Owned small house W. of Evan's in 1850s264(Clockville, Madison Co., NY)
1850, $500.00 real estate - he and wife had both attended school that year266 1850, next door to John T. Parkhill at Clockville266

Military Service: September 02, 1864, Civil War - Company I, 15th NY vol. engineers - discharged June 13, 1865267

September 19, 1865, After return from war bought and ran express mill, Clockville, N.Y.268
Clockville, Madison Co., NY.  "Express mill" originally called "Express Custom and Flowering Mill", built in 1820 by J.D. Nellis.  Later owners were S. Bennett, H. H. Hathaway, Wright and Baker, Mr. Parker and S. Pettit.  H.H. Hathaway was an inventor and on May 21, 1867 he patented a hay fork and improved in in 1869.  December 7, 1869 he patented a grappling hook.  Both were manufactured at the Express Mill.  He may also have experimented with a coffee substitute.  (Town of Lincoln, U.S.A.)

1867, Moved to Wisconsin, Harrisville, Marquette Co.265

March 11, 1873, To town of Hull, Wisconsin - farm 2 miles east of Abbotsford267

The following story taken from the Abbotsford Centennial Booklet published in 1973.
The winter of '72 - '73 was a rather severe one. In this year there was a small pox epidemic in many parts of the country.  Some families lost nearly every member to this contagious disease. In early March, E. T. Parkhill and family arrived from Marquette County totheir new home in the north woods.  There being no sleighing in the sandyportion of the state, where they had been, they journeyed on easy stagesnorth.  They went through Marquette and Waushara Counties by way of StevensPoint.  From there they traveled through Mosinee where they turned west andnorth through Marathon City.  About the 9th of March they arrived at Mr.Shield's place.  Here they stayed overnight.  As the snow from this pointwest toward their destination was quite deep, a change was made from wagons to sleighs.  Early March 11th they left the Shield's home and arrived late that night at the still unfinished log shanty of Peter Deschamp. Arrangements had been made for the family to stay here until they could build a shanty on their own homestead.  Peter Deschamp and his bachelor brother, Isaac, were "batching" it in Peter's new log house.  It was a very fine log house at that time.  The logs were hewed both inside and out.  The roof was covered with "shakes" rived out from dead pine bolts, cut from some of the many wind-falls with which the woods abounded. In the early spring they brushed a trail through the woods to the SE sect. 6.  Then with a team and wagon containing provisions and bedding, they drove to the homestead and began cutting trees for their log house.  It was made of hemlock and they left many of them just as they fell, neither hewed inside nor out.  The roof was made with bark peeled from elm trees.  The yellow clay from the old wind-fall, when leveled off with a grub'hoe and tramped down solid, made a good floor which they swept with a broom made of small bushes tied together into a bundle.  There was no lumber available at that time, but later in the summer they hauled some in for the floor, from Spaulding's mill near Unity.  To this new home they brought their mother and all the family on the father's birthday June 9, 1873.  To prevent the mother from being thrown from the seat of the lumber wagon, they tied her with straps. Every small creek and stream was a swollen torrent from spring rains.  Many times the water came up into the wagon box when crossing the streams. Porcupines were plentiful.  When the Parkhills came to the creek, there were enough porcupines in the great elms to give each of the seven sons and the father a shot at one.
The Parkhills lived on this homestead until the father's death on November 8, 1888.  With the exception of one or two winters, the family lived in the building which stood on the lot where the brick building which was Jack July's Saloon still stands.

"The first caucus (for the Town of Hull) was held at D. B. Hull's shanty on March 25, 1873.  E. T. Parkhill and D. L. Kean were elected to the office of Justices of peace."  Mr. George Parkhill's father was present at the raising of Ben Walker's shanty.  He then went on his way to enter his land at the land office." (Taken from the Abbotsford centennial booklet)

Burial: Hull, Wisconsin263 Cause of Death: asthma complicated with other difficulties263
Methodist. Justice of Peace, Town Clerk,  Court Commissioner, member of Isaac N. Earl Post 112 GAR, post surgeon & post commander267
Occupation: carpenter268

 SUSAN ANN NILES: Burial: Hull, Wisconsin with husband.  Lived with son Niles after husband's death269