Biography on john p parker inventions

JohnP.[uncertain]Parker

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

[spouse(s) unknown]

Father of Cassius Parker, Hale Giddings Parker and Hortense (Parker) Gilliam

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Biography

John Parker was a former slave who became a conductor of the Underground Railroad in Ripley, Ohio for fifteen years, helping hundreds of slaves to freedom.

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Parker--we cannot say with any certainty that his middle name was Percival-- was born into slavery in Norfolk, Virginia in April of 1826^[1] to an enslaved black mother and a wealthy white father. When he was 8 years old, he was sold to a doctor in Mobile, Alabama.

His owner's sons taught him to read and write; the doctor later apprenticed him to an