanied her and lived with her until Adelaide and I were married. And i t was, of course, through having moved into that area that I came to meet Adelaide and resulted in our being married...I became interested (in Christian Science) as early as 1918-20's and in turn I was able to assist Adelaide to become intereste d and this has made quite a foundation for both of us ever since...We don't carry it to the limits that many people do, but it is our dominent thought and it has, in our opinion, been of tremendous value to us over the years. And, for that I am en tirely indebted to her (Margaret), because you don't come by this often on your own, out of a clear blue sky. For some people, it does, but for me it came through her and for Adelaide, it came through me." (ibid.# 1)

MARY AND KIRK 1921-1925
Mary Folsom and Kirk McFarlin continued seeing each other during 1919 and the early 1920's. Dated photos show them together, sometimes with her mother Margaret , either at Mary's home in Brookline (above), or at the McFarlin's summer place, canoei ng on Lake Placid in New York (photo at right). Kirk often wore his Naval uniform at these times.
Mary's description of their times together, just after her return from her own trip abroad in October of 1924, shows them meeting, either in NYC, when he was working at the National City Bank, or at his mother's home in Montclair, NJ, where they " practiced with their clubs" until it was too dark to hit the golfballs. They often dined together at his home or out with friends. Kirk taught Mary to drive his car and they went "riding" in it with various friends, once going to Boonton to pick u p his brother Donald from his work there. They sometimes took his mother Margaret to the weekly lectures that she often attended.
Mary (Folsom) Applegate later (1970's) told her nephew Peter (PFM) that she and Kirk were quite serious about each other during this time.
However, in a personal letter from Margaret McFarlin to Mary Folsom dated June 26th 1925 from Maplewood, NJ, Margaret writes; "My dear Mary, Your letter announcing (to the McFarlins) your great and final choice was received with much joyful intere st. Ever since the morning where we took our first walk together and found that we had interests and tastes in common I have had a very warm and especial place in my heart for Mary Folsom....Kirk is now at the Placid Club for two weeks rest & I fo rwarded to him your letter which arrived after he left".

In Kirk's June 21st 1925 response to Mary's announcement (of becoming engaged to Mr Octavius Applegate) he wishes her great joy, too. Then Kirk ends with; "This note comes with it, Mary; my best wishes for every good thing which life can bring. W e shall look forward to meeting Mr Applegate at some future time, and congratulate him now on his very good fortune. Please remember me most kindly to your mother and father, and to the little sister. Cordially, Kirk".

NEW FAMILY WITH ADELAIDE HOLLENBECK
Kirk had met Adelaide Hollenbeck of Maplewood, at a friend's house in NJ while playing bridge. They were married in Maplewood, May of 1926 and took a wedding trip to Lake Placid. Within a year they built their home (designed by Kirk himself) at 2 4 Delwick Ave, Short Hills, NJ. They apparently had a stillborn daughter about early 1928. He then took Adelaide on a trip to Bermuda, returning to New York from Hamilton, June 8th 1928.
"After a period as a trust officer with the National City Bank of New York, he joined the Wood Newspaper Machinery Corp., Plainfield, N.J., as an accountant in 1927" (ibid.# 3). (He later became assistant treasurer in 1936 and treasurer in 1941) . In the May 1930 US Census, Kirk McFarlin; "printing company accountant" is listed as head of family owning his own home on Delwick Lane, valued at $35,000. Also in the household are his wife Adelaide and their German maid, Hilda Reinhauer.
Shortly after the 1930 enumeration was taken in May, their second child, Kirk Charles McFarlin was born in the East Orange Memorial Hospital, 13 July 1930. Then, in Oct of 1933, their last child, Everett Byrne McFarlin was born.
In 1974, while looking at family pictures with PFM, aunt Polly (Adelaide) added "...and that is our little dog that adopted us - Bubbles went eveywhere with us - other pictures; growing up - Everett here, and this is where we went down to Marylan d to Rehobeth Beach - where we went before we had our farm. Now here the two boys are celebrating together...Kirk wanted brother Everett's curls cut 'cause others didn't know if he had a brother or sister. And here is young Kirk - he had just take n the shears and had gone right up through his hair like this."
During the 'thirtys, on weekends and holidays, Kirk and Adelaide often had family come visit to their nice home. His mother, Mrs Margaret McFarlin, would come over from Maplewood as well as his brother Donald and Peggy (Folsom) who had married i n 1932, and also lived nearby in Maplewood. Various photos of the families and children (PHOTOS) (Kirk b 1930, Everett b 1933, Alison b 1934, and Peter b 1937) were taken by Kirk during 1932-37 there at Delwick Lane in Short Hills, NJ.

KIRK'S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER
Uncle Kirk told Peter in 1974; "Now this I did want to say to you, which I think is a matter of great interest. As my mother's condition became more and more difficult, it became - I tried to stay out of this affair - I had spent years trying to k eep it together and when it failed (1920-21) I let it go. I mean I stayed away from it. I supported my mother which I thought was the right thing to do. But as the years went on, it became necessary - as a matter of fact, I was the fiscal agen t - everything came through me. My father did his best to offer support until the time when he passed away."
Kirk often visited with his father during the 'twentys and 'thirtys at William's hotel in East Orange. "as the years went on...we came to have considerable respect for each other. We used to visit him down at this little hotel. I'd often stop ther e on a Saturday afternoon. Eventually he passed away very quietly and very quickly, hurrying up a set of stairs to take a train to his office at the age of eighty-two (1943). Bang, just like that."
Prior to his father's death, Kirk had managed various parts of his father's affairs regarding finances for his mother. This included the Rife impulse ram water pump company (# 4). "But, after he died, I discovered that he had left this thing in m y hands! And it was all there was for my mother, really. I was then employed, as I had been lucky enough to retain employment through the depression, as a matter of fact. So, I got into the thing - that was '43, and for six years it was my mother' s (source) - it did the trick."

MCFARLIN'S AND FOLSOMS SEPARATE
During the mid-thirties, difficulties arose between Kirk's brother Donald (along with his mother) and Donald's wife Peggy (see Donald's and also Peggy's notes elsewhere). This resulted in Peggy's 1938 return to her family in Wellesley, MA taking A lison and Peter, and in their divorce in 1939. A very sad and difficult time for everyone in the two families. For about thirty years, contact ceased between the New Jersey McFarlins and the Folsom/McFarlins of Wellesley (until 1966).

DELWICK LANE LIFE CONTINUES
Kirk's father had passed on in 1943, and his brother Donald had removed to Washington DC, working for the War Department. Donald remarried about 1942. Their mother, Margaret passed on in 1949, still alone, but well cared for by a personal nurse.
The children, Kirk and Everett continued through local schools and then son Kirk (called 'Peter' by Kirk and Polly - after an early pet rabbit) went on in 1945 to Tabor Academy in Marion, MA graduating in 1949, when he joined the US Marines. Thei r son Everett remained at home.
Kirk Sr designed new parts for some of the Rife pump systems and filed successful patent applications in 1946 and 1949 for these improvements (# 5). He kept his treasurer's position at the Wood Newspaper Machinery Corp until 1954, when he resigne d after twenty-seven years with them and became president of Rife Hydraulic Manufacturing Co. then in New York City, which he moved to Millburn, New Jersey in 1961. He remained active with this company until the month he died, in April of 1977.

