Biography of William H. Parker - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 97

William H. Parker, a young and deservedly popular physician, of
Cleveland, was born in Delaware County, Iowa, October 23, 1858. He was
educated in a high school at Earlville, at the Methodist Seminary at
Epsworth, and from there to the Iowa State University, at Iowa City,
where he completed his literary education. He then entered the medical
department of the State University, where he graduated in medicine
March, 1882. He at once proceeded to Dodge Centre, Minn., where he
began his practice in partnership with the oldest physician of that
place. In April, 1885, he came to Arkansas and located at Cleveland,
in this county, where he has now established a most extensive and
profitable practice, amounting to over $3500 per year. He is a member
of the Masonic fraternity and was the first Master of Cleveland Lodge,
No. 473. Politically the doctor is a staunch adherent to the
principles of the Democratic party. He is an active and enterprising
citizen, readily joining in all enterprises of a laudable character.
Dr. Parker was united in marriage to Miss Ida M. Rundell, on March 17,
1880. She is a native of New York. To this union has been born two
children, named Gretchen L. and Carroll P.