Bio of George J. PARKER (b.1857), Wright Co., MN

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This Bio is from the HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY, Volumes I and II,
Published in 1915 by Franklin Curtiss - Wedge.
Surname Index for The HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY can be found at:
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347             HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

George J. Parker, a substantial farmer of Corinna township, was born 
in Dora, Ind., March 2, 1857, son of Jonah Parker, the carpenter, and 
Rachael (Rakestraw) Parker. George J. Parker started his career at the 
age of seven, when he received ten cents a day as helper to a gardener. 
When he was eight years old he was earning $8 a mouth driving a team. 
He also earned money during his boyhood by trapping ground hogs and 
other small animals. As a youth he worked five years with a ditching 
crew. It was in 1879 that he left Indiana and located in Olmsted county, 
this state, where he remained about a year. At the end of this period 
he married and went back to Indiana. Since 1881 he has lived in this 
state permanently. In that year he again came to Minnesota. For four 
years he rented farms in Olmsted county. and then he lived three years 
in the city of Rochester in the same 

348             HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

county. The next eight years of his life were spent on a rented stock 
farm near Taopi, in Mower county, this state. In 1896 he bought 160 
acres in section 9, Clayton township, in the same county. Six years 
later, in 1902, he sold out and came to Wright county, where he 
purchased 160 acres in section 9, Corinna township. On this place 
he still resides. He successfully carries on general farming, and 
makes a specialty of Blue Stem wheat, Chester White swine and dairy 
cattle. He is grading his stock into Shorthorns, and is much pleased 
with the results. Although he is comparatively a new comer, he is a 
well-known man, and has served as school treasurer and as town 
supervisor. He was likewise a member of the school board of his 
district in Mower county. He and his wife attend the Disciple church. 
Mr. Parker was married September 2, 1880, to Lucinda Campbell, 
daughter of Stirling and Roukamma (Badgley) Campbell, the former 
of whom was a veteran of the Sioux uprising, having served in Co. 
D, Brackett's Battalion, Independent Cavalry, eighteen months, 
from December, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Parker have had two children: 
Harry, born August 14, 1882, and Ethel L., born September 8, 1896. 
Harry was married December 21, 1904, to Bertha Schuman, daughter 
of William and Minnie Schuman, and they have three children, Howard 
M., Ruth L. and George M.