WILLIAM T. PARK

PARK

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 14:14:24

WILLIAM T. PARK, one of the intelligent and enterprising farmers of section 27, Grant township, came to Iowa in 1884. He was born at Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, October 25, 1858, a son
of John and Mary (Marquis) Park. The father was born in Ohio, of Scotch parents, and the mother in Pennsylvania, of Scotch parents. The parents were married in Logan county, Ohio, and reared a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters, of whom our subject was the seventh child. An older brother, Madison, served in the late war, in an Ohio regiment. The father, a farmer all his life, died in 1884, at the age of seventy-six years; he was a Democrat in his political views. His widow now lives in Logan county, Ohio, at the age of seventy-seven
years.

William T., our subject, was ten years of age when he went to McLean county, Illinois, where he was reared to farm life and educated in the public schools. In 1875 he removed to Mercer county, same State, remaining four years; then he returned to McLean county, after which he came to Iowa. He bought his present farm of D. R. Irvin, which consists of 120 acres of well improved land, and on which is a good frame house, 16 x 20 feet, one and a half stories
high, situated on a natural building site. He has also good stables, yards, cribs, sheds, a good tenant house, and all the necessary farm improvements. He is a member of the firm of W. T. Park & Co., owners of a Percheron horse, which was imported by L. Banks Wilson, in February, 1888.

Mr. Park was married in Mercer county, Illinois, January 1, 1880, to Miss Belle Henderson, who was born and reared in that county, a daughter of William and Rose Ann (Dool) Henderson, of Scotch-Irish descent. Mr. and Mrs. Park have four children: Laura Jennie, John Henderson, Helen M., and Mary Ann. Mr. Park is Democrat in his political views, and religiously both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church at Lenox. Mr. Park is yet in the prime of life, and is an enterprising and successful agriculturist.