Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Parker, William 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

William Parker, editor and proprietor of the Rock Falls News, is a native of 
Maysville, Ky., born in 1835, and is a descendant of the pioneers of that 
State. Commenced the printing business at the age of 15 and served three years 
in the office of the Ripley Bee, at Ripley, Ohio, afterwards served two years 
in the job office of the Cincinnati Enquirer. He came to Illinois in 1855 and 
commenced the publication of a paper at Salem, in Marion County, in the same 
year, and has been steadily engaged in the newspaper and printing business 
ever since. Mr. Parker entered the volunteer service of the United States army 
as Lieutenant of Co. A, 75th Ill. Vol. Inf., at Dixon, in 1862, and served 
till the close of the war, being promoted as Captain soon after going to the 
front. After the war closed he was commissioned Brevet Lieutenant Colonel for 
meritorious services on the field. He came from old Kentucky "emancipation" 
Whig stock, joined the Republican party at its organization and has never 
voted any other ticket. Mr. Parker was married in Salem, Marion Co., Ill., to 
Miss Ella Bond, in 1856. Miss Anna F. Parker, their only living child, is 
interested with her father in the publication of the Rock Falls News. Both 
self and wife are of Presbyterian and Congregational stock. He is Senior Vice-
Commander of Will Robinson Post, No. 274, G. A. R., and has been twice elected 
representative to the State Encampment of that order.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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