Born: Knox County, Ohio, 1838.
Died: Galesburg, Illinois, 1906.
When a child he came with his father's family to Illinois. Was educated in the public schools and Berean Christian College at Jacksonville. He entered the active ministry at the age of nineteen, in which he continued forty-five years. He organized and built up the church at Putnam, which was his home. His ministry extended over the southern section of the Military Tract.
He served as State evangelist of Minnesota for several years, where his heroic work was fruitful of results that remain to this day. His faith was rich and strong, his life gentle and peaceable, his character beautiful and winsome. He gave himself heartily to the Restoration movement, although the active years of his life were passed on his farm, where most of his ten children grew up. Within eleven months he lost a son, a daughter, his farm and his wife. But then he said: "I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day."
Mins. J. E. and L. G. Parker are his sons.