SOME TRAVELS AND VISITS
Kirk's earlier trips had included; Europe in 1913 at 21, Jamaica in 1917 at 24, Europe in 1917-18 (WW I) at 26-27, possibly West Indies in 1920 at age 28, and Bermuda in 1928, when he was 38 and Adelaide was 28.. Kirk went with his son Kirk to Gua temala in the late 1950's on a Rife business trip. During the 1970's Kirk and Adelaide took their grand-daughter Claire (McFarlin) Viviani twice to Europe and once to the Far East, while she was in her teens.
Kirk and Adelaide had many visits to and from their families from the 1920's through the 1960's. PFM first visited them in 1966, and Kirk's son Mac (Kirk jr) stayed in Short Hills with them for a few months in 1967 and again in 1970-71. In the 198 0's another grand-daughter, Gina, came for summer visits and even lived there for a year, finishing her high schooling at Millburn High in 1985.
Uncle Kirk writes at Christmastime in 1973 to Peter; "Outside of a possible ten days in Florida in February we have no plans to be away...I am still working full time, and except for a fortnight a year ago in Manila and Taipei, have not been away . We hope that you will come and see us in the spring. I still hope to find some of the family history for you."
PFM did visit again, for two days, in 1974, staying at their Delwick Lane home.

MCFARLIN FAMILY CORRESPONDENCES
Peter and his Wellesley relatives (Peggy McFarlin, the Folsoms and the Applegates) had never had any contact with his father Donald (or any of his McFarlin relatives) since his parent's divorce in 1939. He had always been curious about Donald's wh ere-abouts and situation. Having begun researching his family's genealogy and history some years before, Peter knew that Donald's brother, Kirk McFarlin used to "live somewhere in NJ".
The opportunity to find out more arose when he took a research oceanographic position with Alpine Geophysical Associates of Norwood, NJ. While living temporarily in Riverdale, NJ, Peter looked up and made his first ever (and nervous) phone call t o his McFarlin relatives. Kirk was surprised, but cordial and pleased, to hear from Peter. Thus began a correspondence between uncle Kirk, aunt Polly and Peter that lasted over eleven years between them.
In that first contact of October 1966, Peter asked his uncle Kirk to please contact Donald (in Florida), which Kirk did, but with mixed results. On Jan 27, 1967, Kirk wrote; "My dear Peter; I wrote your father at once about your visit here, an d of your request that I do so. I had heard from him shortly before that time, but he was apparently not able to write after receiving my letter. His condition became critical and in early January he was moved back to the hospital. I am sorry to h ave to tell you that he passed away on January 12 after an illness extending over a little more than a year. ...".
Peter much appreciates all the consideration and help with information which uncle Kirk gave him over the years (see bio notes about PFM, elsewhere).

UNCLE KIRK'S PASSING
Aunt Polly called Peter on the 4th of April, 1977 relating the sad news that uncle Kirk, at age eighty-four, had died April 2nd in a hospital near Millburn, after about eight days care there. He had worked hard at the business recently and had spr ained his back. He had lost some weight and went in for a checkup. Kirk had a benign intestinal tumor removed and was healing well. However, he developed weak blood and died quickly of pneumonia.
Kirk had a private interment with a navy flag at their family cemetery plot in Millburn and a small memorial service was held later in church.
"In politics he was a Republican. His special interests included world geography and earth sciences, meteorology, aviation, travel, and golf." (ibid.# 3)

(Research):GENERAL NOTE:
Peter had various conversations with his mother and her family while growing up and living in Massachusetts, regarding his father, Donald McFarlin and the McFarlin family of New Jersey.

NOTES AND REFERENCES
-(# 1) McFarlin; 1966 - In October, while living in Riverdale, NJ and working at Alpine Geophysical Associates in Norwood, NJ, PFM first ever looked up (and 'phoned) his uncle Kirk and aunt Polly McFarlin. This was followed in November by a visi t from PFM to the McFarlin's home on Delwick Lane in Short Hills, NJ. At that time, uncle Kirk gave PFM a small amount of data and information.
-- McFarlin; 1974 - Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 189 7 (1877?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and no tes in his possession at that time.
-- McFarlin; 9-10 October, 1974 - Personal conversations between PFM and Kirk and Polly McFarlin at their home in Short Hills NJ. These were willingly taped and later transcribed to text. Occasional phone conversations and letters from Uncle Kir k to PFM followed between 1967 and up to March of 1977, one month before Kirk died.
- (# 2) The Atchison Topeka & Sante Fe, by Charles S Gleed, The Cosmopolitan - Feb, 1893.
- (# 3) The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1980, V59 p173.
- (# 4) Rife Hydraulic Engine Manufacturing Co, Millburn, NJ; 1965, Water pumps driven only by the water's gravity power.
- (# 5) US Patent Office; patents # 2,572,173 1951(strainer), and #3,037,636 1962 (valve housing).

OTHER SOURCES:
- 1900 census; East Orange, Essex co, NJ ED 180 p 201; Charles K McFarlin a 8 b Kansas, living with his parents and grandmother; J Mary Wilsey - all living at their home at 16 Hawthorne Ave.
- 1910 census; East Orange, Essex co, NJ ED 163 p 266; Charles K MacFarland(sic) a 18 b New Jersey(sic) living with his parents and brother Donald at their home at 180 Glenwood Ave.
- 1920 census; East Orange, Essex co, NJ ED 31 p 70; Charles K McFarlin a 28 b Kansas living with his parents and Donald at 170 Eastwood St (corn. of Glenwood Ave)
- 1930 census; Millburn, Essex co, NJ ED 7-506 p 22; Kirk McFarlin a 37 b Kansas living with wife Adelaide a 29 and maid Hilda Reinhauer a 23, all at Delwick Lane.
- 1977 Soc Sec death index, SSN 150-03-7996
- Various US Passport and immigration records.

Charles married Adelaide Sutherland Hollenbeck on 8 May 1926 in Maplewood, Essex Co, New Jersey, USA. Adelaide was born on 19 May 1900 in Brooklyn Maternity Hospital, Kings Co, New York, USA; died on 1 Oct 1999 in Methodist Hospital Medical Ctr, Houston, Harris Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Real Estate Broker and Hotel Manager

Notes:

DONALD WELLES MCFARLIN 1900 - 1967 by; Peter F McFarlin - 2008, 2009

HAPPY DAYS OF YOUTH
My father, Donald Welles McFarlin, was the second son of William Kirk and Margaret Welles (Wiltsie) McFarlin and was born Oct 18, 1900 in his parents home at Hawthorne Ave, East Orange, New Jersey (NJ). As to the spelling of the Scots last name; b y 1900, Donald's father William had begun using the shortened version; McFarlin, although when young he and his father had spelt it McFarland.
Donald's eyes were blue and hair quite blond and wavy when young, becoming brown and curly by his teens. As shown by photographs, Donald was wearing glasses by age twenty. He was slender and reached about six feet when mature. He enjoyed reading m ore than sports and had a strong interest in family history/genealogy (!).
Donald grew up in the early 1900's in an affluent family setting in the town of East Orange, New Jersey (NJ), first at 16 Hawthorne Ave and then at 170 Glenwood Ave. The residents there were mainly New York City train-commuters and the area was al most wholly residential. He and his brother Kirk, eight-years older, went to the local elementary schools and both eventually to the fine East Orange High School, located on Winans Street, a one mile walk away. During summers some of the young boy 's visits were to the Wiltsie relatives in Chicago and to the Welles' homestead in Lake Keuka, New York. They also went to Florida to the Deland area. There were no known visits to the grandparent's McFarland/McFarlin homestead in Coitsville, Ohio . As my uncle Kirk says (# 3); "...I didn't know one single person on that side. My father had brothers, I never knew any of them...he had a brother Frank who died before I was old enough to know him."
One photo, about 1903, shows a three-year old Donald being playfully chased by eleven-year-old brother Kirk. Another picture is of five-year-old Donald holding up a heavy woodchuck just shot by brother Kirk in a recently cleared field, full of stu mps. (These photos, among various others, were given to Donald's son Peter in 1974, when he visited his uncle Kirk in Short Hills, New Jersey (# 2).
In 1908, while Donald was eight and still in the elementary schools, his brother Kirk left for Williams College, in Massachusetts (MA). From then on Donald and Kirk had limited contact except for the summers when both might be at home at the sam e time. Kirk explains; "...we fell apart ... from 1909 until 1920, except for a small amount of time, I was totally away, and after that time, he was away."
The 1910 census, taken in April, listed young Donald's family household under the last name spelled MacFarland and that his father William (and Wms parents, too), were born in Scotland. Furthermore, that William had immigrated in 1885 and was natu ralized - both erroneous data, and not likely made up by the census taker. Someone (Donald's mother Margaret?) had given the enumerator mistaken information. His father William was (correctly) listed as a "railroad manager" who owned their home fr ee of mortgage. They employed a live-in cook; Ida Aramson age 22, who had arrived from Sweden in 1904. All of the families in their Glenwood Street area were also well-to-do professionals who had from one to three servants per household.

