Randall Parrish

Background

Parrish, Randall was born on June 10, 1858 in Henry Company, Illinois, United States. Son of Rufus P. and Frances A. (Hollis) Parrish.

Education

Student of University of Iowa (Doctor of Humane Letters, 1911).

Career

Admitted to bar in Iowa. Practiced at Wichita, Kansas, 1879-1883. Prospected in Arizona and New Mexico, 1883-1885.

Later in newspaper work on daily papers in Denver.

Omaha, Sioux City and Chicago, and as manager country papers in Nebraska and Illinois. More recently in special commercial journalism in Chicago.

Author: When Wilderness Was King, 1904. My Lady of the North, 1904.

Historic Illinois, 1905.

Beth Norvell, 1907. My Lady of the South, 1909. Keith of the Border, 1910.

Gordon Craig, 1912; Beyond the Frontier, 1915.

The Strange Case of Cavendish, 1919. Comrades of Peril, 1919. Mystery of the Silver Dagger, 1920.

Gift of the Desert, 1921.

Home: Kewanee, Illinois.

Achievements

• Randall Parrish has been listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Rose Tyrrell, August 6, 1902.

Father:

Rufus P. Parrish

Mother:

Frances A. (Hollis) Parrish

Spouse:

Rose Tyrrell