Riverside
County
Biographies
CHAUNCEY L. McFARLAND
For more than three and a half
decades C. L. McFarland has been a legal practitioner in Riverside and while
attaining success and prominence in his profession he has also performed civic
service of value. In all but the
“accident of birth” he is a real Californian.
He was born in Galesburg, Illinois, September 22, 1872; a son of John
McFarland, now deceased, and is of Scotch descent but traces his lineage in
America to the days of the Revolutionary War.
In 1882, when a lad of ten years, C.
L. McFarland came with his parents to Riverside and here pursued his education
until his graduation from high school.
In preparation for the vocation of his choice, he matriculated in the
University of California, which he attended for four years, and was admitted to
the bar in Los Angeles in 1897.
Immediately afterward he established an office in Riverside and here he
has followed his profession continuously for thirty-six years. He has devoted much time, thought and study
to the preparation of his cases and the court records bear proof of his ability
as an attorney, showing that he has successfully handled much important
litigation.
Mr. McFarland married Jean
Henderson, a daughter of Robert Henderson of Riverside, and they have three
children, Jean, Mary and Ruth. A strong
Republican, Mr. McFarland was a delegate to both county and state conventions
of the party prior to the direct primary, and at one time was chairman of the
county central committee. For seven
years he served on the Riverside board of trustees and was its last
chairman. Mr. McFarland was a member of
the commission which prepared the first charter of the city. He was also one of the original members of
the state code commission. Long active
in behalf of the Riverside Public Library, he was one of its directors for
nineteen years and has likewise served as president of the board. His public spirit has been expressed in
actual achievements for the general good and his influence upon the life of his
city has been of the highest order.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 385-386, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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