MCFARLINS MEET FOLSOMS
About 1912, when Donald McFarlin was twelve, he attended a summer camp in New Hampshire where he and some of the boys wore shirts with a large W on them (perhaps for Lake Winnepesaukee?). Also at this camp was PFM's uncle-to-be; Edmund Hoffman Fol som who was one year older than Donald. They became good friends, exchanging photos and vying for muscular bragging rights (stretching on tiptoes and pushing up the biceps in photos). During these times (of 1912-1914) Donald probably stopped in af ter summer camp to visit Edmund at his home in nearby Brookline, (MA). In this Brookline Folsom family, Edmund had an older sister, Mary born 1896 and younger sister Margaret, born in 1906. Donald's brother Kirk would court Mary Folsom; 1917 to 19 25, and he, Donald himself, would later date, and then marry, Margaret Folsom in 1932.

TRIP ABROAD
In the late summer of 1913 Donald accompanied his mother Margaret and twenty-one year-old brother Kirk on a six week tour of Europe. They likely arrived in England first and then on into France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. A photograph of Dona ld and his mother Margaret was taken by brother Kirk on a hillside path in Switzerland. Thirteen-year-old Donald with backpack is leaning on his alpenstock just above a railroad track with the snow-capped Jungfrau in the background. Coincidentally , his son Peter later goes up that same railroad to the Jungfrau, during the winter of 1956, while on leave from his US Army station in Mainz, Germany.
The McFarlins returned to New York City from Naples, Italy on the SS Princess Irene arriving Sept 25th, 1913, just prior to WW I.

UNIVERSITIES
In the 1920 US Census, taken on January 3rd, nineteen-year-old Donald is enumerated in his parents house, still at 170 Glenwood Ave in East Orange (owned free of mortgage), and is attending school (college). In the garage at the rear of the McFarl in property live their chauffeur George Ader with his wife (cook), and daughter (nurse) as well as two household maids. The nurse likely was for Mrs McFarlin for her "nervous condition" (described below by her son Kirk). The family was still prosp ering with; William conducting railroad construction (with his partner, Frank Hyde), brother Kirk in import/export brokerage and Donald starting his higher education.
Donald was just a few months too young to register for the WW I draft in 1917. Upon graduating from East Orange High School in 1918, Donald attended William's College for two years, but then transferred to Cornell for one year. He was a member o f Psi Upsilon fraternity, as was his brother before him at Williams. However, Donald did not finish college, called back, I think, by the family troubles at home.

DONALD'S PARENTS SEPARATE
We pick up uncle Kirk's story (# 3) again about this time; ..."Now my father - it was in 1921 or 1922 that my father and mother separated. ...my mother had developed what I considered to be a nervous condition, which pursued her until eventually s he had a stroke. ... After the separation they lived apart for the rest of their lives."
Donald at first chose to go with his father to William's nearby apartment in East Orange while brother Kirk went to live with their mother in her new home in South Terrace, Millburn, NJ. "My father set up single living in an apartment down in Eas t Orange. My brother went with him". As soon as Donald left college he went into real estate business in the East Orange area while living at his father's apartment there.

DONALD'S CAREER
Regarding his brother Donald, uncle Kirk relates to PFM in 1974 that "He was in the real estate business here, and he actually sold this property next door to us (Delwick Lane) to a friend of ours who built a house there." Brother Kirk and Mary Fo lsom picked up Donald in the town of Boonton on Sunday Oct 26th, 1924 and they spent the day together at his mother Margaret's Millburn home. The three played tennis in the afternoon "at the club" until it got dark and after supper they all drov e Donald back to Boonton (his apartment there?).
Donald had started working for the General Motors Corporation in the winter of 1924 and in May of 1925 he "came into a better position" with them. This was apparently a temporary career change. When Kirk married in 1926, Donald moved back with hi s mother at South Terrace to be with her. "Then he went into building construction with an uncle on my mother's side (George Wiltsie) and they operated here for a couple of years." The 1930 US Census shows Donald living with his sixty-five year-ol d mother at 84 South Terrace in Millburn. He is listed there as a general manager in building construction.
"Then Donald joined some real estate organization in Hoboken." relates his brother Kirk. Donald applied for Social Security (# 151-09-0226) on Nov 30th 1936 giving his home address as 10 Park Ave, Maplewood, New Jersey and his employer as the Hobo ken Land and Improvement Co.

DONALD AND PEGGY FOLSOM
As mentioned before, Donald had first met Peggy Folsom through her brother Edmund's New Hampshire camp and Donald's early visit(s?) to their Brookline home. Donald was about thirteen and she about seven at that time. The Folsom/McFarlin family con nection continued in the teens and early twenties when Peggy's older sister Mary and Donald's older brother Kirk were dating. The two familys may have had a further connection through the Lake Placid Club in Essex County, New York where Kirk McFar lin, his mother Margaret and perhaps his brother Donald, took vacations during the summers. Mary Folsom had canoed there with Kirk and his mother in the summer of 1924.
Also, during the summer of 1925, Peg's brother Edmund lived at his wife Esther Dann's parent's summer place in Camp Abenaki almost next to the Lake Placid Club. He helped run the large Placid Club's laundry facility for his father-in-law, James Da nn, who was in the professional laundry business. It is quite likely Eddie and the McFarlin's were in touch there in the Adirondacks. And then, in that fall of '25, he and wife Esther moved to 173 Park Ave in East Orange, less than ten miles awa y from his old camping friend, Donald McFarlin, who was living with his mother Margaret at South Terrace in Millburn (Short Hills) New Jersey.
No doubt Donald and his family occasionally visited together with Eddie and Esther Folsom. Then Ed became ill with Bright's disease, returned to Brookline in 1927 and died there in July, 1929 (on his sister Peggy's twenty-third birthday, which dev astated her, due to Peg's closeness to her brother). It is likely that Donald came to Brookline to pay his respects to Ed Folsom's family and became re-acquainted with Peg. For the next year, she continued at The School of the Museum of Fine Art s (Boston) graduating in June of 1930.
During that year Donald and Peg became closer and then, by spring of 1931, they announced their engagement. Some of the photos taken of them at her parents home at 200 Washington St in Wellesley Hills in this year, include Peg's 1930 Ford Mode l A Roadster which she used in Massachusetts and loved to drive. Donald was still living with his mother at her home at South Terrace in Millburn, New Jersey, and he would come to Wellesley by train. He remained in real estate and construction eve n though business times were difficult just after the Oct Crash of '29. Times became even more difficult during the ten year depression that followed.

