People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — A. J. McFARLAND. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A. J. McFARLAND.

TREASURER AND DIRECTOR PILOT PUB. CO. A. J. McFarland, lives on his farm in Jordan township, 10 miles south-west of Rensselaer. Mr. McFarland has been one of Jasper county’s progressive teachers, remaining in the work until within the last two years. He served a term as trustee of his township, was one year an associate editor of the Pilot and ran on the poputist ticket for clerk in '94. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. This gentleman is a man who forms his own opinions, after careful study and investigation, as in his political views, and when once formed, he is noted for staying with them. McFarland is a hard working man, a reader that keeps up with the times, an obliging neighbor and a useful citizen. He w as at one time a member of the Republican County Central Committee,

Mr. McFarland was born in Whitley county, Kentucky, in 1852; moved to Indiana with his parents in 1862 and settled in Park county. Lived on a farm there until 1883, (excepting one year in lowa and one in Kansas,) when he moved to Jasper county and settled in Jordau township. Has taught school for fourteen years. His own schooling wasTiad at Central Normal senool, Danville, and at Wabash college. Was married in 1881 to Miss Mary A. Hendrix of Park county, and they now have two exemplary children, James Gaylord, seven, and Jean Edna, thirteen years old. Mr. land was perhaps the first to propose the starting'of the’People's Pilot, and he begins the New Year as an associate in the conduct of this p&per, moving his family to Rensselaer for that purpose.

With a more settled condition of financial affairs we think will come two more railroads across the county. One through the center and one angling across the north erid.

Our county does not have as good gristmill accomodations as is desired, but three in the county; two in Rensselaer aud one in Remington. What we have are up to date and do as good work as the best.

We have in this county thirteen townships, ninty-nine district schools and nineteen voting precincts.

WILLIAM WASHBURN.