Frank C. Parrett
The Parrett family was one of the first to locate in Fayette county, Ohio, and the various members of this family have been prominently identified with the history of this county for nearly a century. Frank C. Parrett is a worthy representative of this family and a man of broad and liberal education, who is now devoting himself to the supervision of extensive farming interests in Fayette and Greene counties. A graduate of the State University of Ohio, a newspaper man of several years experience, he is now devoting himself to an agricultural career and is exhibiting marked ability in handling the large estate of his parents.
Frank C. Parrett, the son of John S. and Alice (Coffman) Parrett, was born in Union township, Fayette county, Ohio, on the old Samuel Coffman homestead September 13, 1882. His parents, both of whom were also natives of Fayette county, had only one child, Frank C. John S. Parrett was reared on Sugar creek, Union township, this county, and his wife was born and reared in the same township. He was a life-long farmer and after his marriage lived for one year in Washington C. H., where he was engaged in the hardware business. He then returned to the old Samuel Coffman homestead, where his wife was born, and lived there until his death, April 22, 1911. He was born in 1849 and spent his whole life in the county of his birth. His wife still survives him and lives on East Market street in Washington C. H. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. John S. Parrett was a farmer and stock raiser and a successful man in every way. He was active and industrious and accumulated a large estate. At one time he was a director in the Fayette County Bank and was also vice-president and a director in the Washington Savings Bank and Trust Company, having had a part in the organization of both banks.
The paternal grandparents of Frank C. Parrett were Frederick A. and Elizabeth (Grove) Parrett, natives of Ohio and pioneer settlers in Fayette county. Frederick Parrett cleared and improved a farm in Union township and was a large farmer and stock raiser and well known throughout the county. He lived to an advanced age, while his wife died a comparatively young woman. Frederick A. Parrett and wife were the parents of several children, Frederick, John S., Noah S., Christopher, and two who died in infancy. After the death of his first wife he married again and three children were born to his second union.
The maternal grandparents of Frank C. Parrett were Samuel and Nancy (Smith) Coffman, natives of Ohio and pioneer settlers in Fayette county. They both died at an advanced age after rearing a large family of children, Mrs. Jane Grove, Mrs. Matilda Johnson, Mrs. Charity Sturgeon, Mrs. Armilda Lanum, Mrs. Nancy Dick, Mrs. Alice Parrett, Samuel E. and Mrs. Mary Deinous.
Frank C. Parrett was reared on his father's farm in Union towmship .and graduated from the high school at Washington C. H. He then attended the Ohio Normal University at Ada, and later entered the Ohio State University at Columbus, graduating from that institution in the spring of 1904 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was then engaged in newspaper work for about four years, doing both reportorial and editorial work on various Columbus newspapers and on the Toledo Blade. In 1908 he took charge of a farm in Madison county, Ohio, where he remained for four years and after his father's death, in 1911, he returned to Washington C. H. and now looks after his father's and mother's lands in Fayette and Greene counties.
Mr. Parrett was married September 26, 1907, to Katherine Eastman, the daughter of Henry Neville and Lillian (Jones) Eastman. Mrs. Parrett was born in Columbus, Ohio, her father being a native of Zanesville and her mother of Columbus.
Politically, Mr. Parrett is a stanch Republican and has been one of the leaders of his party for many years in local affairs. On November 3, 1914, he was elected to the General Assembly of Ohio as representative from Fayette county, a fact which speaks highly of his standing in his county. Fraternally, he is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons at Columbus, Ohio, and also of the Royal Arch Masons of the same place.
From History of Fayette County Ohio - Her People, Industries and Institutions by Frank M. Allen (1914, R. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.)