WEDDING BELLS
Donald and Peggy were married in January of 1932 at the Church of our Savior in Longwood, Massachusetts, with a small gathering of relatives and close friends. They stayed at the Charlesgate Hotel in Boston for several days and then 'honeymooned ' in his mother's South Terrace home in New Jersey, for two weeks while she was in Florida. They were having their own little rental house at 222 Hillside Ave in nearby Chatham cleaned and painted. They moved in there by mid-February. This first h ome was about three miles away from his mother's house and four from brother Kirks and Pollys.
When Peg's parents Mollie and Franklin were first visiting them in Chatham in May of 1932, Mrs Folsom (Mollie) wrote a newsy letter to Peg's sister Mary Applegate in Wellesley. Part of which is; "Margaret was going to write you, but they at presen t, have a great deal to worry them and I do wish we could lend a helping hand, but we simply cannot. Donald is proud and doesn't want us to know, but Margaret has told us secretly..." This appears to be the start of some of Donald's (and Peg's) co ming monetary hard times.
The Kirk McFarlins had a nice family gathering at Delwick Lane for Christmas of 1932, with Kirk taking a 'cable' picture of the group at table. Then, some time in mid to late 1933, Peggy had a miscarraige of a baby, perhaps by a fall down some sta irs (Alison's recollection from her mother), and Peter recalls his mother telling him it was born a 'blue baby'. The boy would have been named David.

GOOD? TIMES
The speak-easy days ended in 1933 with the repeal of alcohol prohibition. At about the same time the newly-weds Donald and Peggy began to go into New York City fairly often, to the theater, dinner shows, and clubs. His mother later tells Peter tha t they became friendly with some of the better known musicians such as Tommy Dorsey. Donald began to drink more heavily and, she says, he gambled. Donald sometimes continued this trend, alone, and he began to stay out late, eventually inviting peo ple out to their home, unannounced, while Peggy was home alone.
But there were many good times too, there at their next home at 8 Everett Place in Maplewood. A 1934 photo of Donald, is captioned by Peggy on the reverse with; "Donald and Peggy on wedding trip - two years late - this 'trip' was a five day moto r trip much appreciated. Money is so scarce!" The photo shows just Donald with his suit jacket off and holding a cigarette. In all the other photos of him, Donald wore suits.
When Peg's parents came from Wellesley to stay for the birth of Alison during June and July of 1934, we find Donald; helping paint the newborn's 'carrying basket', going together with Peg to visit friends and joking about being kicked by the 'jump ing bean' inside Peggy. Mollie writes (to Mary A); "Donald is out hoeing and Peggy is holding her breath as she says he does not know a violet from a weed, but I told her never mind. ...She and Donald went to the the 4th of July comedy put on by t he town and later she, her father and Donald went out to see the fireworks."
Peggy wrote in July 1934 to her sister Mary about having had quite an adventure; "I'll bet mother didn't tell you about our ride out to Mendham in Washington Valley, last week, when Dan (Wright) came to dinner and we all had a beautiful drive thro ugh that hilly, quaint district and saw a splendid job, an estate Dan is doing out there. I'll bet she didn't tell about the night we were out in the Reservation and got stuck, and the miles Donald had to walk after monkey wrenches, and the teleph one for help, and how Kirk towed us to a garage in Springfield, dogs and all!" They also made various short trips to Mrs. McFarlins and Kirk and Polly's.

DONALD'S FAMILY GROWS
Finally the long-delayed (date was misjudged) birth-event happened and baby Margaret Alison McFarlin was born, August 1st, 1934 at the Orange Memorial Hospital. There were many visits from family and friends.
In the photo at left, Alison is standing in her carraige at nine months old. Donald and Peggy are visiting at his brother's Delwick Lane, Short Hills home. Polly looks on as Kirk takes the picture and their son Kirk jr hams it up lying on the wall .
In March of 1936, they moved to 10 Park Avenue, Maplewood and the Folsoms came to visit (via train, as they usually did) for a week or so at Thanksgiving time. Mollie writes; "Mr McFarlin is coming to dinner on Thanksgiving, Kirk and Polly going t o Mrs. McFarlins." Early in December Peggy writes that they went to see "The Great Zeigfield", a musical film that won three oscars. However, the 1936 letters from 10 Park Ave make little mention of Donald, and Peggy is now signing "Peggy and Alis on".
On a visit to Mary Applegate's Wareland Road home in July of 1936, Donald, Alison and Peg are on the lawn in front where Alison has just cooled off in a dishpan of water.
"Then Donald joined some real estate organization in Hoboken..." relates his brother Kirk. Donald applied for Social Security (#151-09-0226) on Nov 30th 1936 giving his home address as 10 Park Ave, Maplewood, New Jersey and his employer as the Hob oken Land and Improvement Co.
Donald and Peg's last child, Peter Folsom McFarlin, is born February 18, 1937 at Orange Memorial Hospital. Written in his baby book (by his mother) for his 'First Outing' was; "In his third month he made the trip to Wellesley Hills, Mass. Stayed t wo months. Then he and his sister were taken to the Jersey sea-shore. We took a sterno heater along, and heated the bottles which had been kept in an ice pail in the trunk compartment. He slept in a market basket. A crowded automobile, with three -year-old, three-month-old, cat, dog, and ourselves!"
In August of 1937, Peggy returned from her summer stay in Wellesley Hills, met Donald at the shore and they went to his mother's South Terrace home in Short Hills, while his mother was in New Hampshire. Peggy writes her sister on August 27th; "... After three days of doubt and fear of the waves, Alison studied other children going in, and made up her mind to go in, holding on to her mummy and daddy...". This is the last happy mention of Donald.
They then return to their next home at May Terrace in Maplewood. About this time, in 1937, Donald's mother Margaret had a massive stroke while she was visiting cousins in Florida. Conditions between Peggy and Donald worsened, and were heightened a nd made almost impossible by Mrs McFarlin's return and the requirements of her care, even though she had a full time nurse.

COMING APART
A separation was agreed on while Donald attempted to improve himself (alcohol, gambling and behavior). Aunt Elsie MacTaggart writes to Mary, on Nov 15th 1937, "...Margaret, the children and the furniture! are to arrive in Wellesley Hills soon af ter Thanksgiving. Their flat already let for Dec 1st." (prob. May Terrace - PFM) "He goes to his mother, who approves, and to spend holidays with his family."... (Peggy and children in Wellesley - PFM)... " All is amicable. Mary goes to take Aliso n temporarily during upheaval." Elsie continues; "Questions arise in my mind, naturally, and I wonder if funds for Mrs. McF have been stopped and it is deemed unsuitable to take her into the family of children. She is extremely difficult, screamin g when opposed, at times at the top of her lungs." Apparently, the Folsom family had been helping out with Mrs. McFarlin's expenses, too?
Peg and children did return to Wellesley Hills in 1937, first stopping with her sister Mary at Wareland Rd until taking a rental house at 48 Laurel Ave for a year until October of 1938. She and Donald attempted to reconcile during this period, bu t In July of '38, Peg writes a difficult and poignant letter to her Aunt Elsie.
"...Unfortunately, it has been proven that I cannot trust Donald, nor feel SAFE for the children or myself while he is my husband. The papers, filing suit for divorce on grounds of intoxification and mental cruelty, will be sent to Donald. ...Fina ncial promises have not come true: Donald has defaulted time after time and left me worried and frightened for the children. I have excused him, looking for rehabilitation of his great excesses.
"This last occurance, last week, was the end as far as I was concerned. An intoxification of a week, following a casual 'throwing up' of his position, and then daring to come to me and the children with no proper explanation of his conduct, was a n insult to my intelligence.
"After his mother left - a most difficult situation - I sent him away. ...Mary and Tertius, out of the goodness of their hearts, have offered me a place with them , free of rental, throughout the winter. ...The winter's arrangement will enable m e to start the long-needed 'rainy-day' fund that is compulsory when small children are concerned. ...I can 'pull my own weight', particularly when unhampered by never knowing what sad happening might turn up next by a weak, unstable character."
This powerful 1938 letter came into PFM's hands years after both Donald and Peggy had died. A strong, sad message from the past which shed some light on those difficult times. There are no other family photos of Donald or any further references t o him in our family letters.
Donald McFarlin declared bankruptcy in January of 1939 in the United States District Court of New Jersey. On October 20th 1939 Margaret Folsom McFarlin was granted a divorce from Donald on the grounds of abusive treatment and alcoholism. She was a warded custody of Alison and Peter and they remained in Wellesley Hills through 1955, when Peter went into the US Army and Alison married in 1956.

