The Park Record Containing An Account of the Ancestry And Descendants of Thomas
The Park Record Containing An Account of the Ancestry And Descendants of Thomas
Edwin H Edwin Horatio Park
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Park's plans for establish- ing a c(illef, 'e. About this time Mr. Park entered a large tract of laud in La Salle ccuuty, Illinois. July 12, 1855, he niairied Miss Mary Louise Holmes, of New York eity. Th.^y went to Parkville that fall, and Mr. Park con- tinued to show his interest in the town. He was the leading spirit in the building of the Parkville and Grand River R. R. And was the drst president of its board of di- rectors. This road was graded as far as Cameron when the civil war broke ou...t, and it was abandoned. He was also a promoter of the C. B. & Q. R. R. In its western lines and rendered the road valuable assistance. As he had been an earnest, fearless free-state man in the border war, and suffered for his position, so in the war for the Union he knew he had to suffer more. He was fearless when he was right, and anxious to be found in the right. A loyal Union man, he was a target for the pro-slavery element, and many times was he notified to leave the state. All tlirough the years of the war he WHS the especial dislike of the jjueriilas, and one year he did not sleep at home a month altogether, sleeping in cHvea in the woods.
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