8.  "Dr. Charles Christopher Parry was born in Gloucestershire, England, in 1823, came to American in 1832, graduated in medicine at Columbia college and came to Davenport in 1849.  He practiced medicine only a few months before drifting into the more congenial work of a botanical collector.  He identified himself, however, with the Scott County Medical society at its organization, being one of the original signers and its third president in 1859.  He made extensive and repeated explorations of the Rocky mountains, Rio Grande, Mexican and Pacific coast regions during many years, returning to Washinton and to his Davenport home occasonally, and died here in 1890.  He was intimately connected with the Davenport Academy of Sciences, was its second president, and contributed much by his valuable papers, to the flattering recognition of its proceedings abroad. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L