The History of the Township and Village of Mazomanie, 
BY WILLIAM KITTLE, MADISON, WIS. 
STATE JOURNAL PRINTING CO. 1900.

WILLIAM S. PARR was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1842. 
Three years later he went to Boston, where he lived until 
1853, when the family came to a farm in Iowa county, Wis. 
He stayed there until 1893, when he moved to his present 
farm one mile west of the village. In 1862 he enlisted in 
Co. A of the 33d Infantry, and in 1865 was made second 
lieutenant of Co. I of the 52d Infantry. He was at the 
siege of Vicksburg, and wounded in Mississippi in 1864. In 
1877 he married Miss Lizzie Greening. They have one 
child--Edith. Mr. Parr has held the offices of supervisor 
and town clerk.

Submitted by Randi McCartney