"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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WILLARD E. PARKS was born in Martinsville, November 7, 1855. He was the
youngest of nine children born to PERMINTER M. PARKS, a native of North
Carolina. He came to Indiana when seven years of age, and in twenty-two
years was married and living in Martinsville with a family growing up around
him. He was quite a prominent man in Indiana; his death occurred on July
24, 1867, in his sixtieth year. The subject of this sketch was reared in
Martinsville, and educated in the public schools. In 1873, he entered
Wabash College at Crawfordsville, which he attended for one year. In 1875,
he entered Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Ky., where he stayed
for one year. In 1874, he had attended the Christian University at
Indianapolis one year. Shortly after he was through college, he began
speculating, and is so engaged at present. On December 4, 1879, he was
married to MISS FANNIE HENDERSON, daughter of EBENEZER HENDERSON, of
Martinsville. They have two children--MYRA and ROBIN. Mr. Parks is a
member of the K. of P. Anniversary Lodge, and also of the I. O. O F.,
Martinsville Lodge, No. 274. In politics he is Democratic.
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