Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1919 — FORMER REMINGTON DANKER [ARTICLE]

FORMER REMINGTON DANKER

Robert Parker Died of Apoplexy in • California March 3. Friends of thp Robert Parker family at Remington received cards from Berkeley, California, the latter part of l»st week bearing the following inscription: * Robert Parker, born June 13, 1848; died March 3, 1919. It is said that death resulted from apoplexy, although he had been in poor health for a year or more. He was married in 1868 to Miss Harriet Black of Remington, who with one son and three daughters survive him.. Mr. Parker was born in Hanging Grove township, Jasper county, where his boyhood was spent upon a farm. His parents moved to Monon in 1862, and four years later Robert went to Remington where he was employed as a clerk in a drug store for some two'years, when he was employed as telegraph operator and assistant agent at the junction of the New Albany & Columbus and Indiana Central railroads at Reynolds. After several months service there he was appointed freight and express agent

at /Remington, which position he held until 1874, when he went to Indianapolis as teller of a new bank established there. After a little more than a year in Indianapolis he returned to Remington and, in company with his brother-in-law, John Burger, he opened a bank and engaged in the lumber and coal business with Mr. Burger under the firm name of Burger & Parker, Mr. Parker buying out the former’s interest in the bank some 10 years later. He continued in the banking business until some 12 or 14 years ago when his bank failed for several hundred thousand dollars and very small dividends were ever received by the creditors. A couple of years

after the failure of bls bank he moved to California and bad been living at Beabrlght Station, Santa Crus, with hla wife and unmarried daughter, Twonnette. Mr, Parker served in the 57tb general assembly of Indian* as joint representative of the joint counties of Jasper and Newton, having been elected on the Republican ticket, of which party he was a prominent member. His death occurred at the borne of his son-in-law, Hartley R. Church, a former Remington boy, but who has been a (resident of Berkley, California, for several years.