BIO; PARKS,Robert  1925 GEAUGA COUNTY OHIO
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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 286-287

	ROBERT STONE PARKS has been an Ohio 
attorney for thirty years, and most of 
his practice has been done in the county seat 
of Geauga County, at Chardon. 
He is the present prosecuting attorney of that 
county and all his relations 
as a lawyer and public official have brought 
him a high degree of esteem in 
that section of Ohio.
	Mr. Parks was born at Chardon, Geauga 
County, December 10, 1872. His 
father, Orrin R. Parks, who was born at 
Chardon, December 31, 1845, as a 
young man entered business as a tinner 
and hardware merchant, and 
subsequently organized and became senior 
member of Parks Brothers and later 
Parks & Warriner, a hardware firm that for 
many years has stood in the 
front rank of Chardon business enterprises. 
He was a republican, served on 
the City Council a number of terms, and 
while on the council was also a 
member of the board that established a 
village light plant. In the Civil 
war he was a Union soldier, a member of 
Battery C of the First Ohio Light 
Artillery, and served through the last 
two years of the war. He was 
affiliated with Chardon Lodge No. 93, 
Free and Accepted Masons. Orrin R. 
Parks, who died at Chardon in January, 
1918, married Virginia Stone, a 
native of Newbury, Geuaga County, who 
died at birth of her only child, 
Robert Stone Parks. The second wife of 
Orrin R. Parks was Chloe A. Barker, 
who was also a native of Newbury, and 
now lives at Chardon. Her only child 
is Mildred, who married E. E. Clark, of 
Cleveland, Ohio, now deceased.
	Robert Stone Parks as a boy 
attended the public schools of Chardon, 
graduating from high school in 1891. He 
then entered the law department of 
the University of Michigan, and finished 
the course and received the 
Bachelor of Laws degree with the class of 1894.
Admitted to the Ohio bar 
June 6 of that year, he immediately engaged in 
practice at Chardon, and his 
active membership in the bar of that city has 
been continuous except for 
two years while he was engaged in practice at 
Lorain, Ohio, and a year and 
a half at Willoughby. his law offices are in 
the First National Bank Building.
	For twenty years Mr. Parks has been 
village clerk of Chardon, his present 
term expiring January 1, 1924. He has had 
charge of the official records of 
the village through an era marked by many 
important improvements, including 
the installation of a  water plant, 
building of sewers, street paving. On 
March 1, 1921, Mr. Parks was appointed 
attorney of Geauga County to 
fill  the vacancy caused by the resignation 
of R.H. Patchin. In November, 
1921, he was elected for the regular 
two-year term, which began January 21, 
1922.
	Mr. Parks is a republican, has served 
as secretary of Chardon Lodge No. 
93, Free and Accepted Masons, as secretary of 
Chardon Chapter No. 106, 
Royal Arch Masons, is noble grand of Chardon 
Lodge No. 213, Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, and is past chancellor 
commander of Lodge No. 731, 
Knights of Pythias. He organized and is a 
charter member of Chardon Kiwanis 
Club. Mr. Parks is a stockholder in the 
First National Bank of Chardon, and 
among other real estate owns a modern home 
at 141 North Main Street. He 
married in his native town, September 10, 
1899, Miss Nina Ames, daughter of 
Bernard D. and Victoria Ames, now deceased. 
Her father for sixteen years 
held the office of clerk of courts of 
Geauga County. Mr. and Mrs. Parks 
have three children: Virginia Victoria, 
at home; David R., a student in 
Syracuse University in New York; and 
Edward Ames, attending the Chardon 
High School.




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