Lowell Holden Parker was an

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attorney, banker and manufacturer from Beloit,

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who served a single term as a Republican member of the

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in 1899. His father, Charles H. Parker, had held the same Assembly seat, first as a Republican, but later as a Greenback. Born in

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, on November 30, 1848, Parker went to

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and then graduated from the

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in 1875. He practiced law in Beloit, Wisconsin. Park served on the Beloit School Board. He was involved with manufacturing of harvesters and binders. He was also in the banking business. Parker died on December 12, 1937, in

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at age 89.'Commemorative Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Counties, Wisconsin, 1901, Biographical Sketch of L. Holden Parker, pg. 86-87

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