Born in White Hall, Illinois, McFarland attended White Hall High School and Illinois College. He had a brother, Monte McFarland, who also played major-league baseball.\n', '

In McFarland\'s first major-league season (1902), he made only two appearances for the Cardinals. Between 1903 and 1905, McFarland came close to 20-loss seasons each year; he finished 9-19, 14-18, and 8-18, despite ERAs of 3.07, 3.21 and 3.81. McFarland\'s last major-league season was 1906, and he played for three teams - the Cardinals, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Brooklyn Superbas. He made appearances in the minor leagues through 1909.\n', '

After McFarland\'s baseball career, he opened the first vaudeville theater in Houston and then worked for Interstate Amusement in Fort Worth. He came back to Houston and managed three movie theaters in that city for Southern Enterprises, Inc. McFarland was part of a group that nearly bought the minor-league Houston Buffaloes in 1908, but the deal was never finalized. As a theater manager in Houston, McFarland sometimes irritated the Houston Board of Censors; he continued to show Fatty Arbuckle films after the filmmaker became embroiled in controversy, and he showed the film Don\'t Call It Love despite a controversial kiss.\n', '

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