Biographical Sketch of Henry Park, M.D., Johnson County, Missouri, 
Knob Noster

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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Henry Park, M. D., a prominent and highly valued physician of Knob 
Noster, Missouri, was born in Johnson county in 1858.  He is the son
of John and Letitia (Bigham) Park, the former a son of William Park,
who lived and died in Kentucky, and the latter, the daughter of Mr.
Bigham, of Alabama.  John Park was born in Kentucky in 1818.  He left
Kentucky in early manhood and came to Missouri in 1845, locating in
Pettis county, where he remained 12 years.  In 1857, he moved to John-
son county, where he purchased 440 acres of land and engaged in farm-
ing and stock raising.  John Park was well known throughout Johnson
county and was hihly esteemed and respected.  Perhaps few men in this
section of the state have as many friends and acquaintances as had he,
and his death in 1894 was the souce of deepest regret to scores of men
and women in this community.  He was a citizen possessing many quali-
ties commanding respect and worthy of the greatest honor and esteem.
Mrs. Park made her home with her son, Dr. Henry Park, until her death
in 1916.  Henry Park attended the public schools of Johnson county and
the Warrensburg State Normal School.  He is a graduate of Barnes' Uni-
versity in the class of 1893.  For 10 years he was engaged in the 
teaching profession, four years of which were spent in Kansas, before 
he entered the medical school.  Doctor Park began the practice of
medicine at Dunksburg, Missouri.  In 1893 and in 1909 he entered the
medical profession at Knob Noster where he now has a very large prac-
tice, a patronage which encompases a circuit of ten miles in practic-
ally all directions from Knob Noster.  Dr. Park drives a car and is
thus enabled to reach his most distant patient within thirty minutes of
receiving the call.  Dr. Henry Park was united in marriage with Susan
Swope in 1882.  Susan (Swope) Park is the daughter of Milton Swope, a
native of Kentucky.  To Dr. and Mrs. Park have been born two children:
Mrs. Bertha Winston, Lamonte, Missouri; and Pinkney F., who is attend-
ing the Bennett Medical College at Chicago, Illinois.  Dr. and Mrs.
Park are members of the Christian church, of which Dr. Park is a highly
regarded elder.  The Park home, which is located in Knob Noster, is a
large, modern structure, built of brick, containing ten spacious rooms
and a splendid basement.  Dr. Park's offices is located at his resi-
dence.  Politically, Dr. Park is affiliated with the Democratic party.
He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and is local registrar
and a member of the Johnson county and State Medical Societies.

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