Klickitat-Yakima County WA Archives Biographies.....Parriott, B. J. 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 617 - 618
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     B. J. PARRIOTT, who operates a well equipped machine and blacksmith shop at
White Salmon, Washington, has had a long and varied business career, having for
many years practiced the veterinary science and been engaged in other pursuits.
Born in Butler county, Iowa, he is a son of Marion and Cordelia Parriott, the
former of whom died in Iowa in 1903, and the mother is still living at
Estherville, that state, at the age of eighty-three years. They were the parents
of three children: Byron, who is now farming near St. Paul,, Minnesota; B. J.;
and Mrs. Edith Mahlum, of Estherville, Iowa.

     B. J. Parriott was educated in the public schools of Estherville, Emmett
county, Iowa, and then worked at the transfer business there for a few years. He
was next employed in a veterinary hospital there, and, taking an interest in the
work, gave it serious study and was licensed to practice. He followed that
profession in Iowa and North Dakota for about ten years, meeting with large
success, particularly in the latter state. He kept four teams of horses for his
personal use and a driver who knew the country well, and necessarily made many
long and tiresome trips, frequently being compelled to secure his sleep in the
buggy while being driven on his rounds. His practice covered a section of
country sixty miles long by forty miles wide, which meant many long and hard
trips. In 1909 Mr. Parriott came to the coast, locating in Lebanon, Linn county,
Oregon, where he worked at the carpenter trade, assisting in the building of a
new hotel, and lived there until he went to Goldendale, Washington, where he
followed the veterinary profession, and also engaged in the teaming and transfer
business for several years. Later he went to Yakima, Washington, where he was
foreman of a garage for two years. In 1922 he located in Hood River, Oregon,
where he worked in a garage until 1925, when he came to White Salmon and
established his present business, opening a machine and blacksmith shop, in
which he does all kinds of work in those lines, no job being too large or too
small for him to handle. He has done a vast amount of tractor, truck and sawmill
work, covering a large territory, and he also has the local agency for the
Cletrac tractors and all kinds of roadbuilding and sawmill machinery.

     Mr. Parriott has been married twice, first, in 1900, to Miss Amy L. Lyon,
who was born in Genesee, Illinois, and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Lyon, both now deceased. Mrs. Parriott died February 19, 1920, leaving a
daughter, Marvel, who was born in Ledgerwood, North Dakota, and was graduated
from high school in Chicago, Illinois, and a polytechnic college in Portland,
Oregon, after which she spent two years at Greenfield College, Indiana, and is
now employed in an office in Portland. In 1924 Mr. Parriott married Mrs. Mattie
L. (Thomas) Pugh. Mr. Parriott is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and
the Grange. While living in Richland county, North Dakota, he served as deputy
sheriff, and he has always taken an active interest in the welfare of the
various communities in which he has lived. The people of White Salmon have found
him a good citizen, trustworthy in every relation of life, and since coming here
he has made a host of warm friends.

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