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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [229-230]

           RICHARD PARR, farmer, section 23, Grant Township, was born in
        Ireland in December, 1832.  His parents, JACOB and ANN E. PARR,
        were natives of Ireland and emigrated thence to the Dominion of
        Canada about the year 1832.  The mother died there, and later the
        father came to Huron County to reside with his son, where he died
        March 10, 1883.
           MR. PARR was an infant of three months when his parents removed
        to Canada, and he grew up in the Dominion.  At the age of 16 years
        he was apprenticed to learn the cooper's trade and followed that as
        a business 12 years.
           In the spring of 1880 he bought 160 acres of land in Grant
        Township. Of this 70 acres are under improvement.  MR. PARR is a
        Republican in political sentiment.
           He was married Jan. 27, 1858, to ANN WILSON.  Their surviving
        children are ANN E., JOHNATHAN, RICHARD, JR., JACOB C, LUCINDA,
        GEORGE A., EMMA and HATTIE H.  A pair of twins died in infancy.
        MRS. PARR was born in Ireland, and was brought in her infancy by
        her parents to Canada, in 1841. The family attend the Methodist
        Episcopal Church.

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