Charles S. Parker, born at Barre, Vt.,
November 2, 1820, moved to Elmore with his parents when young. He was educated,
at the common schools and academies. In early life he followed teaching
in winter working at farming in the summer. He was married October 17,
1842, to Eliza A. Town, and had a family of five children, three sons and
two daughters. The sons, Carlos S. and Natt S., are in the mercantile business,
in Montgomery, Franklin county, and C. S. is postmaster. C. S. Parker has
been twice elected sheriff of Lamoille county, in 1857 and '58, and twice
one of the assistant judges of this county, 1867 and '68; and was elected
county commissioner in March, 1867; has been one of the county bailiffs,
also one of the justice of the peace; was elected town representative in
1863, also in 1864; has held nearly every town office, and many of them
several years in succession; is at the present writing town grand juror,
treasurer, and overseer of the poor.
He resides on road 16, is a farmer,
and was for two years president of the Lamoille county agricultural society.
He keeps twenty-five cows, all jerseys, and mostly thoroughbred, and is
supposed to be the pioneer breeder of Jersey stock in Lamoille county.
He has also been a member of the M. E. church forty-five years, and is
the oldest steward; was one of the building committee, and paid liberally
for the erection of the church a few years since at Elmore Pond. Mr. Parker
has been breeding Jersey stock for the past fourteen years, having made
his first purchase, a bull and heifer calf, of the late Charles Kinney,
of Plainfield, Vt. He has not been to the trouble to keep his stock registered,
but has taken much pains to produce purity of blood.
Source: Gazetteer
of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, VT; 1883-1884,
by Hamilton Child, July, 1883, page 85.
Additional
information available from Tom Dunn
who provided this photo and biographical sketch.
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