Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Parrett, David P. 1829 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   David P. Parrett, farmer and stock dealer, Newtown, was the son of David and
Nancy (Miller) Parrett. His father came from Dayton, Ohio, in 1826, and bought
eighty acres of land on Turkey Run, in Shawnee township. Having raised a crop,
in the following winter he went back and brought his family. Not liking his
location, in the spring of 1828 he purchased the N. 1/2 N. W. 1/4 Sec. 3, T. 20,
K. 7, and moved to this new place. Some years after he acquired the other half
of the same quarter. It was on this place that the subject of this notice was
born August 19, 1829. His father was a cooper, and from him he learned the same
trade, working at this winters for several years when a young man, and in summer
time tending the farm. His father was one of the founders of the Presbyterian
church on Coal creek, the first in the county, and as long as he lived was a
recognized pillar in that society. He was a strictly temperate man during his
whole life, and strongly and effectively opposed to the use of intoxicating
liquor as a beverage. He was one of the first to banish strong drink from the
harvest field; he formed the determination to abolish it from his own premises,
and put in force this noble resolution at the imminent risk of losing his crop.
His neighbors, appreciating his good purpose and respecting the firm stand he
had for taken principle, came forward to his assistance and his harvest was
secured. It ought to be remarked here that another of the bold and upright
spirits who set out earliest in this reform, was William McClure. Mr. Parrett
died at Covington, and his wife at her old home, in 1848. Our subject was
married February 2, 1853, to Mary E. Dagger, daughter of James Dagger, an early
settler. They have six living children: Clara E., born November 26, 1854; James
A., May 10, 1858; Franz S. December 20, 1859; Edgar E., July 30, 1863; Harry M.,
May 18, 1866; and Ira D., February 6, 1870. In the years 1875 and 1876 Mr.
Parrett assessed Richland township, receiving his appointment from the county
commissioners, when the change was made from county assessor to township
assessors. He belongs to the Presbyterian church, and is a republican. His
homestead embraces 185 acres, all but twenty acres of woodland being reduced to
cultivation.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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