NEW BEGINNINGS -- THEN DONALD'S PASSING
Peter's uncle Kirk continues in their 1974 interview regarding his brother Donald; "...then he worked for my father for a time and eventually ended up with the Washington government in supply during the War. and while he was there he met his seco nd wife. She was in the Washington picture somewhere. She was Alice Miller and was very nice and unassuming. She had a daughter from a previous, unsuccessful marraige (Donald and Alice had no children). ...after his war bureau closed up...in 1945 , he moved to Florida and from there to Jamaica. (When Donald's son Peter visited cousin Kirk McFarlin (called Mac) in Rio Dulce, Guatemala in February of 2009, Mac said he had visited Donald in the 1950's while in the U.S. Marines. They had share d some Jamaican rum up in the hills above Kingston at Donald's hotel retreat which Donald and Alice owned and ran at the time.)
"They spent four or five years in Jamaica in motel work - managing. They tried to translate that into an enterprise...somewhere outside of Kingston - on the south shore. After four or five years, they found they could not combat the native strengt h without capital. This was very difficult - and they did not have the capital. So they finally withdrew from there and came back to Florida. They returned into the hotel/motel management operation and continued that until he became seriously ill.
"It was cancer of the throat. It was terrible. We were on our way to Guatemala and we stopped there (in Florida, about 1965-66) and he had had one operation and then a second operation and I think we were there between the first and the second. I t was hopeless and progressive, and this person, whom he had married, had nursed him when they had exhausted their hospital means. She nursed him for almost a year, single-handed, under conditions that were very difficult. And it was for this tha t we had a great deal of respect for her."
In a Jan 27th 1967 letter to Peter, his uncle Kirk writes;

"My dear Peter;
"I wrote your father at once about your visit here, and of your request that I do so. I had heard from him shortly before that time, but he was apparently not able to write after receiving my letter. His condition became critical and in early Janu ary he was moved back to the hospital. I am sorry to have to tell you that he passed away on January 12th, after an illness extending a little more than a year. His wife advised me of his desire to be cremated, and to be buried in the family plo t here in Millburn. ...Very cordially yours - Kirk McFarlin"

Donald's widow returned to Washington DC and worked for Lord and Taylor's for at least seven years before eventually moving to Wisconsin to live with her daughter and family. At the age of ninety-six, Alice Miller McFarlin died November of 1996 i n Three Lakes, Oneida county, Wisconsin, near her daughter's family.

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Family Tree for Mr. Peter Folsom McFarlin
REMAINDERS AND CLOSURE
Peter and Alison have talked over the lack of their father ever contacting them during the almost thirty years from 1938 until his death in 1967. It remains a mystery why he did not and is something that was missed by them. But, even more, look wh at he missed out on, with us.
We wonder if the McFarlin/Folsom families might have created such a binding constraint on Donald that, at first, he found it beyond himself to make the contact, even if he'd wanted to. And later, he might have just drifted completely apart from h is children, as he slowly rebuilt his life, away from all reminders of the arguments and stress generated from his mother and Peggy's conflicting demands and needs.
Alison has no recollections of her father. Peter has always had one dim scene he 'remembers'; sort of interacting with his father. Peter was lying in his crib (at about age one) and his father pushed a ball towards Peter, (hoping to play ball?), b ut Peter (the baby), didn't push it back and Donald turned away disappointed. A peculiar memory to have carried all these years.
In the early 1980's, Peter, by himself, conducted a process of contacting his father. Without the details of the methods, but through meditation, Peter asked for a 'healing' contact with his father. During this, Peter felt a sharp electric 'jolt ' on his right shoulder blade, strong, but not unpleasant, and received a 'message' of mutual forgiveness with his father from the 'other side'. I forgave him and, most importantly, he forgave himself.

GENERAL NOTE:
While growing up and living in Massachusetts, Peter had various short conversations with his mother and her family, regarding his father, Donald McFarlin and the McFarlin family of New Jersey. Peter never met or spoke with his father after the sep aration of Donald and his mother Peggy in 1938 (when Peter was one).
In 1966 Peter asked if his uncle Kirk would please communicate with Donald in Florida to let him know of how Peter and Alison were doing, and that Peter would like to contact him (see above).

NOTES AND REFERENCES
- (# 1) McFarlin; 1966 - In October, while living in Riverdale, NJ and working at Alpine Geophysical Associates in Norwood, NJ, PFM first ever looked up (and telephoned) his uncle Kirk and aunt Polly McFarlin. This was followed in November by a vi sit from PFM to the McFarlin's home on Delwick Lane in Short Hills, NJ. At that time, uncle Kirk gave PFM a small amount of data and information.
- (# 2) McFarlin; 1974 - Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9 , 1897 (1877?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible a nd notes in his possession at that time. Various McFarlin family photos also were given to PFM at this time.
- (# 3) McFarlin; 9-10 October, 1974 - Personal conversations between PFM and Kirk and Polly McFarlin at their home in Short Hills NJ. These were willingly taped and later transcribed to text. Occasional phone conversations with and letters from U ncle Kirk to PFM followed between 1967 and March of 1977, one month before Kirk died.
- (# 4) Family letters and photos in PFM's possession in 2008.

