Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
NameWill H. PARRY 
Memo1865 census
OccupationFederal Trade Commission under Wilson; newspaperman; executive head Moran Bros. shipyard; City Controller
EducationColumbia University
ReligionEpiscopal
FatherWilliam M. PARRY (~1814->1880)
MotherCaroline Elizabeth GILLET (1836-1871)
Spouses
Birth6 Feb 1870, Pontiac, Livingston County, Illinois9022
Death13 Apr 1942, Herndon, Virginia9022
FatherByron PHELPS (1842-1934)
MotherHenrietta SKINNER (1845-1935)
Census notes for Will H. PARRY
1865 New York State Census, Monroe County, Pittsford, p. 40
dwelling 196, frame, $500, family 306
William Parry, age 50, male, head, born England, father of 5 children, 2 married, married, farmer
Caroline E. Parry, age 30, female, wife, born Monroe, 1 child married, married
John M., Parry age 23, male, child, born England, single, farmer
Anna L. Parry, age 19, female, child, born England, single, teacher
Albert W. Parry, age 7, male, child, born Monroe
Mary E. Parry, age 7, female, child, born Monroe
William Parry, age 11/12, male, child, born Monroe
1870 not found 12/2017
1880 Nebraska, Otoe County, Syracuse Town, E.D. 195, page 19B (taken 17-18 June 1880)
dwelling 77, family 96
Parry, Wm M., white, male, age 66, head, widowed, merchant, born England, parents born England
——-, John M., white, male, age 37, married, teacher, born England, parents born England
——-, Hellen, white, female, age 24, wife, married, housekeeper, born Indiana, father born Ohio, mother born Indiana
——-, Harold M., white, male, age 7, son, single, son, born Nebraska, father born England, mother born Indiana
——-, John M., white, male, age 3, son, single, son, born Nebraska, father born England, mother born Indiana
——-, Annie, white, female, age 30, sister, single, sister, born England, parents born England
——-, Emma M., white, female, age 21, sister, single, sister, born New York, parents born England
——-, William H., white, male, age 16, son, single, brother, born New York, parents born England
1900 Washington, King County, Seattle, ward 6, E.D. 105, sheet 17B (taken 14 Jun 1900)
2212 3rd Ave., dwelling 216, family 443
Parry, Will H., head, white, male, June 1864, age 35, married for 9 years, born New York, father born England, mother born New York, superintendent at ship works
——-, Harriet P., wife, white, female, Feb 1870, age 30, married for 9 years, mother of 3 children, 2 living, born Illinois, father born England, mother born Illinois
——-, Byron, son, white, male, Nov 1891, age 8, single, born Washington, father born New York, mother born Illinois, at school
——-, Thomas, son, white, male, Sep 1894, age 5, single, born Washington, father born New York, mother born Illinois, kindergarten
Phelps, Orin, son, white, male, Dec 1897, age 12, single, born Washington, father born New York, mother born Illinois, at school
Phelps, Etta, mother, white, female, Feb 1845, age 55, married for 35 years, mother of 5 children, 4 living, born England, parents born England
Phelps, Donna, sister, white, female, Apr, 1883, age 17, single, born Illinois, parents born England, at school.
