John A. Parsons of American Plastics, 1941

John Andrew Parsons

Production Manager, American Plastics Corporation

Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY

1941

 

 

John Andrew Parsons

John Andrew Parsons, production manager for the American Plastics Corporation of Bainbridge, has been identified with the business life of this community since 1912.

 

Mr. Parsons was born at Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], December 18, 1895, the son of Merritt and Ada (Warner) Parsons, the former a native of Broome County, where he was born on December 6, 1857, and the latter of East Windsor, where she was born in 1857.  His father, who was a miller by trade, is now living in retirement.  Mr. Parsons attended the public schools of Bainbridge, where he completed his high school studies in 1912.  The same year he began his career with the Casein Company, where he worked as a member of the office and sales forces until 1925.  During the latter year he joined the Erinoid Company of America as assistant production manager and in 1930 became production manager for the American Plastics Corporation, successor of the Erinoid Company.

 

In his community activities Mr. Parsons has served as a member of the village board since 1933 and been active in the local Republican organization.  He is a member of the Sidney Country Club, fraternizes with the Susquehanna Lodge, No. 167, of the Masonic Order which he headed as Master in 1925, and belongs to the Vallonia Chapter, Royal Arch Masons.  In his religious convictions he worships at the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

 

Mr. Parsons married Julia Norton, of Bainbridge, daughter of Britton and Mime (Ferguson) Norton.  Mr. and Mrs. Parsons are the parents of three children:  1. John, Jr., who was born December 16, 1921; 2. Walter Lee, born March 27, 1923; 3. Harold Merton, born December 28, 1927.

 

Central New York, An Inland Empire, Vol. IV (Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1941) pp 31/2.

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Obituary

Binghamton Press, April 12, 1961

 

Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY]:  Funeral of Mayor John Andrew Parsons, Sr., 65, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Sherman Funeral Home here.  Mr. Parsons died Tuesday morning in The Hospital at Sidney, where he had been a patient for one week.  Mr. Parsons had served several terms as mayor of Bainbridge.  He first was appointed mayor Jan. 1, 1942, to succeed Lincoln A. Orvis, who became Town of Bainbridge supervisor.  Mr. Parsons served as mayor until 1948.  He also served a term from April 1, 1964 to April 1, 1956, and last was elected April 1, 1960.  Mr. Parsons was president of America Plastics Corp. of Bainbridge, and was a member of the Society of Plastic Engineers.  He also was a member of Vallonia Chapter 80, Royal Arch Masons of Afton; Susquehanna Lodge 167, F&AM; Slater-Silvernail Post, American Legion of Bainbridge, and Loyal Order of Moose 277 of Sidney.  He was a native of Oneonta, but had lived most of his life in Bainbridge.  Surviving are his wife Mrs. Julia Norton Parsons; three sons, John Andrew, Jr., and Walter Lee, both of Bainbridge, and S/Sgt. Harold Merton, with the U.S. Air Force at Truax Field, Madison, Wis., and five grandchildren.  The Rev. G. Thomas Skyler will officiate.  Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge].  Masonic services will be conducted in the funeral home at 8 o'clock tonight.