Former State Representative Marion Minter McFarland of Brewster County, Texas, after romping around on the open range for fifty-eight years, has been corralled.
This amazing man was born in war ravaged Brandon, Mississippi, following the Civil War - he was known to quip, "There's nothing civil about war." His loving and adoring parents were Thomas Jefferson McFarland, a surgical physician in the Confederate Army, and well-educated artist and musician, Caroline Pauline Jayne McFarland.
When Marion was three, the McFarlands left Mississippi for Texas and lived in several towns before settling in Indianola. There his father practiced medicine and Marion attended public school, completing his education at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
It's believed he was visiting Indianola during the storm of 1886 at which time the town was washed away. His family was certainly there, left and settled in Port Lavaca, Texas. Later Marion founded the Indianola Association - an organization devoted to the memory of the once prosperous seaport town. He was its first president and later elected president for life.
After college, Marion moved to Groesbeck, Limestone County Texas to be near his grandmother, Juliet Jayne and her son, Amos. While there, much of the progress of the town in the eighties may be attributed to him. He was editor and publisher of the Limestone, "New Era". He organized a national bank, organized a board of trade, started the first good roads movement in the county "and generally revolutionized things." At the time he left in 1889, he was a city alderman, city secretary, secretary of the board of trade, and husband of Katherine "Kate" Risien whom he married Dec. 10, 1889.
In 1890, Marion established the Beeville Picayune newspaper in Beeville, Texas.
From that point, Victoria, Texas, was their home and Marion was again a newspaper man having edited The Victoria Daily Times, and where he was elected to the State House of Representatives from Brewster County.
For forty-five years he was a traveling salesman for several lithograph and stationery companies in which he owned interest.
In 1936, at the age of seventy he died in a San Antonio, Texas, hospital and removed to Austin, where "the funeral home was a veritable bower of beautiful floral arrangements, coming from over the state," a testimonial of respect and esteem to the former representative, business and newspaper man.
In 1889 he married Katherine Risien and had two children:
*Myrtle Marion McFarland (1889-?)
*Lt. Marion Earl McFarland (1895-1950)
In 1918 he married Irma Del McCullough & had one daughter:
*Marion Mooreland McFarland (1919-1997)
He married his third wife, Alice Maud Simpson in 1890 and had one son:
*Jack Simpson McFarland (1899-1943)
This amazing man was born in war ravaged Brandon, Mississippi, following the Civil War - he was known to quip, "There's nothing civil about war." His loving and adoring parents were Thomas Jefferson McFarland, a surgical physician in the Confederate Army, and well-educated artist and musician, Caroline Pauline Jayne McFarland.
When Marion was three, the McFarlands left Mississippi for Texas and lived in several towns before settling in Indianola. There his father practiced medicine and Marion attended public school, completing his education at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
It's believed he was visiting Indianola during the storm of 1886 at which time the town was washed away. His family was certainly there, left and settled in Port Lavaca, Texas. Later Marion founded the Indianola Association - an organization devoted to the memory of the once prosperous seaport town. He was its first president and later elected president for life.
After college, Marion moved to Groesbeck, Limestone County Texas to be near his grandmother, Juliet Jayne and her son, Amos. While there, much of the progress of the town in the eighties may be attributed to him. He was editor and publisher of the Limestone, "New Era". He organized a national bank, organized a board of trade, started the first good roads movement in the county "and generally revolutionized things." At the time he left in 1889, he was a city alderman, city secretary, secretary of the board of trade, and husband of Katherine "Kate" Risien whom he married Dec. 10, 1889.
In 1890, Marion established the Beeville Picayune newspaper in Beeville, Texas.
From that point, Victoria, Texas, was their home and Marion was again a newspaper man having edited The Victoria Daily Times, and where he was elected to the State House of Representatives from Brewster County.
For forty-five years he was a traveling salesman for several lithograph and stationery companies in which he owned interest.
In 1936, at the age of seventy he died in a San Antonio, Texas, hospital and removed to Austin, where "the funeral home was a veritable bower of beautiful floral arrangements, coming from over the state," a testimonial of respect and esteem to the former representative, business and newspaper man.
In 1889 he married Katherine Risien and had two children:
*Myrtle Marion McFarland (1889-?)
*Lt. Marion Earl McFarland (1895-1950)
In 1918 he married Irma Del McCullough & had one daughter:
*Marion Mooreland McFarland (1919-1997)
He married his third wife, Alice Maud Simpson in 1890 and had one son:
*Jack Simpson McFarland (1899-1943)
Former State Representative Marion Minter McFarland of Brewster County, Texas, after romping around on the open range for fifty-eight years, has been corralled.
