Frederick Toscan Parrott Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

Surname: PARROTT
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page  903

  FREDERICK TOSCAN PARROTT, owner of a good farm of 160
acres, lying partly in the town of Greenland and partly in that of Ports-
mouth, on the Portsmouth and Exeter road, and who also holds the posi-
bon of road agent for the town of Greenland, was born in Arden, Orange
County, N. Y., May 6, 1880. His parents were Edward and Julia (Foun-
tain) Parrott, the father a native of Orange County, N. Y., and the
mother of New York City, where she now resides, her husband being
deceased. The latter was a civil and mining engineer. They had eight
children-Edward, Robert, Frederick Toscan, Julia, who died at the
age of fifteen years, Mary, wife of Henry Schroeder, Madeline, wife of
Osborn Fitzrandolph, Bruce and George.
  Frederick T. Parrott, the subject of this sketch, began his literary
education in the common schools of Orange Countv, N. Y ., subsequently
took a commercial course in Rochester, N. y ., and then took the short
course in farming at Cornell University. He then went to New York
City, where he entered the employ of the Joy Langdon Dry Goods Com-
pany, as clerk, remaining with them one year. He next went with Sib-
ley, Lindsey & Curr, of Rochester, N. Y., and was a clerk in their employ
for four years. Subsequent to this he worked as a rod man on the Erie
Canal for one year. He then spent three years in Japan as assistant
buyer for the firm of A. A. Valintine & Co., of New York, importers of
silks and oriental goods. On his return from the far east he settled in
New Jersey, where he conducted a farm for three years, or until about
six years ago, at which time he came to Rockingham County, N. H.,
and took charge of his present farm, which has been known as the Par-
rott farm for the last one hundred years, it having been that long in the
Parrott family. A Republican in politics, he takes an interest in good
government and is in sympathy with every project for improvement in
local conditions.
   Mr. Parrott was married, in 1908, to Adalaide Annette Dawson, a
native of England, and daughter of Arthur and Adalaide (Kent) Daw-
son, her father being an artist. In the Dawson family there were four
children-Mabel, Adalaide A. (wife of our subject), Henry and John.
Mr. and Mrs. Parrott are the parents of two children-Elizabeth Toscan
and Robert Parker. The family attend the Episcopal church.

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