Introduction
Born: November 30, 1828, Yonkers, New York.
Died: June 3, 1897, at his home in Yonkers, New York.
Buried: Cedar Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Newburgh, New York.
Born: November 30, 1828, Yonkers, New York.
Died: June 3, 1897, at his home in Yonkers, New York.
Buried: Cedar Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Newburgh, New York.
Daniel was the son of Thomas MacFarlan, a financial agent for Peter Gerard Stuyvesant and Hamilton Fish, and husband of Mary Jane Merritt of Middle Hope, New York (married at the home of her parents in Newburgh, New York, November 20, 1850).
He worked as a clerk for his father, but left his father’s employ in 1853 to pursue ventures such as maple syrup refining and running a coal business.
He lived in New York City until 1860 when he moved with his wife and daughter, Helen Rutherfurd Stuyvesant MacFarlan, to Yonkers.
Later in life, he was a real estate broker (1884) and a traveling inspector for the Mutual Fire Insurance of Yonkers (1887).
McFarlan was also Secretary of the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church as of 1862, according to records of the Conference’s 73rd Session.
He was still in the Conference as of 1881. The 1891 Methodist Year Book stated he was in Yonkers, New York.
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