Biography

09/04/1811 - 09/25/1889

McFARLAND, Dr. John, a Representative from Indiana County; born, September 4, 1811 in Pennsylvania; attended, Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College), 1835-1837; surgeon, United States Army; physician; elected, burgess, Saltsburg (1841); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1845 and 1846 terms; proprietor, McFarland & Sons Druggists; director, Saltsburg Academy; director, Northwestern Pennsylvania Railroad Company; died, September 25, 1889 in Saltsburg, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; interred, Edgewood Cemetery, Saltsburg, Indiana County, Pennsylvania