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OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES:
Source:
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL
RECORD ALBUM
of
VERMILION COUNTY, ILLINOIS
containing
Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of
Prominent
and Representative Citizens of the County.
together with
Portraits and Biographies of all the Governors of the
State, and
of the Presidents of the United States
Publ: Chicago
Chapman Brothers.
1889
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JOHN
H. PARRISH has for twenty years or more been one of the
leading men of Sidell Township. As a farmer he is skillful
and successful, has a comfortable and beautiful home, and is
genial and hospitable in his manner, gaining the good will of
all with whom he comes in contact. He is considerable of a
politician, and in 1879 was elected Highway Commissioner for a
term of three yeas. He was re-elected in 1885, and served
another term. Prior of his assuming the duties of this
office the Commissioners had contracted for a large amount of
road grading, and unwisely involved the township in debt to the
amount of $4,000. By careful management on the part of
Mr. Parrish this sum has been greatly reduced, so that the
township finances are placed upon a sound basis.
Our subject was born May 7, 1839, in Coshocton County,
Ohio. There his early life was spent, and as his brother
had left the parental roof when about sixteen years old, John
naturally assumed the principal charge of the homestead.
To this he brought a bride in 1864, being married that year to
Miss Elizabeth Donnelly. This lady was a native of
his own county - in fact they had grown up together from
childhood. They resided in Ohio until after the birth of
two children, coming to this county in 1868. In the
meantime the brother, Joseph Parrish, had become owner of
a large farm, a part of which our subject rented, and upon which
he operated with success. He, however, with many others at
the time suffered greatly from ague, a disease common among the
early settlers, before the land had been sufficiently cultivated
to do away with miasma.
The first purchase of our subject in this county was
eighty acres, the nucleus of his present homestead, and to which
he added until he had 200 acres. He put up a fine dwelling
in 1888, and has brought his land to a good state of
cultivation. To him and his estimable wife there were born
nine interesting children, the eldest of whom, a daughter,
Giula, is the wife of Joseph Thompson, of Sidell
Township; Melvin P. remains at the homestead; Charles
died when eighteen months old; Horace C., Allie
Grace, and Harley are at home. Belle
died at the age of eighteen months, and Grover C. died
when an infant. Mr. Parrish votes with the
Democracy, and is quite prominent in local politics, frequently
serving as a delegate to the county conventions. He has
also served on the Circuit, Petit, and Grand Juries, and has
officiated as School Director for a period of fifteen years.
James and Lania (Hardman) Parrish, the parents
of our subject, were natives respectively of Belmont and Coschocton
counties, Ohio. The Parrishes were originally from
Pennsylvania, in which State the mother's family also flourished
quite numerously at an early day. The parents were married
in Kosciusko County, where the father successfully pursued his
trade of carpenter and joiner, and lived to be seventy-two years
old. The mother died when our subject was a lad of seven,
leaving besides himself, an older brother, Joseph, and a
sister younger, Hannah, and Mrs. W. B. Shane, who
lives in Smithfield, Ohio.
Source: Portrait and
Biographical Album of Vermilion County, Illinois - Published: Chicago:
Chapman Brothers
- 1889 - Page 261 |
"Prairie View "Farm - Residence
of Wm. H. Price,
Sec. 10 (T.20-R13)
Pilot Township |
WILLIAM
H. PRICE, the son of an early settler of Vermilion
County, may also be denominated as one of its pioneers, as he
had a hand in developing its great agricultural resources and
assisted in laying the foundations of its wealth and high
standing among its sister counties. He is to-day one of
the foremost farmers and stock raisers of Pilot Township, and is
a man of considerable importance in the public life of this
community. He has a large farm of over 700 acres of
well-improved land, comprising sections 8, 9 and 10, whose broad
fields are under high cultivation, and which is amply supplied
with roomy, conveniently arranged, well made buildings, and all
the appliances for facilitating farm work, while everything
about the place betokens order and superior management.
Mr. Price was born in Pike County, Ohio, July 4,
1827. His father, Robert Price, was a native of
Lexington, Ky., born of pioneer parents July 29, 1788. The
grandparents were from Wales and England. They removed to
Pike County, Ohio when the father of our subject was a lad of
nine years, and there he grew to maturity and married Miss
Nancy Howard, a native of Ohio. Her parents came from
England to that part of the country in the early days of its
settlement. She was born Feb. 27, 1793 and died in middle
life, Dec. 22, 1842, some years after the removal of the family
to this county, which occurred in 1830. She and her
husband were early pioneers of this section of the country.
The father died Jan. 6, 1850, in Vermilion County, Ill.
They were the parents of four children, of whom our subject is
the only survivor. The others were Lloyd H., Drusilla,
and Jerusha. Lloyd married Minerva Howard,
of Pike County, Ohio, whose parents came to Vermilion County in
an early day, and to them (Lloyd and wife) were born nine
children, namely: William, Robert, Thomas, Sarah,
Nancy, Frank, Lloyd, May, and George. Drusilla
was the wife of Joseph Dalay, of Vermilion County, now
deceased, and they left one child, Nancy, who became the
wife of David Claypole, a farmer, and they have five
children. Jerusha married Franklin Adams, of
Vermilion County, now deceased, and they have three children -
John L., William, and Samuel.
When our subject was brought to this county, a
child of three years, it was a wild waste of prairie, and the
settlers at that time thought that the land away from the
streams where the timber grew was worthless for settlement, so
they confined themselves to the banks of the creeks and rivers.
He grew to a strong manhood in the pioneer life that obtained at
that day, and early became independent and self-supporting.
Having determined to make farming his life work, he entered 200
acres of prairie land from the Government, as his keen
discernment foresaw the worth of the rich and fertile soil to
the intelligent and enterprising young farmer. After his
marriage in 1850, he erected a house and commenced the task of
upbuilding his present desirable home. He is still living
on the land that he purchased from the Government, and has added
more to it as his means have allowed till he owns one of the
largest farms in the neighhood, comprising, as before
mentioned over 700 acres of choice land. He has besides
helped to establish his children in life by giving them land.
He does a general farming business, raising all kinds of stock,
making a speciality of breeding Short-horn cattle, of
which he has a herd of sixteen thoroughbreds, besides all other
kinds of stock usually found on a model farm.
Mr. Price and Mary A. Cazatt were united
in marriage in 1850. She was born in Mercer County, Ky.,
July 4, 1833, to Henry and Susan (Gritten) Cazatt, native
of the same county, her father was born about 1808 and her
mother Dec. 1, 1810. Mrs. Prices's
grandparents were Irish and Dutch. They were pioneers of
Vermilion County, coming herein 1837, and here they spent their
remaining years, the father dying in 1841, and the mother in
1878, aged sixty-three years. Mrs. Price has
one own sister—Minerva J., who married Otho Allison,
a resident of this county. The union of our subject and
his wife has been blessed to them by the birth of six children—Jerusha
J., Lloyd H., Emily
M., Charles R., Alice N., Emma B., the
latter is deceased. Jerusha married Henry J.
Helmick, a fanner of this county, and they have two children
—Charles and William E. Lloyd H., a farmer,
married Mary J. Snyder, of this county. Emily
married Guy C. Howard, a merchant in Armstrong,
this county. Charles R., a farmer, married Delia
Hatfield, of this county, and they have one child —
Everett Lloyd. Alice married Berry
Duncan, a farmer of this county, and they have one child,
Lola.
Source: Portrait and
Biographical Album of Vermilion County, Illinois -
Published: Chicago: Chapman Brothers - 1889 - Page 317 |
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