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Finding Aid to the George Bradley McFarland Family Papers, circa 1862-1964, bulk 1880-1951
BANC MSS 2007/104
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Collection Title: George Bradley McFarland family papers
Date (inclusive): circa 1862-1964,
Date (bulk): bulk 1880-1951
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2007/104
Creators :
McFarland, George Bradley, 1866-1942
McFarland, Bertha Blount
McFarland, Bertha Blount
Extent:
Number of containers: 7 boxes and 2 volumes
Linear feet: 3.25
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Contains correspondence, notebooks, scrapbooks, writings, photographs, and books relating to missionaries in Siam (now Thailand)
and Cambodia. Photographs include pictures of life in Thailand and Cambodia, including Angkor Wat; of the royal family, including
the coronations of King Vajiravudh and King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the funeral of King Chulalongkorn; and of missions in Thailand.
Also includes the American Civil War diary of James Gooding Blount.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English, Thai and Cambodian
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head
of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94270-6000.
Consent is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], George Bradley McFarland Family Papers, BANC MSS 2007/104, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Additional Notes on Collection:
Collection transferred from the South/Southeast Asian Library in 2003.
Photographs of the Blount family in the United States, relatives of Bertha Blount McFarland, have been transferred to the
Pictorial Collection of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2007.015--PIC). Other photographs have been retained in the McFarland
papers.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
McFarland, George Bradley, 1866-1942--Archives
McFarland, Bertha Blount--Archives
Vajiravudh, King of Siam, 1881-1925--Coronation
Vajiravudh, King of Siam, 1881-1925--Pictorial works
Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand, 1927--Pictorial works
Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand, 1927--Coronation
Chulalongkorn, King of Siam, 1853-1910--Pictorial works
Chulalongkorn, King of Siam, 1853-1910--Death and burial
Blount, James Gooding, 1843-1862--Diaries
Angkor Wat (Angkor)--Pictorial works
Missionaries--Thailand
Missionaries--Thailand--Pictorial works
Thailand--History--19th century
Thailand--Pictorial works
Cambodia--Pictorial works
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
Photographs
The George Bradley McFarland family papers, were given to the South/Southeast Asia Library by Bertha Blount Hallquist, niece
of Bertha Blount McFarland, in 1976. The collection was transferred to The Bancroft Library in 2003.
No additions are expected.
Processed by Alison E. Bridger in 2007.
George Bradley McFarland was born in 1866 to Rev. Samuel Gamble McFarland and Jane Hays McFarland while they were serving
as missionaries in Siam (now Thailand). Except for a few years spent in the United States to obtain medical and dental degrees,
George McFarland lived most of his life in Siam. After his first wife Mary Root McFarland died in 1923, he married missionary
Bertha Blount in 1925.
The McFarland family contributed many things to their adopted land of Siam. Samuel Gamble McFarland not only worked as a missionary
but also published one of the first Siamese-English dictionaries, which his son George revised after his father's death.
Jane Hays McFarland ran one of the first schools for girls in Thailand and later had a school named in her honor. William
Hays McFarland, George's brother, served as Siam's Ministry of War and introduced Western military methods to Siam. Edwin
McFarland, another brother, also served in the Siamese government and developed the first Siamese typewriter. George McFarland
not only expanded on the work of his parents and siblings after their deaths, but also taught at the Royal Medical College
and translated many medical texts into Siamese.
George McFarland died in 1942. At some point his wife Bertha returned to the United States, where she continued contact with
the Missions in Thailand.
-McFarland, George B.
Reminiscences of Twelve Decades of Service to Siam 1860-1936. [Bangkok]: Bangkok Times Press, 1936.
Arranged to the folder level.
Scope and Content of Collection
The George Bradley McFarland Family Papers contain correspondence, notebooks, scrapbooks, writings, photographs, and books
relating to missionaries in Siam (now Thailand) and Cambodia. Photographs include pictures of life in Thailand and Cambodia,
including Angkor Wat; of the royal family, including the coronations of King Vajiravudh and King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the
funeral of King Chulalongkorn; and of missions in Thailand. Also includes the American Civil War diary of James Gooding Blount.