Parker family.

Allen E. Parker (1891-1947); appointed as missionary to the PCUSA's North India Mission; 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 1918 he married Irene Glasgow of Summerfort, Kansas. In 1943 he married a fellow missionary, Dorothy Dragon, following the death of his first wife two years earlier.

Irene Glasgow Parker (1891-1941); appointed as missionary to the PCUSA's North India Mission with her husband Allen E. Parker.

Dorothy Dragon Parker (1907- ); second wife of missionary Allen E. Parker; as 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 Kāsganj, with a special emphasis on women and adult literacy. After her marriage to Allen Parker she taught in Jumna High School until his death in 1947. In 1952 she transferred to Kāsganj and Etahwah and continued her work in adult literacy, retiring in 1965.

From the description of Photographs, 1920-1956. (Presbyterian Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 20161100