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Below is a family biography included in The History of Gibson County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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Hon. W. I. McFarland, of Humboldt, is a son of Rev. J. W. McFarland, a prominent divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. W. I. was born in Crockett County March 25, 1835. He was Grand Worthy Patriarch of the order of Sons of Temperance, of Tennessee. He was a member of the Tennessee Senate at one time, and was at two different times a member of the House of Representatives. He has been a delegate to the Memphis annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South on several occasions, and was a delegate from that conference to the general conference held at Richmond, Va., in 1886. He is a lawyer of good practice, active in State, church, temperance and benevolent enterprises, and has accumulated a good competency and seems to enjoy life to the fullest extent. He seeks no official station, out of preference, as he is devoted to the pursuit he has so long followed.
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This family biography is one of 242 biographies included in The History of Gibson County, Tennessee published in 1887. The History of Gibson County was included within The History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley & Lake Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley, and Lake Counties of Tennessee
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