Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor.  "Washington: West of the Cascades."  Vol. 
III.  Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917.  p. 9-10.

CHARLES H. PARK

	Charles H. Park, who since November, 1908 has been supervisor in charge of
the forestry service of the Bellingham district, has resided in the northwest
from early boyhood although born in Fairmount Spring, Pennsylvania, June 13,
1872.  He is a son of Charles N. and Elizabeth R. Park, the former a native of
Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared and educated and afterward
engaged in farming, following that pursuit in his native locality until 1877,
when he removed to Cottonwood, Kansas, where he engaged in farming for six
months.  On the expiration of that period he became a resident of Gunnison
county, Colorado, where he was employed on a ranch until 1880.  He next became a
surveyor for the United States government in Colorado and afterward went to
Whatcom, now Bellingham, Washington, where he continued in the same line of work
and also carried on farming near the city.  In 1894 he returned to Colorado,
settling at Hot Springs, where soon afterward he passed away.  He was married in
Fairmount Springs, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth R. Harrison on the 4th of July,
1871, and they became the parents of six children: Charles H.; Daisy R. and
Hattie, both deceased; Eppyphras, a resident of Fort Benton, Montana; Frances
E., who is teaching in Montana; and Mrs. Rosie A. Smoot, also of Fort Benton.
	Charles H. Park was a little lad of but five years when his parents removed
with their family to Colorado, where he attended the district schools until he
reached the age of twelve years.  The family home was then established in
Bellingham, Washington, where he was again a public school pupil for a year.  He
afterward wored upon his father's farm until he reached the age of seventeen
years and still later, anxious to improve his education, he attended the normal
school in Lynden, Washington, in which he pursued his studies to the age of
nineteen years.  He afterward took up the profession of teaching, which he
followed in Whatcom county for four years, and in the end of that period he
turned his attention to the shingle business, in which he was engaged until
April 1, 1907.  He afterward entered the United States forestry service as
assistant supervisor in that department and in November, 1908 he was appointed
supervisor in charge of the Bellingham district, which position he now occupies.
He is making an excellent record by the prompt and able manner in which he
discharges his duties, and he thoroughly understands and meets the demands of
the position.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen