Parks tim biography of william

PARKS, WILLIAM, merchant; b. 11 Feb. 1800 at Buckley, County Monaghan (Republic of Ireland); m. Ann Hegan in Ireland, and they had five sons and two daughters; sailed late in 1870 from Halifax for Liverpool aboard the ss City of Boston, which disappeared.

Although the surviving record does not admit of a personal portrait of William Parks, it is sufficient to indicate that during the middle decades of the 19th century he was a leader in the commercial and religious affairs of Saint John, N.B., when that port was a centre of commerce in British North America.

Parks tim biography of william

Parks, somewhat typically for a prominent merchant of his day, had wide business interests. They extended from the operation of an import and retail establishment through shipowning and banking to the manufacturing of cotton.

William Parks had immigrated to New Brunswick in 1822 and settled in Saint John.

He apparently began in the grocery and dry goods business. In the early 1840s he went into shipow