Franklin Parker

PARKER

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Date: 11/8/2022 at 16:35:11

Franklin Parker

Franklin Parker, ex-superintendent of school's, which office he filled satisfactorily for two terms, settled in Union township in 1864. He has a fine farm of 240 acres on section 18. He bought unimproved land and built a log house. His present residence is a commodious frame house, with all essential buildings, a fine artificial grove, and an orchard of 700 bearing apple trees, with all small fruits. He is a busy farmer. He was born in Farmington, Franklin Co., Maine, July 7, 1830. He received an academic education at Farmington. When twenty-one years of age he resolved to go west. His father gave him thirty-six dollars, telling him to go west as far as that would carry him. He arrived in Watertown, Wis., with ten cents. He received a situation in the public schools of that city, which he retained two years. He then learned photography and traveled in Wisconsin as photographer five years. He married Jane Moore, a native of Ohio, in January, 1856. He then rented land in Columbus and engaged in farming until coming to his present home. Mr. Parker has been prominent in both county and town affairs, having filled various offices of trust. They have one son who is a teacher in the public school and resides at home. One son, deceased, born February, 1859, died at Osage in 1876, while attending the Cedar Valley Seminary. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.877