Rev. John W. MCFARLAND Who recently died while engaged in missionary work in Alaska was a son of Samuel and Jane (VAN EMAN) MCFARLAND, and was born near Candor, in Raccoon Presbyterian Church, Washington Co., Pa., August 1848. He was a nephew of Rev. David MCFARLAND who was in mission work in New Mexico and Idaho, and whose widow Amanda MCFARLAND, was the first female missionary to enter Alaska; and he was a cousin of Rev. Samuel G. MCFARLAND, D. D., who for many years has been a missionary and educator in Siam. His wife, who survives him with one little daughter seven years old, was Miss Maggie DUNBAR of Steubenville, Ohio.