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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
COMMEMORATIVE
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
of the Counties of
HARRISON AND CARROLL, OHIO
Containing
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, and of Many of the Early
Settled Families.
ILLUSTRATED
Publ.
CHICAGO:
J. H. Beers & Co.
1891
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ROBERT
PARKER, a prosperous farmer of Monroe Township, Carroll Co., Ohio,
was born in County Cavan, Ireland, in June, 1807. His father was
James, a son of James, whose children were Andrew,
James, Alexander and Sarah. James, father of
Robert, grew to manhood in Ireland and married Miss Isabelle
Wilson, and to them were born Alexander, a resident of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio; Robert; John, a resident of Leesville, Ohio;
Andrew, deceased; James, a resident of Harrison County, Ohio;
Joseph, a resident of Iowa; Wilson, a railroad man of Chicago,
Ill.; Letta, deceased; Martha J. Simpson, of Harrison County:
Margaret Gilmore, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and William,
deceased. In 1829 Mr. Parker came to the United States,
and landed at Baltimore, Md.; from Baltimore he made his way by stage coach
to Pittsburgh, Penn.: from Pittsburgh he took a boat to Steubenville.
Ohio, and from Steubenville he went to Leesville, Ohio, near which place he
purchased a nice farm, on which he resided till his death in 1839. His
widow died in 1881.
Robert Parker grew to manhood in his
native country, and married Miss Sarah McCauley, who was born in
1811. To this union have been born Elizabeth Palmer, who
resides in Orange Township, Carroll County; Ann J. Marshall, in
Carroll County; Mary Smith, in Leesville, Ohio; Matilda
Booth, in Harrison Township, Carroll County; Wilson, Martha
Wilson, and Joseph, at home, and Nancy Gould, at Dell Roy,
Carroll County. Mr. Parker came to Ohio in 1829, and
entered eighty acres of land in Monroe Township, Carroll County, where he
erected a log cabin, and where he resided for five years, when he sold and
purchased eighty acres near where he now resides, on which he erected the
second cabin, and resided there till 1842, when he purchased the farm he now
owns, which contains over 200 acres, on which he has erected fine buildings.
Politically he is a Republican.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Records of the counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated -
Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co. - 1891 - Page 842 |
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