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AMOS PARKER was born near Triangle, Broome county, New York, June 13, 1833. He is a son of Chester and Mary A. (Clinton) Parker. The Parker family dates its arrival upon the soil of the new world in 1640, when William Parker came to New Haven, Connecticut. He had three children, of whom, the youngest, John, married and had two sons and two daughters. One of these called John, was born in Wallingford in 1648. He had a son John, who was followed by one Isaac. Isaac Parker (great-grandfather) was born in 1720, and his son, John Parker (grandfather), was born in Connecticut, in 1762, and, although a stripling of a boy, he joined a company composed of lads about his own age and fought the British in the Revolutionary war. His wife was Merab Parker, a distant cousin, who bore him eleven children. Chester Parker (father) was born in Broome county, in 1804, and upon reaching manhood married Mary A. Clinton, a daughter of John Clinton, who came from Vermont to Broome county, Chester Parker spent his short life farming in the northern part of the county mentioned and died when thirty-two years of age. He had a family of seven children. Mrs. Parker died in 1888, when in her eighty-third year.

Amos Parker was educated in the public schools, and while securing a higher education and preparing for college at the Lockport Union school, the Rebellion swept like a dark cloud over the land. He left school and enlisted in the 23d N. Y. Independent Battery, August, 1862, and served to the close of the war. His battery was stationed in North Carolina and he took part in all of its engagements, his discharge being accompanied with a lieutenant’s commission dated March 5, 1865, and bearing the signature of Gov. R. E. Fenton. Upon returning from the army he located in Niagara county and worked at carpentering until 1871 and then came to Ripley, where he engaged in farming.

Amos Parker, on November 21, 1865, married Weltha E. Pierce, a daughter of Horace and Lydia A. (Palmer) Pierce. Mr. Pierce was a native of Otsego county, from whence he came to Niagara county and died. He was a mechanic and farmer, and voted with the Republican party. Amos and Mrs. Parker were made happy by the birth of two children: Horace married Gertie Eddy, and is a farmer and grape culturist in Ripley. He has two daughters — Bessie L. and Lula; and Lydia E. still remains with her parents.

Amos Parker has been the incumbent of the office of justice of the peace from 1876 to 1888. He is also interested in fraternal and beneficial affairs, belonging to the Farmers’ Alliance, Grange and formerly the Masons, He is a Christian gentleman, actively engaged in religious work and takes especial pleasure in the Sunday-school in his district of which he has been superintendent for several years.

Amos Parker, an uncle of the subject’s, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and was the tallest man in his regiment. He served with La Fayette, whose life he was instrumental in saving. When the latter made his triumphal tour and visit to America in 1824, he had not forgotten the incident and publicly thanked the gentleman.