OTHER SOURCES:
- 1900 census; East Orange, Essex co, NJ ED 180 p 201; William K McFarlin a 39 b Ohio Mar 1861, Margaret W a 35 b Illinois Sept 1864, Charles K a 8 b Kansas b June 1892(?) and J Mary W Wilsey a 67 b New York July 1832 - all living at their home a t 16 Hawthorne Ave.(no Donald listed - census was taken in June, four months before his birth).
- 1910 census; East Orange, Essex co, NJ ED 163 p 266; Donald MacFarland(sic) a 9 b New Jersey living with his parents and brother Charles K at their home at 180 (sic) Glenwood Ave.
- 1913 SS Princess Irene passenger list; from Naples, Italy Sept 12th, arriving NYC Sept 25th. Donald McFarlin, age 12 b Oct 18 1900 East Orange, NJ with his mother Margaret McF a 48 b Sept 24 1864 Elgin, IL and brother Kirk McF a 21 b June 17 189 2 Topeka, KA, all three giving home address as 170 Glenwood Ave, East Orange, NJ.
- 1920 census; East Orange, Essex co, NJ ED 31 p 70; Donald W McFarlin a 19 b New Jersey, attending school, living with his parents and brother Kirk at 170 Glenwood Ave. Also in household were a chauffeur, cook, nurse and two maids, all living i n the McFarlin's garage at the rear of the property. The property was owned by the McFarlin's free of mortgage.
- 1930 census; Millburn, Essex co, NJ ED 7-505 p 5b; Donald W McFarlin a 29 b New Jersey General Manager in Building Construction, with his mother Margaret a 65 b Illinois. Both living in her home at 84 South Terrace with it's value of $32,500.
- 1932 Certificate of marraige; The Church of Our Savior, Brookline Massachusetts on the 23rd of January, 1932 between Donald Welles McFarlin and Margaret Folsom.
- 1936 SS # 151-09-0226; application dated Nov 30 for Donald Welles McFarlin of 10 Park Ave, Maplewood, New Jersey, born Oct 18 1900 in East Orange New Jersey. His employer was the Hoboken Land and Improvement Co, 1 Newark St, Hoboken NJ.
- 1939 Notice of bankruptcy - for Donald McFarlin by the US District Court of New Jersey, dated January 24th.
- 1939 Decree of divorce NISI # 5176; Dedham Probate Court, Massachusetts, dated Oct 20 (effective in 6 months) - between Margaret Folsom McFarlin of Wellesley, Norfolk co, and Donald W McFarlin of Short Hills, New Jersey. Stated causes were; "... cruel and abusive treatment and gross and confirmed habits of intoxication caused by the voluntary and excessive use of intoxicating liquor...", and that; "...the care and custody of their minor children, to wit: Margaret Alison McFarlin and Pete r Folsom McFarlin be and it is hereby awarded to the said libellant." (Margaret Folsom McFarlin)
- 1967 Certificate of death, State of Florida. Donald W McFarlin died at the Victoria Hospital, Miami, Dade County, of carcinoma of the pharynx (onset was 12 months earlier), informant was Mrs Alice McFarlin of 8235 Northeast 1st Ave (rear), Miam i FL. Donald was cremated 1/14/67, and later interred in the McFarlin family plot in Millburn, NJ.

Donald married Margaret Folsom on 23 Jan 1932 in Brookline, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts, USA, and was divorced on 20 Oct 1939. Margaret was born on 5 Jul 1906 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 3 Jun 1970 in Putnam, Windham, Connecticut, USA; was buried on 16 Jun 1970 in Exeter, Rockingham Co, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Donald married Alice Katherine Miller about 1942. Alice was born on 22 Feb 1900 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA; died on 28 Nov 1996 in Three Lakes, Oneida Co, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mamie married Frank A Peterson on 28 Sep 1921 in Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elva married James H Phillips on 25 Nov 1977 in Carmel, Monterey, California, USA. James was born about 1898 in Virginia?; died in Oct 1983 in Carmel, Monterey, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elva married [--?--] Covell about 1925. [--?--] died before 1977. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

ALBERT ANDERSON MCFARLIN (1908 to 1981)
(Research by Peter F McFarlin, Dec 2013, revised Oct 2018.)

Albert Anderson McFarlin was born in Kansas City Missouri, and was liv ing with his parents in Kansas City, Jackson co, Missouri in April o f 1910 for the U S Census. He was age 1and 4/12, with his older sister s Leota a 20, Mamie a 18, Elva a 15 . His older sister Phoebe had die d by 1910.
In the 1920 census, Albert A McFarlin, a 11 and attending school, is w ith his father and mother and a lodger (Maude G Fulton a 20 - counte r girl at restaurant) living Belleville City, Republic co, Kansas. Hi s father was a restaurant proprietor.
The 1925 Kansas State Census lists Albert a 16 with A A McFarlin a 5 9 (restaurant) and Anna a 53.
Albert McFarlin and Neva (Elliott) were married by the 1929 Lawrence , Kansas city directory's listing where he is shown as a student, res . 911 1/2 Massachusetts.
In 1930 the Census of Lawrence, Kansas has Albert A and Neva M McFarli n living at 941 Tennessee St. She is a saleslady in a gift shop and h e is not employed. No children listed.
He apparently attended college for five years. (info found in the 194 0 Hays, Kansas census where his name is Bob McFarland.) Also listed in the 1940 census is their daughter Anna Low McFarland age 5. In the 194 8 Hays City inumeration list Alber t A McFarlin is listed with 3 person s in the family - possibly their daughter Anna?
By 1963 they were listed in the Hays, Kansas City directory; Alber t A McFarlin, editor Hays Daily News. Mrs Neva M McFarlin is the vic e president of The News Publishing Co.
Albert McFarlin SS # 512-07-0066 of 67601 Hays, Ellis, Kansas died Ja n 1981.
Neva Meriam McFarlin SS # 509-10-4768, apparently moved to 345 Esplana de, Irvine CA 92612 where she died 4 Aug 1988.
They are both buried in the Mount Allen Cemetery in Hays, Kansas.

Albert married Neva Meriam Elliot about 1928 in Lawrence, Osborne, Kansas, USA. Neva was born in 1911 in Kansas; died in 1988 in Orange Co., California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Baker. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Menendez. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Never married - no issue. Lived with his parents all his life.

Notes:

KIRK CHARLES (MAC) MCFARLIN (1930 to present) - U.S.MARINE - Contrac t and U.S. Gov't AIR PILOT
(Research by Peter Folsom McFarlin, Kirk's paternal 1st cousin - draf t of Jan 17, 2011, updated Aug 12, 2019)

Most of the following quotes in italics are from the Feb 9 2009 one ho ur interview between Peter McFarlin and his cousin Kirk "Mac" McFarli n in the Mary Ranchon Restaurante, Fronteras, Guatemala - between th e Rio Dulce and Lake Izabel.

YOUTH
Kirk Charles McFarlin was born in East Orange Memorial Hospital, New J ersey (NJ), on July 13, 1930, the second child of Charles Kirk and Ade laide (Hollenbeck) McFarlin who were living at 24 Delwick Lane, Shor t Hills, NJ at the time. (About 192 8 his mother Adelaide had given bir th to a baby girl who did not live.) Both he and his father were name d after their New Jersey/Ohio pioneer ancestors, the Andrew Kirk(patri ck) family. Kirk was often called Peter by his parents, so as not t o b e a 'junior'. Later in life he was called 'Mac'.
Kirk grew up there in Short Hills, NJ with his parents, younger brothe r Everett and a housemaid.

PHOTO OF MOM, KIRK AND ALLIE NEAR HERE

Mac; "I knew her; Peggy - and I thought she was a doll - she was a ver y, very nice girl. Of course I knew Donald, your dad, and I think abou t the last time I saw him was when his mother died ...(1949). I neve r knew Donald because he was never a round when I was and I was never a round when he was, I guess.
Kirk attended the fine local grammar schools nearby but his parents se parated him from his brother Everett.
Mac says "... there were conflicts between me and my brother, he was n ot in my world. They kind of had me going to different schools. Howeve r, Tabor got me - I was there for two and a half years. A year of summ er school and my two last years o f high school."
So, by 1947 he went to Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts and grad uated from that preparatory school in 1949. Coincidentally, Kirk's fir st cousin Alison McFarlin's later-to-be husband, Leo Convery, also att ended Tabor, from 1948 to 1952. Wh en I (PFM) asked Kirk and Leo if the y knew of each other, they both told me they slightly remembered the o ther while at Tabor.