Engdahl, Annie, lodger, white, female, Mar 1874, age 26, single, born Kansas, parents born Sweden, domestic servant
dwelling 196, frame, $500, family 306
William Parry, age 50, male, head, born England, father of 5 children, 2 married, married, farmer
Caroline E. Parry, age 30, female, wife, born Monroe, 1 child married, married
John M., Parry age 23, male, child, born England, single, farmer
Anna L. Parry, age 19, female, child, born England, single, teacher
Albert W. Parry, age 7, male, child, born Monroe
Mary E. Parry, age 7, female, child, born Monroe
William Parry, age 11/12, male, child, born Monroe
1870 not found 12/2017
1880 Nebraska, Otoe County, Syracuse Town, E.D. 195, page 19B (taken 17-18 June 1880)
dwelling 77, family 96
Parry, Wm M., white, male, age 66, head, widowed, merchant, born England, parents born England
——-, John M., white, male, age 37, married, teacher, born England, parents born England
——-, Hellen, white, female, age 24, wife, married, housekeeper, born Indiana, father born Ohio, mother born Indiana
——-, Harold M., white, male, age 7, son, single, son, born Nebraska, father born England, mother born Indiana
——-, John M., white, male, age 3, son, single, son, born Nebraska, father born England, mother born Indiana
——-, Annie, white, female, age 30, sister, single, sister, born England, parents born England
——-, Emma M., white, female, age 21, sister, single, sister, born New York, parents born England
——-, William H., white, male, age 16, son, single, brother, born New York, parents born England
1900 Washington, King County, Seattle, ward 6, E.D. 105, sheet 17B (taken 14 Jun 1900)
2212 3rd Ave., dwelling 216, family 443
Parry, Will H., head, white, male, June 1864, age 35, married for 9 years, born New York, father born England, mother born New York, superintendent at ship works
——-, Harriet P., wife, white, female, Feb 1870, age 30, married for 9 years, mother of 3 children, 2 living, born Illinois, father born England, mother born Illinois
——-, Byron, son, white, male, Nov 1891, age 8, single, born Washington, father born New York, mother born Illinois, at school
——-, Thomas, son, white, male, Sep 1894, age 5, single, born Washington, father born New York, mother born Illinois, kindergarten
Phelps, Orin, son, white, male, Dec 1897, age 12, single, born Washington, father born New York, mother born Illinois, at school
Phelps, Etta, mother, white, female, Feb 1845, age 55, married for 35 years, mother of 5 children, 4 living, born England, parents born England
Phelps, Donna, sister, white, female, Apr, 1883, age 17, single, born Illinois, parents born England, at school.
Engdahl, Annie, lodger, white, female, Mar 1874, age 26, single, born Kansas, parents born Sweden, domestic servant
Obituary notes for Will H. PARRY
New York Times 22 April 1917
WILL H. PARRY DEAD.; Vice Chairman of Federal Trade Commission Dies After Operation.
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WASHINGTON, April 21.--Will H. Parry of Seattle, Vice Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, died at a hospital here late today from the effects of an operation performed a week ago.
Mr. Parry had been in poor health for some months and overwork had made his condition worse. When President Wilson learned he was to go to the hospital he assigned his own personal physician, Dr. Cary T. Grayson, as a consultant.
An operation was performed for gallstones, and for the first few days it appeared he had a more than even chance for recovery. His heart began to weaken Friday, however, and it was seen he could not live.
Commission Feels Loss.
In the death of Mr. Parry the Trade Commission loses one of its most valuable and active members. He personally directed many of its economic investigations. Recently he had given his whole time to the commission’s news print inquiry, and , his physicians said, injured himself by a too close application to his task. The commission’s lumber investigation also was conducted under his direction.
Mr. Parry was born in New York City in 1864. After graduation from Columbia University he went West and engaged in newspaper work in Oregon and Washington. Later he was elected City Controller of Seattle, and in that office revised the city’s finances, started municipal improvements and established a municipal water plant.
Battleship Nebraska Built
Later Mr. Parry became manager of the Moran Shipbuilding Company, of Seattle. One of his accomplishments was the construction of the battleship Nebraska. Mr. Parry was credited with being one of the originators of scientific management in business. One of his chief hobbies was system in business administration.
Mr. Parry also was manager of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle.
Mr. Parry was a Progressive, and in the West had taken an active interest in National and state government.
Several Fields Entered
Mr. Parry, Battleship Builder, Exposition Manager, Politician, Etc.
Seattle, April 21. - Will H. Parry was appointed a member of the Federal Trade Commission in January 1915, as a Progressive. He had been a strong supporter of Roosevelt for President in 1912. Mr. Parry was 53 years old, and came to Seattle early in 1889 from the Willamette Valley, Oregon, where he had published a newspaper and where he also had been a reporter on Salem papers. He obtained a position as reporter on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and remained with that paper several years, becoming city editor. He was appointed City Controller by his father-in-law, Mayor Byron Phelps, and was influential in the establishment of the Cedar River water system.
Mr. Parry was executive head of the Moran Bros.’ shipyard when it built the battleship Nebraska, and was chairman of the committee that raised in one day the $500,000 capital stock of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific World’s Exposition, which was held in Seattle in 1909.
Mr. Parry’s energy in Washington in directing, as representative of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the campaign for passage of the Alaska Railroad bill through Congress attracted the favorable notice of President Wilson, and when, shortly afterward, Congress created the Federal Trade Commission, the President offered a place on it to the Seattle organizer.
