Kings-Santa Cruz County CA Archives Biographies.....Parrish, F.M. August 10, 1851 - 
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Author: History of Tulare and Kings Counties

This efficient city trustee of Hanford, Kings county, Cal., was born at Soquel, 
Santa Cruz county, Cal., September 10, 1856, a son of Joshua and Narcissa 
(Dell) Parrish, natives of Ohio. The father crossed the plains with mule teams 
in 1849, mined and later hauled freight to the mines till 1851, when he settled 
at Santa Cruz, Cal., and farmed land which is now within the boundaries of that 
city. After a time he rented land at Soquel, then took over a Spanish grant and 
for many years farmed the land involved in it. He died at Soquel in 1898, and 
his wife survived him till in May, 1911. Their children were all born and 
raised in Santa Cruz county. Mary, the wife of Charles Spreckelsen of Soquel, 
died in December, 1911. F. M. is the immediate subject of this notice. Winfield 
S. lives on a ranch four miles west of Hanford. Benjamin F. was next in order 
of birth. Anna is the wife of A. J. Wyman of Soquel.

On the second of November, 1878, F. M. Parrish moved from Santa Cruz county to 
Hanford. During his first year in Kings county he worked for wages. In the 
second year he put in a crop of wheat, five miles west of Hanford, and he has 
been ranching in the county ever since. For ten years he farmed a quarter-
section north of Hanford, raising wheat, alfalfa and grapes. In 1890 he sold 
his land and for a decade thereafter lived on a small place which he bought 
near Grangeville. He still owns the last mentioned homestead of eighty acres, 
which has twenty acres of peaches, thirty of grapes and thirty of alfalfa. The 
family have lived in Hanford since 1901.

At Hanford Mr. Parrish has proven himself to be a public-spirited citizen with 
the interest of the community at heart. In the spring of 1910 he was elected a 
city trustee for a four-year term. He had been previously for many years a 
school trustee at Grangeville. He affiliates with the Woodmen of the World, and 
is a director in the Hanford Savings Bank, the Last Chance Ditch Company and 
the Lone Oak Canal Company. In 1880 he married Miss Martha Robinson and they 
have four children: Maud is the wife of Royal L. Waltz of Armona; May married 
R. 0. Deacon of Lemoore ; Emma is Mrs. H. A. Thedieck of Fresno; Ada is a 
member of her parents' household, and is a student at the Southern California 
University.


Additional Comments:
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 540-541
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler


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