BIOGRAPHIES:  John PARKINSON, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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John Parkinson, farmer, P. O. Pepin, was born at Bashaleaves,
Yorkshire, England, September 13, 1830.  His parents were poor and his
attendance at day school was limited to twelve months.  Before he was
eight years old he began work as a calico printer's assistant.  In
July, 1844, he was bound out for seven years to learn the trade, at
which he continued to work until coming to America.  He was married
September 17, 1853, to Dorothea, daughter of Mark and Alice (Holden)
Chippendale, who has borne him ten children, as follows:  Elizabeth,
born July 6, 1854, died August 28, 1855; Mary, Mrs. O. F. Marks, born
May 24, 1856; Alice, Mrs. J. Jahnke, born June 27, 1858; John, born
October 20, 1860, died September 29, 1861; Helen, born December 21,
1861; William, born March 25, 1864, died October 3, 1871; John, born
February 3, 1866, died in June, 1875; Thomas, born July 16, 1869;
Robert, born September 17, 1871, died in 1875; Martha A., born April 3,
1874.  In 1863 Mr. Parkinson came to Pepin, where his brothers, William
and Thomas, had preceded him; the former died February 17, 1877, the
latter, whose wife died in 1880, has since resided with his brother; he
has four living children:  John, Hettie E., Margaret J. and Emeline. 
John Parkinson now owns 160 acres of land on sections seven and
eighteen, township twenty-three, range fourteen, which is well stocked
and improved.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 743.


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