PARK, John G. 1870-1926

PARK, MCVEY

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 11/16/2003 at 12:28:16

“The Fairfield Journal"
Tuesday, July 27, 1926
Page 2, Column 3

JUDGE JOHN G. PARK IS DEAD.
Prominent Citizen of Kansas City, Born in Jefferson County, Passes Away.

Judge John G. PARK, who was born in Jefferson County 56 years ago, died Monday at Grand Rapids, Mich. Judge PARK was a son of Stephen PARK, whose father was Col. John G. PARK, who was a state senator in the early days of Iowa history. The family lived in Walnut township. Stephen PARK during the Civil War served with the late Alex. McCrackin as orderly for Capt. Wells.

The Kansas City "Star" gives the following in regard to Judge PARK’s death: John G. PARK, 56 years old, 5944 Blue Hills roads, former circuit judge and former city counselor, a member of the law firm of Williamson, Park & Brown, died today at Grand Rapids, Mich., on the way from his summer home at Pilgrim, Mich., to a sanitarium in Battle Creek.

Mrs. PARK and his brother, Alan PARK, were with him at the time of his death and are returning to Kansas City with the body, to arrive on a Santa Fe train at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning..... Judge PARK was born in Jefferson County, Iowa, Oct. 29, 1869. He was educated in the Iowa public schools, in the Burlington High School, and in the law department of the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar in Ann Arbor, Mich., in June 1893, and to the Missouri bar at Kansas City in Oct. 1893. He was elected circuit judge in 1904, and was married to Miss Kate McVEY, at Des Moines, Sept. 6, 1905. In 1910 he was president of the Kansas City Bar Association. Besides his widow, Mrs. Kate PARK, Mr. PARK leaves three children, John Mack PARK, 15 years old; Patricia PARK, 13, and Catherine PARK, 9.

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