Alameda County Biographies

Frank A. Parish

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        Frank A. Parish, general manager of Frank A. Parish & Company, has been 
engaged in the real-estate business in Oakland since the fall of 1910. His birth 
occurred in Corvallis, Oregon, on the l0th of May, 1873, his parents being James 
A. and Matilda E. Parish. In the acquirement of an education he remained a 
public-school student of The Dalles, Oregon, until 1894 and then went to Des 
Moines, Iowa, where he pursued a course in oratory, elocution and dramatic art 
at Drake University. He afterward lectured throughout the state until 1901 and 
in that year removed to Lawton, Oklahoma, where he embarked in the real-estate 
business, handling town sites until 1905, when he disposed of his interests. His 
next place of residence was Long Beach, California, where he dealt in 
real-estate until the fall of 1910, when he came to Oakland. Here he has been 
engaged in the general real-estate business throughout the intervening three 
years, making a specialty of trading country properties for city realty.
        The following is an excerpt from a local publication: "It is the purpose 
and intent of this issue of our Home Industry Edition to call the attention of 
our friends, members and readers to those business houses who have shown a 
kindly interest in the principles we promulgate, and it is with this end in view 
that we are pleased to give space to the well known firm of Frank A. Parish & 
Company, dealers in real-estate and making a specialty of exchanges, located at 
1544 Broadway. This firm enjoys the hearty good-will of the entire wage-earning 
population with which they have done business, and the fact that their business 
has continued to thrive under the vigorous business policy proves that the fair 
and reasonable consideration always given to their customers is appreciated. Of 
equal importance is the fact that this firm's standing in the community is such 
as to reflect great credit upon the city at large. They are among the leading 
business men of this section and have never hesitated to give liberal support to 
all worthy projects that have had for their object the uplifting and betterment 
of the city's welfare. We urge our readers to do all in their power to further 
this firm's interest during the ensuing year."
        On the 26th of June, 1894, in Heppner, Oregon, Mr. Parish was united in 
marriage to Miss Effie J. Warren, by whom he has a daughter, Irma, who is 
eighteen years of age and a high-school student. In politics he is independent, 
while fraternally he is identified with the Masons and the Elks. He is also a 
valued member of the Oakland Real Estate Association.
 
Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 
1914, p. 146