Olive MacFarland

Olive Knowles MacFarland (née Hornbrook; 1872–1962) was an American artist and illustrator. She attended Ohio Wesleyan College and earned degrees in physiology at Stanford University. She created watercolor drawings to illustrate the scientific publications of her husband, American malacologist Frank Mace MacFarland, and prepared his notes on opisthobranch mollusks for publication after his death.

Biography Olive Knowles Hornbrook was born in West Virginia in June 1872. She was educated in Cambridge, Ohio. After earning a B.L. from Ohio Wesleyan College in 1893, she taught Latin at the Barnesville, Ohio, High School from 1893 to 1898. On August 27, 1902, Hornbrook married Professor Frank Mace MacFarland of Stanford University. She studied physiology at Stanford, earning her B.A. in 1906 and her M.A. in 1908.

MacFarland died in 1962 in San Mateo, California.