Sacramento County Biographies

H. A. PARKER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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LEE TOWNSHIP. 
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	Lives fourteen miles east of Sacramento, and eight miles from 
Brighton, his Post Office; was born in Ohio, in 1828, and lived there until 
1852, engaged in the manufacture of edge tools; he came to California in that 
year, by way of the Isthmus; was one hundred and sixty-eight days coming from 
Panama to San Francisco, and suffered a great deal on account of short rations; 
he followed mining, in Tuolumne County, until 1853, when he went to Klamath, and 
mined until 1859; he then returned to Ohio, and remained until 1860, when he 
drove stock across the plains to this county, and has since been farming and 
teaming. Mr. Parker has since made two trips to Iowa, in 1872 and 1873. He was 
married in the last-mentioned year to Miss M. W. Wilcox, a native of that State; 
they have one child a son. He owns five hundred and thirty-one acres, worth 
about $8,000. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.