MARINES, CLAIRE BAKER, GENERAL MOTORS, FLYING
Two years later, by April 23rd 1951, Kirk had mustered into the U.S. M arines and was PFC in the 4th Recruit Trng Bn in Quantico VA. (MOS 350 0 basic mtr veh transport). In July 1952 he was in Hq Co 2nd Ord Bn 2n d Marine Div. (MOS 3531 heavy tran sport driver and repair). Then, in J an 1953, still in transport, he was in Camp Lejeune, NC. Fortunately , he was not called to the Korean war conflict which was officially fr om June 25 1950 to July 27 1953, when a cease-fire was agreed to.
When asked about Peter's father, Donald, Mac said; "I knew Alice an d I knew your dad in Jamaica...They were in business in a little retre at for professional people about 15 miles outside of Kingston, up in t he mountains. I was in the service an d our ship put into Kingston an d we were aboard ship (in the Marines). That was in about 1952 or 195 3 because we were down in the Carribean on an island off Puerto Rico . For some reason we went to Kingston at that time. It was about a ten -da y layover. At which time I grabbed a taxi and I went up to see you r dad who was up in the mountains, and drank lots of rum - ha,ha."
In 1953, while riding a train from his NJ home returning to his NC Mar ine station, Kirk met Claire Baker of Melrose, MA who was traveling t o Miami. She was twenty-one and he twenty-three. They corresponded, da ted and later married at Trinity Ch urch in Boston, MA in June, 1954. H e then went to Michigan with Claire and enrolled in the General Motor s Tech School there where he took business courses. While in Flint, Ki rk became very interested in flying and started taking lessons and g o t his flying credentials. Shortly before graduating from GM, he decide d what he really wanted to do was fly full time, and so left the GM pr ogram.
Mac; "And then on to college. That was the whole idea, to get me int o college. ...I went to General Motors Institute. It started off to b e a dealer/management course, then it went from there to engineering . One semester before I graduated, I qu it...because you were in schoo l part-time with General Motors, and they found out I was flying. The y didn't like that and they gave me a choice; either flying or workin g for General Motors. ...I could see myself out on the street after sp endi ng the good years of my life and with nothing. So I left them an d went to flying."
Kirk and Claire had one child; Claire Joyce McFarlin, who was born 1 4 Dec of 1955, in Flint, MI. Claire, and their daughter Claire, live d variously in Flint and then Melrose, Massachusetts with her family w hile Mac pursued his flying career.

GUATEMALA
Peter's question; "What first brought you to Guatemala?"
Mac; "It was on a trip to Venezuela ... about the end of '55, afte r I married claire in '54. - I flew down....it was in a Piper...it wa s a small single engine - tail dragger type"
Peter; "You flew the plane?"
Mac; "Yeah, my father was on a business trip for RIFE and wanted to se e some people in this country, and then all the way down into South am erica, but I got here and I liked it - so I stayed here and he kept o n going, in a commercial plane. I g ot here in Guatemala and I liked it ..."
Kirk's father's business; the Rife Hydraulic Engine Manufacturing Co , had contracts in central America and so he flew his father to Guatem ala where they engineered and installed, for the coffee industry, som e of the gravity-impulse water system s made by Rife. These systems ar e non-electric, purely hydraulic/mechanical and are perfect for drivin g a percentage of confined, flowing water back uphill, especially in p laces where there is no electricity.
Mac; "...and I stayed. And I went back to the States and got my commer cial license, because I had signed a contract with two farms to crop d ust their cotton. So I stayed in the crop dusting business, really u p until the time we left for Africa. "
So, Kirk fell in love with the country and decided to stay there. Clai re and their daughter rejoined him there in Guatemala City in 1959. Hi s daughter Claire (McFarlin) Viviani wrote Peter in 2008 ; "he and m y mother decided that she and I woul d move down to Guatemala and the y would try again. This would have been in 1959. At the time, he was c rop dusting with a bi-wing plane. He was not at home very much as hi s work took him out of the city a lot. After that was when he had an a ir- service business out at the airport, because I remember going t o a hanger...He shared close quarters with Guatemalan workers while i n the dusting business and quickly learned Spanish. During this tim e I attended the American School and continue d there for the ten year s I lived in Guatemala, an excellent school which provided me with a b ilingual education... When I was about nine years old my parents decid ed to get divorced, as they seemed to have gone their separate ways; e ach of th em remarried Guatemalan citizens. Shortly after that my fathe r moved to Liberia, Africa with Gina his new wife."
Mac; "...so, that was my start here in Guatemala, and I liked it and t he money was good. I got here about 1957. In 1958 I made a company 'c ause in the aviation here they passed a law saying no more pilots coul d come in for crop-dusting unles s they had a company and here if you h ad a company you're automatically entitled to participate in any par t of that company's business. So that let me fly right up until '64.
In December, 1964, Kirk married twenty-year-old Lydia Regina Menende z who was living then in Guatemala City. She was from the small town o f Chiquimula, about 60 miles east in the City. Claire and her new Guat emalan husband, Edwardo Sagastume (t hey married about 1965), remaine d in Guatemala until 1969 when they moved with her daughter Claire t o Ann Arbor, Michigan.

LIBERIA
Soon after, in 1965, Kirk and Gina left for Liberia, Africa where he w as under contract for two years as a bush-pilot. "When '64 came in I l eft for Africa for two years....under contract. It was a verbal contra ct, they paid the tickets."
Peter; "What did you do there?"
Mac; "Fly! Fly the whole time. Yeah, we supplied the diamond mining in dustry. Liberia. but that was not a place where you want to reside per manently... I remember there was a fellowthat I wass going to do som e business withover there, found a n 87 carat diamond. The guy went nut s and sold it right away there in Monrovia and I don't know what he di d but the first thing he probably did was buy a white Mercedes. And th at was that. Because deveryone over there, for prestige, had a whit e M ercedes. They took that diamond to ...Amsterdam and they sold it for $ 230,000. What the guy in Liberia got for it I don't know. ...I was goi ng to go into the river, on the bottom, instead of the placer edges.
Peter; "...you went into the mining yourself?"
Mac; "I didn't get into it because of the guy - like I said -
"Yeah, I had all the equipment ready to buy and U.S. Divers gave u s a 50% discount on all the diving equipment, and it would have kept m e there awhile. But, after two years we decided to take a trip to Euro pe to vacation, ...we never got ther e because a cable from Washingto n came in with the invitation to go to Vietnam. We just packed up ever ything, sold our Volkswagon and went back to the States. We had to ge t visas and all, and from there we went to Taipai for two weeks and th e n into Saigon".
So, after the west-Africa job, Kirk and Regina returned to the State s in Dec of 1966 and stayed for two months with his parents in Short H ills, NJ. In a 1967 letter to PFM from his uncle Kirk McFarlin; "We ha ve been enjoying a visit from our ol der son Kirk Jr, called Peter, an d his wife while en route from two years in Liberia to a contract in F ormosa and Indo China. Under contract as pilot for three years..."

FAR EAST FLYING - AIR AMERICA
The Vietnam War occurred in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam from 1959 to 19 75. US involvement escalated in the early 1960's and combat units wer e deployed beginning in 1965.
Peter; "So you went over to Saigon, and you were starting to fly the n for Air America I think? Correct?"
Mac; "Yes that was for five years. That was good experience"
Starting in 1967, Kirk flew special operations missions for Air Americ a in those contested areas. The following is from Wikipedia (2008); "A ir America's slogan was 'Anything, Anywhere, Anytime, Professionally' . This was not an exaggeration as A ir America aircraft, including th e de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and Fairchild C-123 Provider, fle w many types of cargo and people ... to countries such as the Republi c of Viet Nam, the Kingdom of Laos, and Cambodia. It operated from bas e s in those countries and also from bases in Thailand and as far afiel d as Taiwan and Japan. it also, on occasion, flew top-secret mission s into Burma and the People's Republic of China."
Kirk and Regina had two daughters while in the Far East; Regina (Gina ) Maria McFarlin was born in 1967 in Saigon, Vietnam, and her sister L issa Michelle McFarlin was born in 1969 in Vientiane, Laos. In 2008, h is daughter Gina goes on to say tha t her dad did a great deal of perso nnel insertions and removals to save civilian lives while in the Far E ast. In 2006, Kirk refers back to his time when flying the Canadian d e Havilland Caribou twin engine DHC-4 (further designated by the U S a s the C-7 in 1967).

