ANDERSON D. PARK, M.D.  While one of the busiest physicians at Rockport, where he began practice after graduating in medicine twenty years ago, Doctor Park is perhaps even better known for his active leadership in business affairs.  He has been president of the Rockport Deposit Bank from its establishment, has several other active business interests, and at the same time has been deeply concerned with movements representing the civic enterprise of his locality.
     Doctor Park was born at Olaton in Ohio County, Kentucky, Jan,. 31, 1875.  The Park Family is of Scotch ancestry.  From Scotland they first moved to Nova Scotia, but established a home in Pennsylvania in the Colonial period of history.  Doctor Park's grandfather was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his life there on a farm.  He lived for a few years at Dayton, Ohio, and late in life came to Ohio County, Kentucky, and died near Olaton in 1861.  He married a Miss Fitzgerald, a native of Maryland, who also died in Ohio county.
     Jesse B. Park, father of Doctor Park, was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1826, and was about fourteen years of age when the father moved to Ohio County, Kentucky, in 1840.  He became a farmer near Olaton, and when the Civil war came on he espoused the Union cause and enlisted in Company , of the Seventeenth Kentucky Infantry.  He was in service about a year participating in the battle of Shiloh.  He always voted as a republican and was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Jesse B. Park who died near Olaton in 1879, married Mrs. (Iler) Daniel, who was born near Rosine in Ohio County in 1832 and died at Hartford, this state, in 1911.  They were the parents of five children: Joseph, a farmer near Horse Branch, Ohio County; James F., a rural mail carrier living at Hartford; Janie, wife of Lee Mason, a merchant at Rockport; Fannie, who died at Olaton in 1894, wife of Henry Felix, now a farmer at Olaton; and Anderson D.
     Anderson D. Park was four yeas old when his father died, but he grew up in the country district of Ohio County and had his first advantages in the rural schools there.  In intervals of other employment he acquired a liberal education both in general subjects in medicine.  He attended Hartford College at Hartford, Kentucky, and in 1897 received the Bachelor of Science degree from the West Kentucky College at South Carrollton.  For two years he was a student in the Hospital College of Medicine at Memphis, and completed his course with one year in the Hospital College of Louisville, where he graduated in 1901.  Doctor Park at once began practice at Rockport, and his work has identified him with this community continuously except for six months during 1905-06, when he had his office in Hartford.  His professional offices are in the Rockport Deposit Bank Building.
~ Source: History of Kentucky, Judge Charles Kerr, Editor by William Elsey Connelley & E. M. Coulter in Five Volumes - Vol. V - Publ. by The American Historical Society, Chicago & New York - 1922  - Page 637