Guide to the Parker Family Photographs

Allen Parker was born in Old Fort, Ohio in 1891. After graduating from Ohio University in 1915 he attended Hartfort Seminary until 1918. In 1918 he married Irene Glasgow (born 1891) of Summerfort, Kansas and the next year they were appointed as missionaries to the PCUSA's North India Mission. The Parkers spent two years at Allahabad Agricultural Institute and another two years at the Jumna Boys High School in Allahabad. In 1922 the Parkers were transferred to Landour where Rev. Parker was appointed principal of Woodstock School. He remained there until 1941 when he returned to the Jumna Boys High School. In 1943 he married a fellow missionary, Dorothy Dragon, following the death of his first wife two years earlier.

Dorothy Dragon Parker was born in Berkeley, California in 1907. After graduating from the University of California in 1929 she attended Biblical Seminary in New York and received a Bachelor in Religious Education in 1931. The following year Dorothy Dragon was appointed to the PCUSA North India Mission. After two years of language studies, she taught for a year at the Isabella Thoburn College. From 1935 until her marriage in 1943 she worked as an evangelist in Kasganj, with a special emphasis on women and adult literacy. After her marriage she taught in Jumna High School until Allen Parker's death in 1947. In 1952 she transferred to Kasgunj and Etahwah where she continued her work in adult literacy. She retired from missionary service in 1965.