Myron Park

Notes:

Myron Park, Canandaigua, son of Joel and Lydia Park, was born in East Bloomfield, January 24, 1812. He had a good education in the common schools, and when seventeen years of age he lived with his uncle for one year, then learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for eight years. He then bought a farm in Bristol, and after spending two years there sold out and bought a farm in East Bloomfield, where he spent two years. In 1841 he came to Canandaigua and bought a farm of 174 acres on lot fourteen, where he spent the balance of his life. Mr. Park always took an active interest in all good works, was charitable and liberal, and respected by all who knew him. In politics he was a Republican, and in religions a Protestant, having been a member of the Baptist Church about forty years. He married, February 8, 1835, Hannah B., daughter of John Harvey Wheeler, of East Bloomfield, and they had four children: Myron Alonzo died September 23, 1878, aged thirty-seven years; Henry O., a farmer of Canandaigua; Mary U. and Ellen M., who conduct the homestead farm. Myron Park died March 26, 1879.
(HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893)

Family/Spouse: Hannah Bowen Wheeler. Hannah (daughter of John Harvey Wheeler and Betsey Allen Lee) was born on 21 Oct 1816; died in 1905 in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]