Nowata Co., Oklahoma - Bio for A. H. Parrish
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MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA:
Including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee,
Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig,
and Ottawa. Vol. II.

by John D. Benedict

1922
The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago 
Page 464

A.H. PARRISH 

One of the representative agriculturists of Nowata county is A.H.
Parrish, who is engaged in farming four and one-quarter miles
northeast of Alluwe. He was born in Cooweescoowee district on the
2d of November, 1870, a son of Holland L. and Cynthia J. (Daniel)
Parrish, the later being of Cherokee extraction. The father
located in Indian Territory on the 2d of February, 1869, acquiring
land one mile south of Coodys Bluff, where he is still residing.
He is now seventy-three years of age and enjoying the best of
health. Mrs. Parrish was born in Boone county, Arkansas, and died
on the 20th of March, 1893, in her forty-third year. Her father,
William C. Daniel, was born near Memphis, Tennessee, on November 4,
1822. 

A.H. Parrish received his education in the common schools of Coodys
Bluff, but he was unable to attend regularly as it was necessary
for him to work in order to contribute to the support of the
family. At the age of twenty-two years he left the home farm and
moved to his present place of one hundred and seventy acres, four
and a quarter miles northeast of Alluwe and four miles southeast of
his old home. His home and outbuildings are modern and kept in a
good state of repair and besides having eighty acres under
cultivation he has fine timber and pasture land. He raises some of
the finest grain in Nowata county and is also interested in stock
raising. Oil has been found on the land in large quantities and
eleven producing wells are now in operation. Mr. Parrish is one of
the progressive agriculturists of Nowata county and through reading
agricultural literature he keeps in constant touch with the
improvement that is ever being made along this line. 

On the 29th of July, 1894, was celebrated the marriage of Mr.
Parrish to Miss Maude M. Roberts, a daughter of James Thomas and
Lydia (James) Roberts of Nowata, natives of Kentucky. Mrs. Parrish
was born in Montgomery, Kansas. To the union of Mr. and Mrs.
Parrish the following children have been born: Claude H.,
twenty-six years of age, who is married and lives near El Dorado,
Kansas; Thomas L., twenty-three years of age, who resides near his
brother in Kansas; Gracie F., the wife of A.R. Matheson, of Nowata;
Irene M., the wife of C.R. Morgan, who is farming land adjoining
Mr. Parrish’s; Tressa E., the wife of Harvey H. Cook, living with
Mr. Parish; Marie, who is living at home and is the only survivor
of triplets; and Gladys M. and Virginia L., at home. 

Since attaining his majority Mr. Parrish has given his political
support to the democratic party, having firm belief in its
principles as factors in good government. He has served as clerk of
the school board in Salt Creek district, No. 47, since 1903, and
there is no movement for the development and improvement of the
community that seeks his aid in vain. Fraternally he is identified
with the Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is
conceded to be an exemplary member of those organizations. A native
of Nowata county, he has resided here all his life and his friends
are legion. He is rightly entitled to the proud American title of
self-made man, for he has attained his present success as the
result of intelligently directed efforts, stanch determination and
laudable ambition. 

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