George W. Parsons
George Whitwell Parsons was a licensed attorney turned banker during the 19th century Old West. He is remembered due to his having kept an accurate diary of his days in the west, which gave detailed accounts of his interaction with Old West notables such as Wyatt Earp and Curly Bill Brocius.
Parsons was born in Washington, D.C., and raised to practice law in his fathers law firm. However, he became disillusioned with that field of work, and for a time he worked as a salvager in Florida, salvaging shipwrecks, beginning around 1874. After a near death experience while working in Cape Sable, during a hurricane, Parsons decided to find another line of work, and moved to California, where he worked as a bank clerk for three years in Los Angeles, starting in 1876. He then began working for the National Gold Bank amp Trust Co., but when the bank closed down in 1880 he found himself out of work, and moved with Milton Clapp to the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona, where he became associated with John Clum, who was mayor as well as editor of the The Tombstone Epitaph.
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