Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Parrish, Isaac E. 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


    ISAAC E. PARRISH is a native of Spencer County, Kentucky, born about twenty
miles from Louisville. He is the son of Edward N. and Francis Eldridge Parrish,
both natives of Virginia. He is a carpenter by trade, and a contractor and
builder by occupation. He raised six boys and four girls. The subject of this
sketch is the second son and only one in California. He learned the carpenters'
trade. Leaving home at twenty years of age, he went to Michigan, spent a brief
time at Lansing, and then went to Wood County, Ohio. At Miltonville he married
Helen Miller, April 2nd, 1865. He went to Terre Haute, Ind., the following fall.
Coming west to Des Moines, Ia., he there spent about thirty-eight years actively
engaged in building operations. He came to California in 1887 and located in Los
Angeles. Mrs. Parrish died July 24th, 1899, leaving six children, two by a
former marriage.

    For a second wife Mr. Parrish married Emily C. Bedwells Potts, widow of the
late James W. Potts, one of Los Angeles' best known pioneers.

    Mr. and Mrs. Parrish live near Twentieth and Oregon Avenues, Santa Monica.
They are members of the Church of the Nazarene, Los Angeles.


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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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