L. Wayland Macfarlane photograph collection, circa 1870s-1950s

Lloyd Wayland Macfarlane was born on September 7, 1914 in Cedar City, Utah, to Dr. Menzies John and Katharine Palmer Macfarlane. Macfarlane attended the Branch Agricultural College (now Southern Utah University, SUU). He then attended the University of Utah, where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Lloyd Macfarlane then attended the Cornell University College of Medicine in New York City, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha. He served his internship and residency in St. Louis. After completing his medical training, Dr. Macfarlane served in the Army Medical Corps. After World War II, he returned to Utah, settling in Salt Lake City and practicing at Holy Cross Hospital. Additionally, he taught at the University of Utah College of Medicine.

On August 24, 1940, Macfarlane married Dorothy Smith of Cedar City, Utah; together, the couple had two daughters. In addition to his work in medicine, in 1980 Macfarlane published Yours Sincerely, John M. Macfarlane, an account of his grandfather John Menzies Macfarlane, a Scottish-born member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who migrated to Utah Territory in the 1850s. In 1985, Macfarlane published Dr. Mac: The Man, His Land, and His People, a history fo his father, Dr. Menzies John Macfarlane, and his life and medical practice in Cedar City, Utah. Lloyd Wayland Macfarlane died on October 28, 1997.