When Gerald Earle Parker was born on 8 April 1896, in Henderson, Mills, Iowa, United States, his father, Frank John Parker, was 24 and his mother, Anna Sophia Hicks, was 20. He married Marie S Bushey on 31 August 1922, in Box Butte, Nebraska, United States. He lived in King, Washington, United States in 1950 and Tukwila, King, Washington, United States in 1956. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 31 March 1975, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 78.
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The Klondike gold rush started in 1896 in Canada, but by 1897 as miners started moving and following the gold it caused for Seattle to rapidly grow as more miners joined the search for gold.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
English: occupational name from Middle English parker ‘park-keeper’ (Old French parquier, parchier), an officer employed to look after deer and other game in a hunting park (see Park 1). This surname is also very common among African Americans. It has also been recorded since medieval times in Ireland.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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