John P. Parker
John P. Parker, farmer, P. O. Ravenna, was born in Bethel, Windsor Co., Vt. , January 24. 1813; son of Nathan and Bethiah (Peak) Parker, former a native of Connecticut, latter of Windsor, where they were married and lived, dying at the respective ages of eighty-six and fifty-three years. Our subject moved to and settled in Freedom Township, this county, in 1839, and here cleared a farm and established a home. He was married March 9, 1845, to Almira Martin, of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, born in Vermont August 24, 1821, daughter of Reuben and Thankful (Bolton) Martin, natives respectively of Vermont and Connecticut, married at Rochester, Vt. They moved to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1834, thence to Lorain County, and in 1853 to Defiance, where they died, the father aged eighty-three, the mother eighty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Parker are the parents of two sons: Nathan and Elmore M.; they have an adopted daughter named Zella. Our subject is a stanch Republican.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885