From Memorial and Genealogical Record of Dodge and Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin, publ. 1894 - Page 218-219 CHARLES E. PARKS was born in the town of Morreau, Saratoga County, in the State of New York, September 12, 1846. He was a son of Hiram PARKS and Laura WOODWORTH - Hiram PARKS, son of Solomon PARKS and Susannah BURNHAM; Solomon PARKS, son of Daniel PARKS. The father of Daniel PARKS was born in Connecticut and moved to South Glens Falls, town of Morreau, New York State, some years before the Revolutionary War, and there purchased the Glen Patent of John Glen. The Glen Patent consisted of 6,000 acres of land, situated on the south side of the Hudson River and bounded on the north and east by the Hudson River and on the south and west by what was known as the Skew Line. This line started at a large boulder on the small island in the Hudson River at the head of Baker's Falls, and ran in a northwesterly course to Little Falls on the Hudson River. During the Revolutionary War, the father of Daniel PARKS, together with all of his family excepting three, was massacred at his residence in South Glens Falls by a party of Tories and Indians. All records and papers were destroyed and house and factory burned to the ground. Two daughters were carried into captivity by the Indians and no more was ever heard of them. Daniel PARKS, the only survivor, was in command of Fort George at the head of Lake George, and as soon as the news of the massacre reached him he started in pursuit of the Tories and Indians, and with a file of soldiers followed the party into Canada, and was quite satisfied that his sisters were not massacred but carried into captivity. At the close of the Revolution John Glen sent an agent from Canada and laid claim to the whole estate which had been bought and paid for, and Daniel PARKS who had fought throughout the whole Revolutionary War was left by that war a pauper, or at least a man without any means whatever, as John Glen proved his title to the estate and took it all. Daniel PARKs' son, Solomon, commenced life working in a saw mill at $5 per month; his wife, Susannah, bore him a family of sixteen children, thirteen of whom lived to man's estate. Notwithstanding the fact that he commenced life penniless where he should have commenced a wealthy man, he accumulated a large fortune, left his children in good circumstances, and died at the age of eighty-eight - his wife at the age of eighty-six. Daniel PARKS died at the age of ninety-four. Laura WOODWORTH, daughter of Abel WOODWORTH and Olive PARTRIDGE, was born at Norwich, Ct. The family consisted of four sons and four daughters. Laura was educated at Norwich. Her brothers were educated at Dartmouth College, and two of them afterward became professors of mathematics at same college, and one of them, Leonard Hartwell, is now living at Rock Falls, Ill., and is somewhere between ninety and ninety-five years old. Abel WOODWORTH was born in Connecticut. Hiram PARKS, son of Solomon PARKS and father of Charles E., was educated in the common schools of the town of Morreau. In early life he had charge of the toll road and ferry and toll bridge cross the Hudson River, owned by his father. He was also engaged in rope making in partnership with his father on the Morreau side of the Hudson opposite Sandy Hill, at the Morreau water power. this rope and hemp mill was taken down and a saw mill erected which was owned by Hiram PARKS, Cyrus BURNHAM and George SANFORD. He afterward leased his interest in the saw mill to his partners, and engaged for several years in supplying the Hudson River, the Harlem and part of the New York Central Railroads in timber, cross ties and fuel. He retired from business at the age of sixty and died at the age of seventy years. He never ran for any public office. Charles E. PARKS was educated at the Glens Falls Academy and at the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute. He commenced life as a civil engineer, but, not liking the business, he taught school one year, then engaged as clerk in a dry goods house at Sandy Hill, N.Y., for a short time, when he again entered the schoolroom as assistant principal and teacher of mathematics for two years. He came West in 1872 and was elected superintendent of Garnet, Kan., public schools, where he remained two years. He then went to Golden, Colo., where he became superintendent of Golden public schools, serving one year. He next went to Denver as superintendent of the north side schools, but returned the following year to Golden, where he remained a year and resigned his position and returned East. He finally came West again, making Watertown, Wis. his home. He married Lilla LEWIS, daughter of G. B. LEWIS. He has been engaged in the manufacturing business with G. B. LEWIS as partner for several years, and is now secretary and treasurer and half owner of the G. B. LEWIS Company at Watertown. He is the inventor of Parks' basket boxes and barrels and considerable amount of machinery. He ran for public offices and has been twice defeated; first time, running for school commissioner, when, after an experience of ten years in the schoolroom, leaving same at a salary of $1,500 and being offered $1,800 a year to continue, he was defeated by a man who could little more than read and write. He was defeated a second time when running for alderman. He has three children: Lewis W., aged thirteen years; Olive, aged eleven years, and Clifton A., aged nine years. Submitted by Carol