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means it afforded to strangers an opportunity of studying and
realizing the geological and mineralogical character of the
country. He prepared and published an early map of the Lead
Region of Wisconsin; and, in 1842, an interesting illustrated
paper in Silliman's Journal of Science on the curious animal
shaped mounds of Wisconsin. It was his unabated interest he
ever felt and evinced in the general developement of the country
and its wonderful antiquities, that elicited for him the honorable
eoubriquet of Old Curiosity.
Mr. TAYLOR recently served a term as City Controller of
Philadelphia-an office of much responsibility; and he now lives
in retirement in that city.
VII. Col. DANIEL M. PARKINSON born in Carter
was
County, East Tennessee, on the 1st of August, 1790. Hie
parents were natives of Shenandoah County, in the Valley of
Virginia; his father, PETER PARKINSON, having served under
Col. DANI~EL MORGAN, in the Revolutionary war, and on one
occasion was wounded; and about the close of thrtt contest,
removed to East Tennessee, where he took an active part in all
public matters pertaining to that exciting era in Tennessee
history. He served under Col. JOHN TIPTON, as a captain, in
1788, in a sort of civil strife then raging among the East Ten-
nesseeans, growing out of a conflict of jurisdiction in
consequence of the short-lived republic of Franklin, orgaiiised
under theleadership of Col. JOHN SEVIER; and though it was
mainly a war of words, yet some blood was shed before its termi-
nation. Capt. P~TER PARKINSON died in Carter Counl;y, in
March, 1792, when'the subject of this sketch was only a year
and a half old.
In 1810, young PARKINSON, when twenty years of age,
removed to White County, in the central portion of that State,
and while there, held the offices, first of Lieutenant, and then
Captain in the militia. In May, 1817, he removed to the Ter-
ritory of Illinois, and settled first in Madison county, twenty-five
miles east of St. Louis; and two years afterwards, he settled
in what subsequently became Sangamon County. During his