I was born on a farm five miles southeast of Lake City. My parents were Tom
  and Silvia Warrington Parr. Father was born in Arkansas City and Mother in
  Iowa. they both came to Barber County in 1886.
     I spent part of my school days in the Mingona school and Forest City school.
  I went to Mingona to church when a small boy. The Reverend Shamberger lived
  nearby, and he did the preaching. Lots of young couples went to him to be
  married. The Forest City church was built, and it was there I attended my first
  wedding. George Lukens and Mable Garten and Claude Garten and Ida Rhodes were
  married in a double ceremony.
     Our winter sport was ice skating on the Medicine River. Cal and Al Parr,
  Oscar Martin, and I skated to town from the Larson place one afternoon.
     My father and two uncles ran a threshing machine for several years. I hauled
  water one year to a steam engine. The next year they couldn't find a cook to 
  feed the men, so I took the job for the cook shack. I cooked eighty five days
  and also baked bread every day during that time. I then went to Arkansas City
  and worked in the Santa Fe shops a year and a half. I came home and we moved to
  Harper County, where I spent part of my time.
     In 1922, Opal Bloom and I were married. We bought a farm whcih we lived in
  forty-five years. I farmed and did anything I could get to make a dollar. During
  the Dust Bowl days I took the job of loading out 8500 head of cattle for the
  government. I worked on U.S. 160 when they were building it for 2 years to help
  educate my family.
     I have 2 children, Harold and Peggy. Harold served in World War II. He
  married Bernadean Williams, and they have 4 children. Peggy was married to
  Delbert Zimmerman, and they have 2 children. Peggy is employed as a Teller at
  the First National Bank. We have 7 great-grandchildren.
     I served on the Ninnescah Rural Electric for seventeen years.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 359