Los Angeles-Ventura County CA Archives Biographies.....Parrish, William F. 1873 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    WILLIAM F. PARRISH is a native of Pocohontas County, Iowa, born near
Pomeroy, February 1st, 1873. He is the son of Isaac E. Parrish, a carpenter, a
native of Kentucky. His mother was Helen Phipps, a native of New York. The
family came to California in October, 1887. Mr. Parrish is an expert
horse-shoer, one of the best on the Coast, and a blacksmith, and has followed
the trade for seventeen years. He opened his first shop at No. 1644 Temple
Street, Los Angeles. In November, 1903, he located in Santa Monica and did an
extensive business. He sold out June 1st, 1906. He owns a comfortable home at
Towner Ave. and 18th Street, and was one of the first to locate in Fairview
Heights that thrifty suburb to Santa Monica. He also owns valuable property on
Twentieth Street, between Michigan and Towner Avenues. Mr. Parrish has been
twice married. His first wife was Ethel Grashauser. She died at Nordhoff, in
Ventura County, in 1887. For a second wife he married Miss Martha T. Sluthour, a
native of Missouri, born near Zodiac, Vernon County. They have three children
Gladys A., Helen A. and Martha L. Fred, an only son, died December 30th, 1907,
three years and nine months of age.

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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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