J. H. Parnell Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 916

J. H. PARNELL, Platteville; is a son of William Parnell, of England, who 
emigrated in 1842, locating in Galena, Ill., where J. H. Parnell was born in 
1844; three years later the family came to Grant Co., where the mother died and 
the father still resides.  His son, our subject, married Miss Mary J., daughter 
of Thomas Chapman, Esq., of Platteville; they have three children - Jesse Lee, 
Lillie May and Carrie Edwards, all born in Platteville.  From 1862 until 1874, 
Mr. Parnell was in the mercantile business here; he then began his present 
business of receiving, feeding and weighing live stock for farmers, drovers, and 
all who wish such accommodation; he has convenient buildings, yards. etc., and 
has established a good trade; it was first begun by Chapman & Kirkpatrick.  Mr. 
Parnell is a member of the Platteville Hook and Ladder Co., and of the A. O. U. 
W.