Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Barren County.

HON. B MILLS PARRISH was born in Barren County, Ky., near the Hart
County line, August 23, 1836, and is the second child and only son in a
family of three children born to Parkes T. and Elizabeth (Duke) Parrish,
natives, respectively, of Louisa County, VA., and Barren County, Ky.,
and of English and French-Scotch descent.  Parkes T. Parrish, at the age
of eighteen, removed with his parents, accompanied by several other
families, to Barren County, Ky., and settled in the north part of the
county, near what is now the Hart County line.  Here his father
purchased wild lands, and subsequently improved a farm.  After attaining
his majority he went to Alabama, where he was employed as a foreman on a
cotton plantation for four years. He then returned to Barren County,
where he made his first purchase of wild land, and commenced to improve
a farm.  In the same year, 1823, he went to Attakapas Parish, La., where
he was employed as foreman on a sugar plantation for five years.  He
then returned to Kentucky, where he added other wild lands to his
original purchase, and subsequently improved the best farm in Barren
County, Ky.  In 1850 he started for California in company with a party
of some thirty of his neighbors - of which he was selected captain - to
seek a fortune.  From Independence, Mo., the party accomplished all of
the long journey across the great American desert on foot.  He
immediately engaged in mining, reaped a rich harvest, and continued the
same until his death, October 2, 1850.  He was buried upon the wharf at
San Francisco, where his remains still rest.  He was a veteran of the
war of 1812, having entered the service in his fifteenth year.  He and
wife were life-long members of the Baptist Church.  His father, Parkes
Parrish, the grandfather of our subject, was a veteran of the
Revolutionary war, and was among the pioneers to Barren County, Ky., to
which county he immigrated with his wife and twelve children in 1817.
Mrs. Elizabeth Parrish, the mother of our subject, departed this life
September 1, 1855, in her forty-seventh year.  Her father, George Duke,
also a native of the "Old Dominion," and one of the earliest pioneers of
Barren County, Ky., was also a veteran of the war of 1812, and a member
of the Baptist Church.  B. Mills Parrish received an excellent English,
scientific, mathematical and Latin education at the common schools, and
at Urania College, of Glasgow.  He now owns, and has always resided
upon, the old homestead, in the north part of Barren County, Ky., with
the exception of one year, when he was engaged in rehandling tobacco in
Louisville.  His farm of 400 acres is one of the most fertile and best
improved places in Barren County.  Mr. Parrish makes and has for many
years made the culture of both horses and cattle - a speciality.  He is,
without question, one of the most successful and best posted tobacco
growers and dealers in the State of Kentucky, having been extensively
engaged in buying and shipping tobacco to Louisville for twenty six
consecutive years.  At the tobacco celebration at Louisville in
September, 1885, he had on exhibition a tobacco plant measuring five
feet in height, with thirty-two perfect leaves.  He has been three times
a candidate for tobacco inspector at Louisville - a position which pays
about $8,000 per annum - and was each time beaten by only one vote.  In
1877 he was elected to represent Barren County in the Lower House of the
Kentucky Legislature over Dr. John D. Woods, one of the most popular men
of the county, and now State printer of Kentucky.  Mr. Parrish was
married August 26, 1857, to Miss Elizabeth E. Hare, a native of
Greensburg, Green Co., Ky., where she was born February 8, 1839.  She is
a daughter of William and Nancy (Maxey) Hare.  Four sons and one
daughter have blessed this union, all of whom are living: William W.,
Edmond P., Charles M., Robert b. and Jennie R.  Both Mr. Parrish and
wife and all of their children are members of the Christian Church, in
which church he has officiated as deacon for many years.  He is also a
member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the K. of H.  In politics he is
a Democrat.

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