This amazing man was born in war ravaged Brandon, Mississippi, following the Civil War - he was known to quip, "There's nothing civil about war." His loving and adoring parents were Thomas Jefferson McFarland, a surgical physician in the Confederate Army, and well-educated artist and musician, Caroline Pauline Jayne McFarland.
When Marion was three, the McFarlands left Mississippi for Texas and lived in several towns before settling in Indianola. There his father practiced medicine and Marion attended public school, completing his education at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
It's believed he was visiting Indianola during the storm of 1886 at which time the town was washed away. His family was certainly there, left and settled in Port Lavaca, Texas. Later Marion founded the Indianola Association - an organization devoted to the memory of the once prosperous seaport town. He was its first president and later elected president for life.
After college, Marion moved to Groesbeck, Limestone County Texas to be near his grandmother, Juliet Jayne and her son, Amos. While there, much of the progress of the town in the eighties may be attributed to him. He was editor and publisher of the Limestone, "New Era". He organized a national bank, organized a board of trade, started the first good roads movement in the county "and generally revolutionized things." At the time he left in 1889, he was a city alderman, city secretary, secretary of the board of trade, and husband of Katherine "Kate" Risien whom he married Dec. 10, 1889.
In 1890, Marion established the Beeville Picayune newspaper in Beeville, Texas.
From that point, Victoria, Texas, was their home and Marion was again a newspaper man having edited The Victoria Daily Times, and where he was elected to the State House of Representatives from Brewster County.
For forty-five years he was a traveling salesman for several lithograph and stationery companies in which he owned interest.
In 1936, at the age of seventy he died in a San Antonio, Texas, hospital and removed to Austin, where "the funeral home was a veritable bower of beautiful floral arrangements, coming from over the state," a testimonial of respect and esteem to the former representative, business and newspaper man.
In 1889 he married Katherine Risien and had two children:
*Myrtle Marion McFarland (1889-?)
*Lt. Marion Earl McFarland (1895-1950)
In 1918 he married Irma Del McCullough & had one daughter:
*Marion Mooreland McFarland (1919-1997)
He married his third wife, Alice Maud Simpson in 1890 and had one son:
*Jack Simpson McFarland (1899-1943)
This amazing man was born in war ravaged Brandon, Mississippi, following the Civil War - he was known to quip, "There's nothing civil about war." His loving and adoring parents were Thomas Jefferson McFarland, a surgical physician in the Confederate Army, and well-educated artist and musician, Caroline Pauline Jayne McFarland.
When Marion was three, the McFarlands left Mississippi for Texas and lived in several towns before settling in Indianola. There his father practiced medicine and Marion attended public school, completing his education at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
It's believed he was visiting Indianola during the storm of 1886 at which time the town was washed away. His family was certainly there, left and settled in Port Lavaca, Texas. Later Marion founded the Indianola Association - an organization devoted to the memory of the once prosperous seaport town. He was its first president and later elected president for life.
After college, Marion moved to Groesbeck, Limestone County Texas to be near his grandmother, Juliet Jayne and her son, Amos. While there, much of the progress of the town in the eighties may be attributed to him. He was editor and publisher of the Limestone, "New Era". He organized a national bank, organized a board of trade, started the first good roads movement in the county "and generally revolutionized things." At the time he left in 1889, he was a city alderman, city secretary, secretary of the board of trade, and husband of Katherine "Kate" Risien whom he married Dec. 10, 1889.
In 1890, Marion established the Beeville Picayune newspaper in Beeville, Texas.
From that point, Victoria, Texas, was their home and Marion was again a newspaper man having edited The Victoria Daily Times, and where he was elected to the State House of Representatives from Brewster County.
For forty-five years he was a traveling salesman for several lithograph and stationery companies in which he owned interest.
In 1936, at the age of seventy he died in a San Antonio, Texas, hospital and removed to Austin, where "the funeral home was a veritable bower of beautiful floral arrangements, coming from over the state," a testimonial of respect and esteem to the former representative, business and newspaper man.
In 1889 he married Katherine Risien and had two children:
*Myrtle Marion McFarland (1889-?)
*Lt. Marion Earl McFarland (1895-1950)
In 1918 he married Irma Del McCullough & had one daughter:
*Marion Mooreland McFarland (1919-1997)
He married his third wife, Alice Maud Simpson in 1890 and had one son:
*Jack Simpson McFarland (1899-1943)
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