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Walter McFarland

Army Officer/Civil Engineer

Centurion, 1886–1888

Born 26 May 1836 in Monmouth County, New Jersey

Died 22 July 1888 in New London, Connecticut

Buried Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut

Proposed by James K. Ford and Peter S. Michie

Elected 6 March 1886 at age forty-nine

Century Memorial

Col. McFarland received and merited the high esteem of his countrymen for his services as a soldier and his professional skill as an engineer in charge of government works.

Henry E. Howland
1889 Century Association Reports