Mr. Parry leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter.
Papers Operated in Oregon
Brother of Will H. Parry Is Resident of Moro.
Will H. Parry was a former Oregon newspaper man. He was editor of the Corvallis Independent, and worked on the Salem Statesman for some time. This was in the ‘80s. He also operated a syndicate of newspapers in the Willamette Valley. One of these was the Independence West Side, and another paper in Salem was controlled by him, as well as publications in other Valley cities. The chain system of publications failed, however, and it was in 1889 that he left Oregon and went to Seattle.
A brother, John F. Parry, lives at Moro, Or.
Lawrence F. Hodges, of The Oregonian editorial staff, knew Mr. Parry intimately in Seattle. “He had a great capacity for work,” said Mr. Hodges. “He used to do a lot of it, and one could not help but wonder how he accomplished it all. He was an extremely loyal friend, and a highly companionable man as well.”
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Uncited newspaper
Will H. Parry
The death of Will H. Parry removes a man who made his mark in the history of the Pacific Northwest before he became a National figure as a member of the Federal Trade Commission. He was one of the ablest, most brilliant and most industrious newspapermen on the Coast. One of his earliest experiences was as editor and proprietor of a string of newspapers in the Willamette Valley, which kept him constantly on the go, but he gave his subscribers a better article than they paid for and disaster was the result. He went to Seattle “broke” and was employed as a reporter on the Post-Intelligencer. Within a year after his arrival there he was made city editor, and gathered around him as good and loyal a staff of reporters as any city on this coast has been able to recruit.
During that period a trial was in progress in Tacoma in which Seattle was deeply interested, and Parry undertook to report it himself. For a week he went to Tacoma on the first train or boat, made a full report, which often filled a page, returned to Seattle in the evening, prepared his copy, read proof to insure that not a single “bull” should slip through, snatched two or three hours’ sleep and repeated the performance next day. When the trial ended he was completely exhausted, but he stayed with it to the end.
His independent spirit was manifested in boyhood, when he was employed on the staff of a New York newspaper. Discovering that he was drawing more salary than other men who were obviously worth more, he investigated and learned that his father was secretly paying his salary into the office to be paid over to him, just to get him started to work and to keep him busy. He revolted at this arrangement, quit the job and came to Oregon.
One secret of his success was his faculty for winning men’s personal loyalty. He looked for a man to do more than hold down his job; he expected a man to stand by him as a personal matter and, if a man transferred his services to another paper, Parry regarded it as desertion. But he was loyal in his turn, and if any person insulted or deceived one of his men, Parry would “go down the line” for him.
He early showed ability as a politician, and by it entered a broader field, but he proved his title to every public office he held by his industry and by the high quality and fidelity of the service he gave. If he had lived, he should have held still more important positions in the National Government, and he would have made good, as he did with everything he tackled after leaving Oregon. Generous, genial, yet a fighter, he counted his friends by the thousand, and he exacted respect even from his enemies.
WILL H. PARRY DEAD.; Vice Chairman of Federal Trade Commission Dies After Operation.
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WASHINGTON, April 21.--Will H. Parry of Seattle, Vice Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, died at a hospital here late today from the effects of an operation performed a week ago.
Mr. Parry had been in poor health for some months and overwork had made his condition worse. When President Wilson learned he was to go to the hospital he assigned his own personal physician, Dr. Cary T. Grayson, as a consultant.
An operation was performed for gallstones, and for the first few days it appeared he had a more than even chance for recovery. His heart began to weaken Friday, however, and it was seen he could not live.
Commission Feels Loss.
In the death of Mr. Parry the Trade Commission loses one of its most valuable and active members. He personally directed many of its economic investigations. Recently he had given his whole time to the commission’s news print inquiry, and , his physicians said, injured himself by a too close application to his task. The commission’s lumber investigation also was conducted under his direction.
Mr. Parry was born in New York City in 1864. After graduation from Columbia University he went West and engaged in newspaper work in Oregon and Washington. Later he was elected City Controller of Seattle, and in that office revised the city’s finances, started municipal improvements and established a municipal water plant.
Battleship Nebraska Built
Later Mr. Parry became manager of the Moran Shipbuilding Company, of Seattle. One of his accomplishments was the construction of the battleship Nebraska. Mr. Parry was credited with being one of the originators of scientific management in business. One of his chief hobbies was system in business administration.
