Neil McFarlane Collection, 1896, 1956
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Abstract
Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) mentioning McFarlane's uncle, Henry C. Lyon, foreman and
manager of Rand and Brown Farm (1881-1882), John Elliot who followed Lyon as foreman, a description
of Rand and Brown Farm's location, General Thomas M. Walker, a Civil War veteran from Erie, Penn.,
who managed the Rand and Brown Farm and later bought his own farm, a brief mention of his wife
Agnes Coughey Walker, a description of the Rand and Brown Farm buildings including the grain
elevators, and typed copies of Moorhead daily news clippings from 1896 about the railroad accident of
Frank Coughey; Coughey, foreman at Walker's farm, died in the winter of 1896-1897 and was buried on
General Walker's farm.