Wicked Bay City, Michigan by Younkman Tim

Author:Younkman, Tim [Younkman, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2016-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

While he was working for the railroad, young Franklin Parker had his Bay City offices in the Pere Marquette station. Bay County Historical Museum.

The Tribune noted that Parker served as president of the Saginaw Valley Lumber Dealers Association and as a trustee of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association. He was also elected association president, evidence that he was nationally known and respected.

He married Mary Beecher Bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1882. They were the parents of one son and two daughters: Franklin Eddy Parker Jr., Mary Bishop Parker Smith and Laura Loranne Parker.

Parker was a vestryman with the Trinity Episcopal Church and held membership in the Bay City Club, Saginaw Country Club, Bay City Country Club and the prestigious Harvard Club of New York.

Charles E. Pierce, former Bay County prosecutor and a defense attorney in a number of criminal cases, told reporters that he believed the crime was committed by youths rather than hardened professional criminals.

I have found that the code of professional criminals is never to take a life unless it becomes absolutely necessary to protect their own. Here is a case where the object of the footpads was given no show whatever. He was simply shot in the back, after which the perpetrators hastened away. The motive may have been robbery, but if it was, the highwaymen gave no indications of it by their actions. The act was one of the most cowardly in the annals of local history.

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