Chief Parks of Hannibal Dead
Chief T. B. Parks, for forty-four years head of the Fire Department in Hannibal, Mo., died in the Levering Hospital at the age of seventy-two. He had been in failing health during the past three years.
He was born in Louisiana, Mo., but while a small boy, he and his parents moved to Hannibal. Chief Parks entered the fire service in 1875 as a minute man. He was promoted to hoseman and made head of the department in 1887.
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