PHOTO OF CARIBOU NEAR HERE

Mac;"Just wanted to mention I have about 2500 hrs Caribou time. It wa s my favorite for special ops, close in air drops and balls-to-the-wal l flying".
During 1967-1971, Air America's 'Captain Kirk' McFarlin also belonge d to the Far East Pilots Association.
Mac; "...I would have stayed with them, but of course, that folded, an d there was no more of that. However, I did go to Washington to try t o get back in. If not there, then somewhere else. And then that wa s a bad time for 'The Company' becaus e they were being investigated b y Congress."
Peter; "Air America? The Far East Association?"
Mac; "Yeah, The Far East Association. So there was just no way to ge t in. In fact they said they were just waiting for attrition to take i t's course. They weren't hiring anybody.
In another letter to PFM in 1971, Kirk's father Kirk (sr) writes; "... our family from the far east came on for their vacation. In September , after they had been back only a few weeks, they pulled up stakes, an d have been with us off and on sinc e that time, a period of great joy , because our Peter (=Kirk) had come through almost five years of cont act with the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao without injury." He furth er writes; "...now we are leaving on Dec 12, 1971 to take our oldes t g rand daughter Claire (16) with us on a journey we hope will take us ar ound the world and give her the same thrill which we have found in th e Far East."

BACK IN TEXAS, MEXICO and SOUTH AMERICA
From about 1978 to about 1984, cousin Kirk and his second family wer e in the Brownsville, Texas area. Kirk worked for the State Dept o n a 'black passport'.
Mac; "That didn't make me at all happy because they took out income ta x, and what was left -- and I was 'outside'- (Kirk was working in Mexi co at the time) - wasn't worth continuing. So after that year I left . and I got back in, to a contractin g operation. We worked anti-drug s - not DEA. We were different, we were State Department. But it was s till anti-drugs. We supported DEA in a lot of cases. So I went on wit h them as a pilot, and it was in '91 I think it was- they made me sit e m anager for the operation here in Guatemala. Because we had been al l over South America and finally the contractors brought me here to Gu atemala."

THE RIO DULCE - GUATEMALA
Mac; "...and I was there until I had passed 60. They didn't want peopl e older than 65. So, my contract expired and they didn't renew it. Tha t was when I decided to build a house. The property where the house i s we bought in '78...the house wa s built in '91."
Daughter Gina relates that her father and mother later (about 1989) se ttled back to the Rio Dulce River area of Guatemala near the town of F ronteras. To get around to different places on the river (Rio), you mu st travel by boat. All homes and b usinesses on the Rio have a boat doc k.
In 2003, Kirk writes to PFM, "After thirty-four years flying in differ ent parts of the world, we are in a completely different environmen t - boats. It's hard to believe that after being a contract pilot doin g 200 miles/hr and going from countr y to country, here we are doing 1 5 mph...The reason behind this is that our house is here and we live h ere...on the Rio Dulce, one of the most picturesque areas of all Centr al America... I and another American built the house with a helper. F o ur bedroom, two bath in partial 'post and beam' design all of processe d pine. The wood building is a blessing as it stays cool even on the h ottest days. Being right on the river and up on a rise makes for a nic e location. It is a refuge for t he sailboats cruising the Caribbean du ring the hurricane season so we have lots of people from all over th e world to enjoy."
In 2008 he and wife Gina still lived there on the Rio Dulce River in G uatemala, which connects Lake Izabal to the Caribbean Atlantic. Kirk' s wife Gina would sometimes return to their apartment in Houston to b e near their daughters Gina and Liss a. Kirk returned to Houston fo r a few weeks in October for their daughter Gina's wedding.
Mac; "It gets hot down here...I like the hot weather. I'm not a cold w eather person....Where we live we have a forest on one side of us an d the normal flow of air comes right through that forest to us and out . Actually I spend a lot of time o n the computer. I'm a big game play er. I play cribbage, with a group that plays for tokens, not for money . No, I've played a lot of games for money.
"Somebody said; 'The day you die, everything will be even, you will no t have won and you will not have lost'."

When Peter and Karen stopped for their Feb 9th, 2009 luncheon meetin g with Mac at the Fronteras restaurant, he had come over by boat fro m his home on the Rio. Peter gave Mac some family biographies he had j ust written as well as some family gen ealogy.
This was the only time first cousins Peter and Mac were ever to be tog ether. Totally worth it!

photo of peter and kirk near here

CLAN MACFARLANE and DNA CONNECTIONS
Mac was agreeable to have his Y-DNA studied with Family Tree DNA, alon gside Peter's and other distant MacFarlane cousins. This is to help de termine our older ancestry, prior to our known connection back to Joh n McFarland (ca1750-1800) and his w ife Margery (Anderson) McFarland (1 756-1838), of Coitsville, Ohio.
In Dec 2015 Peter wrote an email to Mac, and daughters Gina and Lissa : "Kirk's 111 tested gene markers came out as an exact match to mine . This is certainly confirmation of our close genetic relationship o f our male descent. Exact matches are n ot always to be expected...I ca n confirm that we are all certainly descended from the early Earls o f Lennox (from the 1100 and 1200's) and then somewhere later through t he Chiefs of MacFarlanes."
Mac immediately wrote back; "Thank you so much for your email with th e ancestry information. It was super interesting...We are stilll in th e throws of selling here. What exactly are our plans afterwards is sti ll up in the air. Maybe we can ge t together and spend some time. I mis s the north-east...I always loved Maine. I needed a seaplane rating so me years back and got it up there. Beautiful....Mac and Gina. Then fur ther; "Yes, the house in Guatemala is for sale. I want out so we ca n d o something. Gina wants to travel. And I want to fish. We'll see."
In 2019, 89 year-old Mac was mostly back in Houston being cared for b y his family. He had to return there for treatment of some mini-stroke s. They were still trying to sell his home on the Dulce.
The genetic connection studies are ongoing. PFM - August ?? 2019

Sources;
Peter F McFarlin (PFM)'s personal research, plus;
1967-1977 letters to PFM from uncle Charles Kirk (b1892) McFarlin
1974 PFM's personal interview with; Charles Kirk McFarlin
2003-2019 emails from Mac (b1930) McFarlin
2008-2019 interview and emails from Gina (b1967) McFarlin
2008-2019 info and emails from Claire (McFarlin) Viviani
2008-2011 info and emails from Claire (Baker) Sagastume
2009 interview between Peter and Karen McFarlin and his 1st cousin Kir k Charles McFarlin (b1930)

Family/Spouse: Living Menendez. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Claire Joyce Baker. Claire was born on 9 Dec 1932 in Melrose, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 19 Aug 2011 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Allie remembers her family (mother Peggy - probably) saying to Allie that..."she (Peggy, in New Jersey) had supposedly fallen down stairs and lost the baby before having me". 'A stillbirth-miscarraige.
Peter remembers Peggy telling him the boy was going to be named David.

Family/Spouse: Living Larson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Emily Frances Huntington. Emily was born in 1936 in Chilmark, Dukes co, Massachusetts; died on 3 Apr 2013 in Oak Bluffs, Dukes co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Walden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Convery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]