Parker, J. F.

PARKER

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/23/2008 at 16:14:51

J. F. Parker

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.218, Pleasant Twp.)
J. F. Parker, farmer, P. O. Shelby, was born in Vermont September 27, 1837, son of Abel and Fanny (Farnsworth) Parker; he, a farmer and mason, born in New England October 6, 1790, died in Lake County, Ill., March, 1857, she also died in Lake County, Ill. They had a family of five boys and two girls. Subject is self-educated, commenced life as a carpenter and married in Newton, Jasper County, this State, September 18, 1862, Nellie Bettise, born December 22, 1842, in Detroit, Mich., daughter of John and Malizann (Cook) Bettise, he born in New England October 5, 1798, she in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., February 7, 1804. Mr. and Mrs. Parker have two children, viz., Almer A. Clifton and Blanche M. Edith. Subject is a carpenter as well as farmer; has been Township School Treasurer and held other offices, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a Republican, a member of the Grange; and came from Jasper County to this township (Pleasant) in 1874; bought eighty acres of wild land for $8 per acre, built a one and one-half story frame house on it 14 x 22 feet, with a kitchen 14 x 22 feet, costing in all $800, besides other buildings, all built by himself. Mrs. Parker's father went through the war of 1812 with Capt. Tanner.