Santa Clara Biography
Major Lewis F. Parker
Was born in Highland county, Ohio, March 20,1824. When young he was taken by his parents to Indiana, whence, after a short residence, they moved to Fulton county, Illinois, where he lived until he attained the age of sixteen years. He then proceeded to Hendricks county, Indiana, and there received his education. Major Parker next moved to LaPorte county, and there resided until he started for California. September 1, 1850, he arrived in the Golden State, after having crossed the plains with pack-mules, and went to Georgetown, El Dorado county, where he remained but a short time; thence he removed to Horse-shoe Bend, on the middle fork of the American river, and commenced mining. These operations he continued for a year, when he transferred his location to Spanish Flat, in the same county, where he mined and kept a boarding-house until 1856. In this year he arrived in Santa Clara county, came direct to Almaden township, and settled on the ranch of three hundred and twenty acres which he now occupies, where he has a picturesquely situated and commodious residence, nestling at the mouth of a miniature canon in the western foothills. Mr. Lewis has served for eight years as Deputy Assessor, under D. M. Harwood and W. O. Barker. January 28,1865, was appointed Captain of Company K, First Cavalry, Second Brigade, California Militia, and served as such until November 1, 1867; when he was promoted to be junior Major of his Regiment, with rank from that date. He married in LaPorte county, Indiana, December 23, 1847, Julia Keith, who came to California in 1852, and has an only child, Elizabeth Nancy, born October 19,1853.
History of Santa Clara County, California,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, October, 2007 Page 557
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