Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 705
THOMAS MACFARLANE

Thomas MACFARLANE, a druggist doing business at Mondamin, is a native of Ohio, and came to Harrison County in 1878. He is a son of John and Mary A. (MULHOLLAND) MACFARLANE, of Scotland and Ohio respectively. There were two children in the family, William and Thomas. Thomas was born January 14, 1852, at Washington, Ohio, where his early education was received. Later on, he attended the Normal School at Normal, Ill., then took a course in Rush Medical College at Chicago, and graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1876. After practicising two or three years in Yates City, Ill., he went to Wichita, Kan., and remained a year or so and then came to Little Sioux, Iowa, and from there to Mondamin. He bought the WILLIAMS drug store in 1881, and now handles grain, stock and agricultural implements, and continues to practice medicine. He enlisted at Portage City, Wis., as a member of the darkest hour of the Civil War. He was discharged for disability, and in a few months, re-enlisted at Janesville, Wis., in the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, and was at the second battle of Bull Run and Antietam, where he was wounded in the left arm, and discharged at the close of the war.

He was united in marriage to Miss Phoebe SILSBY in 1881. She died in 1884, at Little Sioux, and four years later Mr. MACFARLANE married on September 16, 1888, Sadie L., daughter of T. M. C. and Hattie LOGAN, of River Sioux, and as a result of this marriage union one child was born--Rex.

Politically, our subject affiliates with the Democratic party. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, and also the Grand Army of the Republic.

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