PARK, MYRON D., son of AbeI and Sophia (Dow) Park, was born in Lyndon, Vermont, March 28, 1846. Samuel Park, his grandfather, came from Newfane, Vermont, and settled in Lyndon as a pioneer in the year 1800, and cleared up a farm now owned by his grandson, William L. Park, which has been in the family ownership more than a century. M. D. Park, one of a family of four sons and two daughters, was reared upon the ancestral farm, and resided there until he was thirty-six years old. He then farmed several years in Wheelock, was engaged in trade in Wheelock three years, and conducted the Caledonia Spring House three years, where he built up a good patronage, meanwhile continuing in trade. He sold the Wheelock hotel to Marshall Way in 1893, and soon after moved to St. Johnsbury Center, rented the new store of H. M. Scott, put in a stock of general merchandise, and bought the store in 1899. 

Mr. Park is a genial and accommodating salesman, and by industry and fair dealing has achieved a good measure of success in business. He carries a general assortment of goods adapted to the demands of the trade, his special features being choice family groceries and provisions. He is now handling feed and flour and has recently enlarged his store to meet the demands of increasing trade. Mr. Park served four years as selectman in Wheelock, and the same time as lister. Liberal in his social affinities, he affiliates with Union lodge, I. O. O. F., of Lyndon, and Passumpsic lodge, F. & A. M., of St. Johnsbury.

He married in 1880 Miss Julia Locklin of Lyndon.  
 

Source:  Successful Vermonters, William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical Publishing Company, 1904, page 99-100.

Prepared by Tom Dunn, August 2005