Mr. Parry also was manager of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle.
Mr. Parry was a Progressive, and in the West had taken an active interest in National and state government.
Several Fields Entered
Mr. Parry, Battleship Builder, Exposition Manager, Politician, Etc.
Seattle, April 21. - Will H. Parry was appointed a member of the Federal Trade Commission in January 1915, as a Progressive. He had been a strong supporter of Roosevelt for President in 1912. Mr. Parry was 53 years old, and came to Seattle early in 1889 from the Willamette Valley, Oregon, where he had published a newspaper and where he also had been a reporter on Salem papers. He obtained a position as reporter on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and remained with that paper several years, becoming city editor. He was appointed City Controller by his father-in-law, Mayor Byron Phelps, and was influential in the establishment of the Cedar River water system.
Mr. Parry was executive head of the Moran Bros.’ shipyard when it built the battleship Nebraska, and was chairman of the committee that raised in one day the $500,000 capital stock of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific World’s Exposition, which was held in Seattle in 1909.
Mr. Parry’s energy in Washington in directing, as representative of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the campaign for passage of the Alaska Railroad bill through Congress attracted the favorable notice of President Wilson, and when, shortly afterward, Congress created the Federal Trade Commission, the President offered a place on it to the Seattle organizer.
Mr. Parry leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter.
Papers Operated in Oregon
Brother of Will H. Parry Is Resident of Moro.
Will H. Parry was a former Oregon newspaper man. He was editor of the Corvallis Independent, and worked on the Salem Statesman for some time. This was in the ‘80s. He also operated a syndicate of newspapers in the Willamette Valley. One of these was the Independence West Side, and another paper in Salem was controlled by him, as well as publications in other Valley cities. The chain system of publications failed, however, and it was in 1889 that he left Oregon and went to Seattle.
A brother, John F. Parry, lives at Moro, Or.
Lawrence F. Hodges, of The Oregonian editorial staff, knew Mr. Parry intimately in Seattle. “He had a great capacity for work,” said Mr. Hodges. “He used to do a lot of it, and one could not help but wonder how he accomplished it all. He was an extremely loyal friend, and a highly companionable man as well.”
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Uncited newspaper
Will H. Parry
The death of Will H. Parry removes a man who made his mark in the history of the Pacific Northwest before he became a National figure as a member of the Federal Trade Commission. He was one of the ablest, most brilliant and most industrious newspapermen on the Coast. One of his earliest experiences was as editor and proprietor of a string of newspapers in the Willamette Valley, which kept him constantly on the go, but he gave his subscribers a better article than they paid for and disaster was the result. He went to Seattle “broke” and was employed as a reporter on the Post-Intelligencer. Within a year after his arrival there he was made city editor, and gathered around him as good and loyal a staff of reporters as any city on this coast has been able to recruit.
During that period a trial was in progress in Tacoma in which Seattle was deeply interested, and Parry undertook to report it himself. For a week he went to Tacoma on the first train or boat, made a full report, which often filled a page, returned to Seattle in the evening, prepared his copy, read proof to insure that not a single “bull” should slip through, snatched two or three hours’ sleep and repeated the performance next day. When the trial ended he was completely exhausted, but he stayed with it to the end.
His independent spirit was manifested in boyhood, when he was employed on the staff of a New York newspaper. Discovering that he was drawing more salary than other men who were obviously worth more, he investigated and learned that his father was secretly paying his salary into the office to be paid over to him, just to get him started to work and to keep him busy. He revolted at this arrangement, quit the job and came to Oregon.
One secret of his success was his faculty for winning men’s personal loyalty. He looked for a man to do more than hold down his job; he expected a man to stand by him as a personal matter and, if a man transferred his services to another paper, Parry regarded it as desertion. But he was loyal in his turn, and if any person insulted or deceived one of his men, Parry would “go down the line” for him.
He early showed ability as a politician, and by it entered a broader field, but he proved his title to every public office he held by his industry and by the high quality and fidelity of the service he gave. If he had lived, he should have held still more important positions in the National Government, and he would have made good, as he did with everything he tackled after leaving Oregon. Generous, genial, yet a fighter, he counted his friends by the thousand, and he exacted respect even from his enemies.