People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — ROBERT PARKER. [ARTICLE]

ROBERT PARKER.

Robert Parker of Remington, Indiana, whose portrait appears on page six, is a native Jasperite, having been born in Hanging Grove township June 13, 1848; was reared on the farm east of Rensselaer until sixteen years of age, the family then removing from the farm to Monon, White county, where of this sketch attended school and took his first lessons in the mercantile business. In the year of 1860 and 1866 he attended the Ladoga Academy, the fait of 1866 going to Remington, where he was employed in the first drug store established in the town. Subsequently, learned telegraphy, he was for six years the freight and ticket agent and telegraph operator for the railroad running through that place. In 1874 was appointed to a position in a bank at Indianapolis, where he resided until 1876. when lie returned to Remington, engageing in the lumber and banking business with Mr. John Burger. He finally gave up the lumber business, giving his whole time tc banking. He has been one of the'very busy men in that community, always found at his desk in the bank: has shown much public spirit and enterprise and enjoys to an unusual degree the confidence and respect-of the community and county in which he is an honored citizen. He was elected to represent Jasper and Newton counties in the state legislature in 1895. Mr. Parker has built up a good business in the town of Remington and has shown his enterprise by erecting a good substantial banking building, and a commodious and handsome residence, which would be a credit to a much larger city than Remington, an illustration of which is shown in this edition on page twenty-one, and last but not least is improving a beautiful grove near the town as a park and assembly grounds to be known as Fountain Park.