History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 797.
[Nicholas County]  [Upper Blue Licks Precinct]

THOMPSON S. PARKS, farmer.  The history of Nicholas County would be
incomplete without a sketch of this, the oldest resident representative of
a family that has figured in the history of the county for nearly a
century.  His grandfather, John Parks, came to Pennsylvania from the North
of Ireland, about the year 1740, being at that time about seven years of
age; he married a Miss Galbreath, who was of Scotch birth, and who bore
him six children, five sons and one daughter.  He was a tailor by trade;
served throughout the Revolutionary War; came to Kentucky in 1788, and
settled at the mouth of Steele's Run near Millersburg.  James Parks, the
father of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, May 6, 1763; came to
Kentucky in 1788, having married in Pennsylvania, Miss Jane Entrikin, of
a very old and noted Scotch family.  Before he became of age, he was sent
to carry some clothing to his father in the Revolutionary war, and did
not return till [sic] the close of the war.  Upon his arrival in Kentucky,
he settled at the mouth of Steele's Run, where he remained for a short
time.  Moved to Carlisle in 1800, and engaged in farming and distilling;
removed to Licking River in 1804, locating at what is now termed Park's
Ferry, where he engaged in milling, pork packing and general merchandising
(see history of Fleming Creek and Cassidy Creek Mills).  He was a man of
remarkable business capacity, and did more perhaps, than any other man of
his day in developing the natural resources of his county.  He was not
without political honor, having been elected by the people of Bourbon
County, to the Lower House of the General Assembly in 1798.  He was in
the Senate from Fleming County continually, from 1806 to 1822, and was
once in the Senate from Nicholas and Bracken.  He died May 6, 1836, aged
exactly seventy-three years.  T. S. Parks, whose portrait appears in this
work, was born and raised where he now resides, at Park's Ferry.  Received
his early education at the academy in Paris, under the instruction of
Ebenezer Sharp; was a fair English, and at that day considered a good
Latin scholar.  Upon leaving the academy, he taught school for a couple
of years.  In 1828, he hired himself to George Robinson, to manage a
drove of hogs to Richmond.  In 1831, in connection with John N. Congleton
he purchased a half interest in the store of his brother-in-law, John
Carter, at Gill's Mills in Bath County; he afterward located at his
present farm, a magnificent estate of some 300 acres.  In his
seventy-seventh year, as President of the Washington Manufacturing and
Mining Company, he assumes a great part of the labor in managing their
extensive business.  Our subject was the eighth son and eleventh of
fourteen children.  On the 11th of January 1838, he married Elizabeth
Ingram Dorsey, daughter of John and Nancy Spires Dorsey, of Fleming County.
They have four children, all living, viz: Nancy Jane, Nancy Pickett,
married Rev. Joseph M. Scott, from Virginia, now living in Waverly,
Missouri; Cora B. married James T. Layman, prominent hardware merchant of
Indianapolis, Ind., of the firm of Layman & Cary; John Steele married
Elizabeth Howell, of Carlisle.  Col. Parks represented Nicholas and
Fleming Counties in the Legislature in 1851 and 1853; elected again in
1867, and served two years at which time he secured an appropriation of
$75,000 to pay for and remove the dams from Licking River, and thus
cleared it for navigation.  Had his views upon this subject been carried
out, it would no doubt been of great benefit to the counties lying
adjacent to that stream.  Mr. Parks is a thorough Democrat.  He claims
the Presbyterian Church as his choice, in which his father held the
office of elder for forty years, and of which all his family are members.

Parks Galbreath Entrikin Sharp Robinson Dorsey Scott Layman
Howell Congleton Carter
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