Biographical Sketch of Dr. Horace Monroe Parrish, Greene County, Missouri,
Springfield

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Dr. Parrish is the son of Peyton and Mary A. (Porter) Parrish, and was 
born at Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, March 18th, 1823.  In
November, 1837, he, with his brother Edwin R., and his uncle William
Parrish, came to Greene County, Missouri, and settled nine miles north-
west of Springfield, on Grand Prairie.  In March, 1840, he began the
study of surveying under County Surveyor J. L. McCraw, and then under
J. C. Farmer.  Upon the 9th of February, 1841, he entered the office of
Dr. G. P. Shackleford, and graduated in the medical department of 
Kemper's College, March 1st, 1845.  Nine years after he was given the 
degree at Nashville, Tennessee.  He followed his profession until 1866,
and from 1867 until 1880, followed surveying.  He did a large practice 
in medicine, often riding fifty or sixty miles to see patients.  He is
a Royal Arch Chapter Mason, and of the United Order, No. 5.  He is a
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and his wife of Calvary
Presbyterian Church.  Besides his town property, the doctor owns about
twelve hundred acres of land in the county.  He was married July 17th,
1849, to Mrs. Sarah J. Collins, nee Carson.  They had five children,
viz.: Albana C., wife of Dr. Clements; Mary B., wife of E. E. Adams, of
Chicago; Sarah E., Joseph E., and Frank M. (deceased).  The doctor's
grandfather, Joseph Parrish, was an Englishman, and came first to Vir-
ginia, and from there to Kentucky in 1793.  He was a soldier in the 
Revolutionary War, and was wounded at Guilford court house in the hip.

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