Erastus PARKER Family of Olean. From: Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus County, N.Y. edited by William Adams, 1893. p. 916
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Erastus Parker. son of Robert and Betsey (Brooks) Parker, was born in Orleans
county, Vt., Aug. 16, 1807. His father was a Revolutionary soldier. His
mother died in Essex, Vt., and in 1813 the family settled in Clinton county,
N. Y. At the age of seventeen he went to Ohio and subsequently to Michigan,
Indiana, and Chautauqua county, N. Y. In 1848 he removed with his family to
Olean and settled on the south hank of the Allegheny, where he still resides.
Aided by his sons John B. and Allen he also bought with his son-in-law, Asa
F. Burlingame, a tract of timber land and they were quite extensive
lumbermen. Mr. Parker is a Republican and has been for fifteen years overseer
of the poor. Aug. 31, 1828, he married Marra Bartlett in Michigan. She was
born in New Hampshire, March 27, 1808. Children: Emeline (Mrs. Asa
Burlingame); John B., born July 26, 1832, married, in Jan., 1859, Sarah N.
Van Valkenburg, of Olean, and has five sons and a daughter; Allen (deceased),
born March 22, 1834, married Emma Lott (deceased), and had a son and two
daughters; Laura, born April 2, 1836, the widow of John Nelson; Alinda (Mrs.
Addie Randall); Electa, born Aug. I, 1843, married Wm. Farr.