Biographical Sketch of Daniel M. Park, Jefferson County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Daniel M. Park, city clerk of De Soto, is a native of Syracuse, N. Y.,
and was born in August, 1850.  He is the only survivor of the three
children born to Robert and Mary C. (Baker) Park, of Scotch-Irish and
English descent, respectively, and natives of New Hampshire and New
York.  Robert Part remained in his native State until eighteen years 
of age, when he went to Boston and learned the trade of a mason in all
its branches.  He subsequently went to Martha's Vineyard and engaged
in contracting, and afterward made a tour of through the now Central
States, then mostly Territories, being at Cincinnati and Galena in 
their early days, finally locating at Syracuse, N. Y., where he was
married.  In 1859 he removed to De Soto, where he passed the remainder
of his life, and died in 1877.  Daniel M. Park was only nine years old
when his parents settled in De Soto, where he was educated in the pub-
lic schools.  When twenty years of age he commenced bridge building on
the Iron Mountain Railroad, which he followed ten years.  In the fall
of 1880 he went to Kansas City, and established a restaurant and con-
fectionery stand, which he conducted six months and afterward was a
salesman in that city.  Returning to De Soto in the fall of 1881, he
was elected city clerk of that place, in the spring of 1883, to which
position he has since been continuously re-elected; after election as
city clerk he engaged in the real estate and insurance business, in
the latter representing the Royal of Liverpool, the Commercial Union 
of London and the Fireman's Fund of California.  Mr. Park is a strong
Republican, and in the campaign of 1884 was elected secretary of the
Central County Committee for Jefferson County, being re-elected in 
1886.  At the time of his first election, the Republican party in Jeff-
erson County stood 400 to 700 in the minority, and in the election of
November, 1886, that party elected all but two of their candidates,
securing the presiding county judge and a member of the Legislature.
He is also a member of the Knights of Honor, and is a young man well
esteemed both in social and business circles.

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