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Findagrave Member Robert Fahey (#47289555)----
From the 1911 book Past and Present of Hardin County Iowa, pp. 1031-1032:
William Parrish
Of the farmers of Union township, Hardin county, one of the most capable and most representative is William Parrish, who has led an industrious and hard-working life, is one of the solid and substantial men of his community, and who owns an excellent farm which is cultivated in the most up-to-date manner and yields him abundant returns for his labor bestowed upon it.
William Parrish was born in Grundy county, Iowa, June 20, 1864, on the old Parrish homestead. His father, Barrett Smith...
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Findagrave Member Robert Fahey (#47289555)----
From the 1911 book Past and Present of Hardin County Iowa, pp. 1031-1032:
William Parrish
Of the farmers of Union township, Hardin county, one of the most capable and most representative is William Parrish, who has led an industrious and hard-working life, is one of the solid and substantial men of his community, and who owns an excellent farm which is cultivated in the most up-to-date manner and yields him abundant returns for his labor bestowed upon it.
William Parrish was born in Grundy county, Iowa, June 20, 1864, on the old Parrish homestead. His father, Barrett Smith Parrish, was born in Ohio in 1821 and came to Indiana with his future father-in-law, William Martin, and married there Martha J. Martin, who was, like himself, a native of Ohio. He came to Grundy county, Iowa, in 1856, and lived there until the spring of 1902, when he moved from Grundy county to Whitten, Iowa, where he died on March 13, 1905, and where his widow now lives. For several years he was connected in the lumber business with T. N. Hauser at Union, Iowa. The most of his time was spent on his farm, in the work of which he took great pride, and his crops were always well cultivated and his farm well kept. He was an extensive stock raiser. Barrett S. Parrish was a member of the Christian church, and lived a life in consistence with its teachings. He was especially opposed to the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Fraternally, he was a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Odd Fellows. His family consisted of three children: May, who married A. A. Allen; William, and Ethel R., who married T. E. Lockard, of Marshalltown, Iowa.
William Parrish received his education in the district schools and began farming on rented land. In 1900 he located on section 12, Union township, Hardin county, on a one hundred and sixty acre farm, which was unimproved. He has erected a large and comfortable home, and has put up other buildings and improved the land.
Mr. Parrish has been three times married, the first time in 1874 to Minnie Nelson, of Grundy county, who bore to him one child, Earl W., now at home, aged twenty-two, who married Grace Sisson. Mr. Parrish was next married in September, 1897, to Mrs. Cora Hutchinson Zufall, who was the mother of one child, Ethel may, and who died on March 14, 1905. In the fall of 1905 Mr. Parrish was married to Mrs. Fannie Long Baker, of Hardin county.
William Parrish is widely known in his township, and because of his companionable and sociable nature has many friends, who esteem hime for his true worth. In politics he is a Democrat and takes a becoming activity in the governmental affairs of his locality.
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