SHEROW W. PARKER, an active and enterprising farmer, and the
present justice of the peace of Madison Township, residing on section 15, was
born in Harrison County, Ohio, April 22, 1840, his father, Richard Parker, who
is now deceased, being a native of the same county, and a carpenter and farmer
by occupation. Sherow W. Parker attended
the common schools of his native county, where he received a fair education. He
was reared to agricultural pursuits, which he has made his life’s work, and by
his persevering, industry and good management he has met with success. He was a soldier in the late war, enlisting
in Company C, Fifty-second Ohio Infantry, and during his term of service he was
sick at Jeffersonville, Indiana, for five months. He participated in a number
of engagements, among which were, Perryville, Kentucky, Chickamauga, Buzzard’s
Roost, Rome, Georgia, and Kenesaw Mountain.
Mr. Parker was married March 20, 1866, to Miss Lizette Crew, a daughter
of the late James Crew. Twelve children have been born to them – Katie,
Sherman, Charles, Richard, Franklin, Homer, Alburtus, John, Lizetta M., Josiah,
George and one deceased. Mr. Parker
located in Fulton County, Illinois, in the fall of 1865, living near Canton
till the fall of 1869. He then came to Clarke County, Iowa, and the following
spring settled on the farm where he has since been engaged in farming and
stock-raising, his farm containing 156 acres of choice land. Mr. Parker has
held several offices of trust since locating in Madison Township, serving as
township clerk, road supervisor, assessor and justice of the peace, and for
eight or ten years has been clerk of the School Board. He is a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke
County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 p. 285-6
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