Biographical Sketch of William H. Park, Greene County, Missouri

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

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Dr. William H. Park is a son of John and Elizabeth (Waggoner) Park, and
was born January 8, 1825, at Milton, Pennsylvania.  When he was about
six years of hage his parents moved to Tiffin, Ohio.  He was educated
at Tiffin and at the Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio.  In the
spring of 1855 he graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Philadel-
phia.  He was appointed resident physician at the alms house of the 
city of Baltimore, Md., but soon after returned to Tiffin, Ohio.  In
August, 1862, he was commissioned as surgeon of the 49th Ohio Regiment,
Col. W. H. Gibson.  He was mustered out at Victoria, Texas, in Nov.,
1865.  He was at the battle of Shiloh, Stone River, Liberty Gap and 
Chickamauga.  He was captured and taken to Atlanta, and afterwards con-
fined at Libby Prison and at Andersonville.  Afterward he was at the
battle of Nashville and went with the army to San Antonia, Texas.  In
May, 1866, he came to Greene County, Missouri, and settled upon Leeper
Prairie, near Bois D'Arc, and was one of the first to settle upon that
celebrated prairie after the war.  He followed his profession and at 
one time owned about 700 acres of land.  He came to Springfield in
September, 1881.  He is now of the firm of T. E. Crank & Co., druggists
of North Springfield, and at Golden City.  He was married Nov. 9, 1858,
to Miss Clara Rupert, of Bloomsburg, Penn.  They have had six children,
one son and five daughters.  His wife is a member of the Calvary Pres-
byterian Church.  The doctor's father died at Tiffin, Ohio, in August,
1868, aged eighty, and his mother died July 12, 1881, aged eighty-four.
In 1850 Dr. Park went to California and returned in 1853.  He was min-
ing and merchandising while there.

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