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It is with pleasure that we come now to record in this volume a reference to the principal landmarks in the life of the gentleman whose name forms the caption of this article, speaking first of his ancestry.

His father, Edward Parker, was born in county Dublin, Ireland, where he grew up and learned his trade as blacksmith. When he had attained the age of twenty-two years he emigrated to the land of greater opportunity, arriving at New York city, where he was employed at his trade as a journeyman. In 1847 he came to Port Chester and continued at his trade for ten years, when he purchased the shop now owned by his son. Judge Parker, and plied his laborious vocation here as long as he lived, his death taking place April 4, 1897, at the age of seventy-six years and six months. Politically he was a Democrat, and in public office he was village trustee two terms and for a time overseer of the poor. In religion he was a Catholic. For his wife he married Miss Ellen Mulvaney, a native of Ireland, who was brought to America when but two years of age; and she is still living, aged fifty-eight years. She also is a communicant of the Catholic church. Of her sixteen children nine are still living.

Judge Parker, of whom we more particularly write, was born May 27, 1864, in Port Chester, educated in the public and Catholic schools, and at the age of seventeen years began to learn the blacksmith's trade of his father, and he continued in that heavy work for fifteen years; and since that time he has managed the shop that his father owned.

Politically, he is an active Democrat. He has served one term as village treasurer, which office he resigned when he was appointed a justice of the peace to fill an unexpired term, and after the expiration of that period he was elected for a full term. He is a good man-for the place.

In matrimony he was united with Miss Maggie Stanley, of this place, and they have two daughters, named Helen and Jane Elizabeth.