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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 86743, member: 59"]Okie dokey. His full name was George Wentworth Parker Jr., born Oct 11, 1890 in Terre Haute to George Wentworth Sr. and Alice Plimpton Parker. In 1917 his WWI Draft Registration gives his occupation as "draughtsman and engineer" for the Eagle Iron Works. In the 1920 Census, he says he's a manager at the iron works. But by 1930, he says he is an artist. He died in Feb 1962 and there was an obit for him published on 21 Feb in the Terre Haute Tribune (in case you have access to it at work.) He apparently also went by Worth Parker.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a family tree for him on A, that has images of two "paintings" attached. One looks like a watercolor and the other something more opaque. Lovely! Not like this colored photograph at all. (Not that the photo isn't pleasant.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 86743, member: 59"]Okie dokey. His full name was George Wentworth Parker Jr., born Oct 11, 1890 in Terre Haute to George Wentworth Sr. and Alice Plimpton Parker. In 1917 his WWI Draft Registration gives his occupation as "draughtsman and engineer" for the Eagle Iron Works. In the 1920 Census, he says he's a manager at the iron works. But by 1930, he says he is an artist. He died in Feb 1962 and there was an obit for him published on 21 Feb in the Terre Haute Tribune (in case you have access to it at work.) He apparently also went by Worth Parker. There is a family tree for him on A, that has images of two "paintings" attached. One looks like a watercolor and the other something more opaque. Lovely! Not like this colored photograph at all. (Not that the photo isn't pleasant.)[/QUOTE]
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