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Asylum. For the succeeding seven years
he was engaged in private practice in
Waterbury, Connecticut, leaving there in
1897 to form a partnership with Dr. Frank
Haslehurst Barnes, with whom he conducted
a sanitarium in Stamford, Con-
necticut, for a year. This partnership
was then dissolved, and Dr. McFarland
opened his present Sanitarium which accommodates
one hundred patients. He
has a farm also and all the vegetables
consumed are raised on this farm. A force
of thirty people is required.
Dr. McFarland is a member of the
Norwalk Medical Association, the Fairfield
County Medical Society, the Connecticut
Society, and the American Medical
Association. He is also a member
of the Society of Medical Jurisprudence,
and for some years he has been doing
work as an alienist; he is a member of
the Connecticut Society of Alienists and
served as president of this organization
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for three years. His fraternal connections
are: Member of Temple Lodge,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Nosohogan
Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows ; Comstock Lodge, Knights
of Pythias; Westport Club; the National
Democratic Club of New York City, a so-
cial organization. Dr. McFarland is a Re-
publican, and although his time is valuable
he is very willing to aid in whatever
way possible any movement for the gen-
eral welfare.
Dr. McFarland married Marie Berg, a
native of Hadersleben, Denmark, and they
are the parents of a daughter, Ruth, who
is the wife of George W. Dilworth, con-
nected with the Sanitarium.
MONTGOMERY, Le Roy,
Financier, Manufacturer.
As secretary and treasurer of the People's
Trust Company, Mr. Montgomery
requires no introduction to his neighbors
of South Norwalk, or his fellow-citizens
of Fairfield county. He is known not
only as an experienced financier, but also
as a man who takes a quietly public-spirited
interest in the affairs of his commu-
nity.
The name Montgomery signifies "Hill
of Gomerico," and the family is an extremely
ancient one. Roger de Montgomerie
(de Monte Gomerico), so called
on account of his Norman estate, was a
native of Neustria, and was seated there
before the coming of Rollo in 912.
William Montgomery came to East Jersey
in 1702, thus founding the American
portion of the family, branches of which
are scattered through Pennsylvania, Virginia
and Kentucky. The race is numerous
in Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
James W. Montgomery, grandfather of
Le Roy Montgomery, was born in Port-
land, Maine, and at an early age began to
follow the sea. He became a sea captain
while still a young man, owning the bark
"Statira," and making deep-sea as well as
coast-wise voyages. In the gold rush of
'49 he went to California. He had brothers,
Rev. George W., John A., and Thomas
J., a general in the Mexican War,
who married a Virginian. Captain James
W. Montgomery married Deborah Ann
Hicks, of Long Island, the seat of a numerous
branch of this old English fam-
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ily, which may also be found well represented
in New England. Captain Montgomery
never returned from California,
his death occurring in the town of Mur-
phy, Calaveras county, in 1859.
William E. Montgomery, son of James
W. and Deborah Ann (Hicks) Montgomery,
was born in New York City and edu-
cated in local public schools. From the
time he was eighteen he made Norwalk
his home, where, at an early age, he engaged
in the retail coal business on his
own account, his place of business being