William Parkison and Catherine M. Rodgers

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Husband William Parkison ¹

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           Born:  - Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Benjamin Parkison (      -      ) 2 3 4
         Mother: Olivia Rodgers (      -      ) 2 4 5

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   Other Spouse: Sophia Playford (      -Aft 1893) 5

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Wife Catherine M. Rodgers ⁵

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         Father: Hon. James Rodgers (      -      ) 5
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1 M Allen R. Parkison ⁵

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2 F Ella J. Parkison ⁵

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         Spouse: [Unk] Spriggs (      -      ) 5

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3 F Rosalie Parkison ⁵

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4 F Mary M. Parkison ⁵

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5 F Olivia Parkison ⁵

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         Spouse: [Unk] Kelly (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - William Parkison

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He was born at the homestead in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He grew to manhood there, commenced early following the river, and at one time he and his brother, James, owned and ran several steamboats. He finally built a sawmill and carried on boat-building, then erected a paper mill at Elkhorn, just below the old homestead. He went to Alabama soon after the [Civil] war, intending to conduct a lumber business on the Tennessee river, but finding the place near Decatur, where he had contemplated locating, was already occupied, he purchased a cotton plantation. There he remained three years, and then returned to Pennsylvania.

About the beginning of the 1800s his father threw a dam across the river at Mingo and erected two flouring-mills (one on either side), a fulling-mill, and a saw-mill. After inheriting the estate, his son, William, built a paper-mill on the right bank of the river, and named that locality Elkhorn.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 895.

2 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 567.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 531.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 894.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1356.