Gaston, Joseph.  "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912."  Vol. 2. 
Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 275.
 
ARCHIE K. PARKER

     assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Joseph, was born in Auburn,
Sac county, Iowa, on October 15, 1888. He is a son of Gurdon M. and Lizzie J.
(Hicks) Parker, the father a native of Wisconsin and the mother of Canada. They
were married in Bloomington, Wisconsin, where Mrs. Parker was visiting an aunt,
and there they spent the first two years of their domestic life. At the
expiration of that time they crossed the prairies to Iowa, making the journey
with a wagon and horse team. Upon their arrival in that state they located in
Grant City, Sac. county, where the father established a mercantile business that
he conducted for several years. When the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Company, however, surveyed for their lines they located the proposed roadbed
about a mile from Grant City. Realizing that this would prevent the development
of the latter place, Mr. Parker and some of the other enterprising citizens
moved on to the railroad and founded the town of Auburn. There he continued to
conduct his store until recent years when he retired from active business life,
his only connection now being with the Farmers & Merchants Bank of which he is
one of the directors. He is one of the foremost citizens of Auburn, always
having assisted in promoting the development and up-building of the town by
giving his cooperation and indorsement to every progressive movement, that he
felt would advance the financial, intellectual, moral and social welfare of the
community. He has attained the rank of Knight Templar in the Masonic fraternity
and he is affiliated with the Presbyterian church in which the mother also holds
membership.
     The boyhood and youth of Archie K. Parker were passed at home, his early
education being acquired in the graded school of his native town and the high
school at Storm Lake. He was graduated from the latter in the spring of 1906 and
subsequently entered the Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames, where he
continued his studies for a year. From there he went to the Capital City
Commercial College at Des Moines, being graduated from the latter institution
with the class of 1908. Upon the completion of his commercial course he obtained
a position in the office of the Bankers' Life Association of that city, where he
was employed for nine months. He next entered the Century Savings Bank of Des
Moines in the capacity of clerk, but withdrew from this position at the end of
six months and in August, 1909, came to Joseph as assistant cashier of the First
National Bank. Mr. Parker is a young man of pleasing personality and
accommodating manner and is well liked by the patrons of the bank. In the
discharge of his duties he is painstaking and efficient and is recognized as an
able and thoroughly reliable young business man.
     Fraternally he is a member of Joseph Lodge, No. 81, A. F. & A. M., and of
Joseph Chapter, No. 67, O. E. S. He has the happy faculty of not only winning
but retaining the esteem of those with whom he comes in contact and during the
period of his residence here has made many friends.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in March 2008 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.