Biography of Eugene Parrish, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 164

Eugene Parrish, of the law firm of Crowley & Parrish, was born in Dover, Stewart
County, Tenn., and is the son of Abraham P. and Mary M. (Ingram) Parrish, natives
respectively of Virginia and Tennessee. Abraham P. Parrish emigrated to Tennessee
when quite small, grew to manhood in that State, and there received a liberal
education. For many years before the war he ran a furnace at Dover, Tenn., but during
that eventful period he was financially crippled and retired to a farm in Humphreys
County, on the banks of the Tennessee River, where he is residing at the present
time. He is now in his seventy-second year. The mother died when Eugene Parrish was
quite young. Of the children born to this marriage, two are now living: Charles and
Eugene. After the death of his first wife Mr. Parrish, was married again and became
the father of three children: Lamar, Walter L. and Daisy. Grandfather Parrish was a
soldier in the Revolutionary War, and died in Virginia. Eugene Parrish was
principally reared in Tennessee, and received his education at West Kentucky College
and at the University of Ohio, obtaining the means to prosecute his studies by
teaching school between terms until he completed his education. He was admitted to
the bar at Jonesboro in 1884, located at Wittsburg, Cross County, and there remained
until June, 1885, when he settled at Paragould. Ark. He was associated with J. D.
Block, present prosecuting attorney at Wittsburg, and, on coming to Paragould, he
formed a partnership with B. H. Crowley, the present senator of the First district,
and a very noted and prominent man. This law firm has one of the finest libraries in
Northeast Arkansas, and both members are men of ability. Mr. Parrish is a self-made,
self-educated man, and is well fitted for the profession he has chosen.