Note: I will be adding transcripts as people contribute them (volunteers needed for transcribing—contact Ben Parkinson, webmaster). If you have additional histories of William or other family members, I would like to add those too.

William

• Benson Y. Parkinson, “William Brigham Parkinson Sr. (1852–1920),” (January 2005), illustrated. Based on all the other histories and including quite a bit of original research. Note: This adds information on Margaret and Louisa missing from the December 2004 version.
• HTML version. Convenient for online reading.
• PDF version. Formatted for printing (20 pages). Download this high-quality version for printing copies for your family or saving in your file cabinets. (7 megabytes)
Permission granted to family members to use this history in your own not-for-profit family history publications. Please drop me a line to let me know how you’re using it. All others write for permission.

• Lorna England Bingham, "History of William Brigham Parkinson, Sr. M.D." Lorna is a granddaughter. Written I believe for the DUP in June 1962. Transcript courtesy of Jared Parkinson.

• "William Brigham Parkinson, Sr., M.D.," in Noble Warrum, ed., Utah Since Statehood: Historical and Biographical (1919), (medical section edited by W. Brown Ewing), 187–88. Complements (and sometimes contradicts) Lorna's version. Transcript courtesy of Ben Parkinson.

• Excerpts from Maud Grant Alexander, Uncle Dave Discovers Gold, Pendleton, Oregon: East Oregonian Publishing Company, 1972. Early history of William and his parents, by a descendant of his stepmother Mary Ann Nutman. Discovered by cousin Ron Wiser. Transcript courtsey of Ben Parkinson.

• "Funeral and Obituary of Dr. William B. Parkinson, Logan Journal, 15 Nov 1920. Typescript by David P. Parkinson. Includes a fairly detailed biographical note. Transcript courtesy of Ben Parkinson

• "Pioneer Logan Physician Dies," Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Nov. 1920.

• Karma Parkinson Parkinson, "Memories of William Brigham and Edith Benson Parkinson," excerpted from Autobiography of Karma Parkinson Parkinson (1979), 5–9. Karma is a daughter. PDF only.

• Karma Benson Parkinson, Oral Interview, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, interviewed 9 Aug. 1978 by Tillman S. Boxell, 22 pages, used by permission. Transcript courtesy of Ben Parkinson.

• W. B. Parkinson, Letter to Millennial Star, 7 Jul 1879 vol. 41, no. 28 (Mon., 14 July 1879), pp. 437–38; good glimpse of William's mission. Transcript courtesy of Ben Parkinson.

• W. B. Parkinson, Letter to Millennial Star, 10 Sep 1879 vol. 41, no. 38 (Mon., 22 Sept. 1879), pp. 605–6; another glimpse of William's mission. Transcript courtesy of Ben Parkinson.

• Dr. W. B. Parkinson, Sen., M.D., "Alcohol: Its Effect on the Human Body," a lecture before the parents' classes of Logan, Utah. Improvement Era, vol. 18, no. 1 (Jan. 1915), pp. 221–30.

• William B. Parkinson, Letter to Mrs. M. J. Ballard, 26 Nov. 1913, regarding Louie; courtesy of Eugene Sloan.

• Robert T. Divett, "Utah's First Medical College," Utah Historical Quarterly, 31:1 (winter 1963), pp. 51–59, used by permission. Information on the school in Morgan where William received his first medical training. Quotes "That Medical College: A Bishop Endorses the Institution," a letter to the editor from William Brigham Parkinson, from Salt Lake Daily Herald, 30 July 1882, p. 1.

• William Brigham Parkinson Sr., M.D., "My Creed." William had this printed on cards, which he gave to friends. Courtesy of Mary Etta Parkinson. Transcript courtesy of Ben Parkinson.

Elizabeth

• Lorna England Bingham Olsen, "Elizabeth Bull," 2 pages, good detail—a good supplement also to Lorna's history of William. Transcript courtesy of Ben Parkinson.

Clarissa

• Hazel Parkinson McAlister, "Clarissa Taggart Parkinson," 1 page, brief but with interesting detail. Transcript courtesy of Ben Parkinson.
• Spencer L. Taggart, "Early Taggarts in Cache Valley," Taggart Family Newsletter, vol. 11 (June 1992), 2–5, drawn largely from Lorna England's history of William, but with added details about Clarissa. Transcript courtesy of Robin Parkinson.

Edith

• Benson Y. Parkinson, “Edith Benson Parkinson (1867–1925),” (January 2005), illustrated. Note: This has been retypeset but differs in wording only slightly from the December 2004 edition.
• HTML version. Convenient for online reading.
• PDF version. Formatted for printing (8 pages). Download this high-quality version for printing copies for your family or saving in your file cabinets. (2.3 megabytes)
Permission granted to family members to use this history in your own not-for-profit family history publications. Please drop me a line to let me know how you’re using it. All others write for permission.

• Clara R. Ward, Interview on Margaret and Louie Sloan Parkinson, conducted by Sylvia Bailey; courtesty of Eugene Sloan.
• William B. Parkinson, Letter to Mrs. M. J. Ballard, 26 Nov. 1913, regarding Louie; courtesy of Eugene Sloan.

Kids

Please see their individual web pages:

• Elizabeth's children
• Clarissa's children
• Edith's children
• Margaret's children

• Maud Grant Alexander, "Mrs. David S. Littlefield," in Uncle Dave Discovers Gold, Pendleton, Oregon: East Oregonian Publishing Company, 1972. History of William's stepmother Mary Ann Nutman. (See above for Maud's version of William's history.) Discovered by cousin Ron Wiser. PDF only.
  • Part 1 (367 K)
  • Part 2 (345 K)

• Alice Boyd, comp., "John Alexander Cameron," William's uncle. Information also on his Aunt Alice Parkinson Cameron, and a mention of William. Includes also George Henry Southam, "A Brief Story of the Life of My Grandfather, John Alexander Cameron," written about 1950; and Nola Cornia Jackson, submitter, "Cameron-Jackson History," in Steven L. Thomson, Jane D. Digerness, and Mar Jean S. Thomson, Randolph—A Look Back (1981), 272.
  • Click here for original on Alice Boyd's Site

• Orleen L Walker, "John Alexander and Elizabeth Jane Nutman Graham," another aunt and uncle (Elizabeth is William's stepmother's sister.) Courtesy of Edna Booth.

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