Background
He married Laura E. Clark (1890-1962), a daughter of Reverend and Mistress M. A. Clark, a former Methodist missionary to the Comanches.
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White Parker
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He studied for the ministry at Cook Bible School in Phoenix, Arizona.
Career
They had at least three children: Patty Bertha, Cynthia Ann Joy, and Milton Quanah (1914-1930). White Parker did Christian missionary work among the Comanche people. After graduation, Parker joined the Methodist Conference.
The Parkers were active in the 1920s and "30s Saturday afternoon street meetings in Lawton, Oklahoma, which was led by Review
J. Leighton Read, a European-American missionary from Colony, Oklahoma. Parker had a varied religious background.
In 1920, Parker played a lead role in the silent film The Daughter of Dawn, a silent film directed by Norbert A. Myles shot in the Wichita Mountains of Southwest Oklahoma. The story, played by an all-Indian cast of 300 Kiowas and Comanches, includes themes of love story, battle, dance, deceit, combat, and concludes with a happy ending.
This is a historically important film in American cinema as it is the first full-length movie of an American Indian story, and that uses all American Indian actors.
The film was restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society and has been digitized.
