The Parkinson Collection is a large body of correspondence, clippings, family charts and obituaries collected by John W. Parkinson and donated to the Newark Public Library on 30 November 1956 by his wife, Ruth, after his death.

The collection was received by the library in open cartons with little or no organization. Mrs. Paul Scheffler set to work organizing it for the next 14 years, while Mary Pierce was Head Librarian, and did not finish it. [Mrs. Scheffler had served Licking County at the Historical Society, Probate Court, Chamber of Commerce, and as genealogy consultant for the library from 1953 to 1963]. She welcomed the help of Mr. M. E. Barton of Painsville, Ohio, who was familiar with Parkinson genealogy. Mr. Barton stated that Ruth "inferred that all the papers of any value had been turned over to the library, and that a few boxes of miscellaneous clippings about Parkinsons were all that had been given to the Historical Society."

Further assistance in sorting the collection was obtained from Mrs. Carl Main, who was in charge of the Genealogical Library at Western Reserve.*

*[All the information above is taken from a letter written by Mrs. Paul Scheffler, State Chairman, American Heritage, Ohio Society DAR, to Dorothy Billett, dated 22 September 1977, and is located in File #1 of the collection].

The material in the collection is broad in scope, encompassing Parkinson families and related lines from many states and from Europe. There is an accompanying collection of OBITUARIES that covers 1927 to 1953, taken from several newspapers. These include many clippings on social issues of the 1930's and 1940's, especially World War II. Sadly, many of these topical clippings have vanished.

In lieu of thorough indexing of the collection, which has not yet been done, but with the intention of making it more accessible to researchers, all the folders have been numbered and their headings indexed. This was accomplished in 1999. The following index represents only the folder headings, not all the contents. The numbers after the headings refer to folder numbers.

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PARKINSON FOLDER INDEX

Alspach, 14, 15

Artz, 190

Ashbrook, 16

Bane, 17

Beach, 18

Beatty, 19, 20

Beech, 18

Beery, 21

Belt, 22

Biggs, 20

Binckey, 23

Binckley, 23

Bixler, 24

Bline, 25

Bonham, 26

Boring, 27

Bowers, 28, 32

Bradford, 29

Brice, 30

Brooke, 31

Bruce, 20

Brunner, 32

Buckingham, 32

Bures, 32

Burnsides, 52

Camp, 190

Canfield, 33, 171

Carpenter, 48

Channel, 34

Chapeleer, 55

Chopson, 35

Christian, 36, 92

Christy, 11, 37, 38, 39, 40

Church, 41

Clopton, 36

Close, 20

Coffman, 42

Collier, 36

Cooper, 43

Cooperider, 44

Cotterman, 45

Courson, 46

Crawmer, 47

Crist, 48

Croasdale, 49

Cummins, 48

Daugherty, 50

Debolt, 51

Deltzell, 52

Dickey, 11

Dickey-Tuttle, 53

Dixon, 54

Dodd, 55

Dudgeon, 56

Duke, 57

Dumbald, 58

Duncan, 53

Dunn, 11

Dustimer, 59

Effinger, 60

Fairall, 61

Faughts, 52

Fleek, 62

Flory, 62

Forry, 63

Foulk, 64, 65

Fountain, 136

Francis, 89

Franklin, 66

Friesner, 68

Fromm, 67, 68

Fry, 69

Fulk, 70

Fulton, 71

Gieseck, 72

Gloyd, 73

Green, 74

Gutridge, 75, 89

Hall, 76

Harrison, 77

Hatch, 65

Hays, 48, 78

Herron, 42

Hisey, 79

Hivey, 80, 81

Holcomb, 82

Holder, 83

Howe, 84

Howell, 85

Hoyt, 86

Hupp, 87

Ice, 88

Iden, 89

Iles, 90

Johnson, 108

Ketner, 190

King, 15

Laisure, 91

Lamb, 92

Lamp, 93

Lansing, 33

Latimer, 94

Lemley, 190

Levingston, 95

Lingafelter, 96

Lippincott, 97

Lockwood, 33

Lynn, 98

McAfee, 99

McClelland, 100, 137

McDougal, 101

Mack, 102

Mechling, 103

Meek, 104

Miller, 11, 51

Milligan, 101

Milliken, 190

Mitchell, 105

Morrow, 190

Neel, 106

Neff, 81, 159

Newcomb, 107

Noe, 108

Orr, 109

Overmyer, 17, 110

Pace, 111

Parkinson, 1, 2, 17, 51, 110, 112-154, 156, 188, 190

Parr, 155

Paul, 156

Peck, 190

Poorman, 157

Pratt, 49, 191

Ralston, 152

Richter, 158

Richtly, 159

Ridenour, 160

Rightly, 81

Robb, 161

Robinson, 138, 162

Rousculp, 163

Salt, 159

Salts, 81

Seibel, 164

Setzer, 165

Shackelford, 166

Shaffer, 15

Shelley, 167

Shrider, 168

Slack, 190

Snedaker, 55

Snelling, 169

Souslin, 170

Spahr, 139

Spangler, 190

Spellman, 171

Spelman, 33

Spicer, 172

Staples, 190

Starkey, 173

Staufinger, 174

Stechel, 175

Stickel, 175

Stickle, 176

Stickley, 177

Strawn, 51

Swinehart, 178

Thrall, 179

Tipton, 180

Trout, 181

Tuttle, 182

Ward, 65

Warne, 137, 183

Webb, 184

Westbrook, 185, 186

Whitmer, 187

Whitter, 188

Wilcox, 189

Winter, 190

Wright, 191

Yost, 192

Young, 193

Zartman, 194