Biographical Sketch of

Thomas Parsons

Transcribed by Sandra Boudrou for the Marquette Co WI Pages


Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin, 
published 1890 by Acme Publishing Co., Chicago, Pages 731 - 732 


Thomas Parsons, a representative farmer of the town of Aurora, Waushara County, who resides on section 33, was born in 
Bedfordshire, England, in 1842, and was the second in a family of three children.  His parents, Joseph and Sarah (Hare) 
Parsons, were also natives of England.  The father was a farmer by occupation and followed that business in his native 
land until called to his final rest in 1852.  His wife still survives him and is living in England at the advanced age 
of eighty two years.  William, their eldest son, is still living in his native land; Thomas is the next in order of 
birth; and George, the youngest, died on the 23d of July, 1885.
 
The subject of this sketch passed his early life in much the usual manner of farmer lads and in the common schools of 
England acquired his education.  He remained in his native land until May, 1880, when at the age of thirty-two years, 
he crossed the broad Atlantic to seek a home in the New World.  He embarked at Liverpool and did not pause on reaching 
the shores of this country until he arrived in Berlin, Wis.  From friends who had settled in this neighborhood he had 
received favorable accounts of the country and determined to here make his home.  He first worked for nearly four years 
for D. Evans, Jr., in the town of Aurora, Waushara County, with whom he remained until arrangements could be made towards 
procuring a farm for himself.
 
In the fall of 1883 Mr. Parsons was united in marriage with Miss Martha Thomas, daughter of Hon. John H. Thomas, whose 
sketch appears on another page of this work, but after about four years of happy wedded life had passed, the wife was 
called to her final rest.  She died on the 3d of December, 1887, leaving a little son, Johnnie, aged two weeks.  In 1888 
Mr. Parsons was again married, his second union being with Miss Junietta Cleveland, a native of Wisconsin, born in 
Rushford Township, Winnebago County, in 1870.  They have one child, an infant son.
 
Although Mr. Parsons has been a resident of Waushara County but a few years, he has made many friends among its prominent 
and representative citizens and ranks among the leading farmers of the community.  He is liberal in his political views, 
but is an enterprising, progressive citizen, who gives his support to whatever tends to upbuild the county and aid in its 
progress and prosperity.






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