Samuel Parker & Son
Samuel Parker (c.1788-1871) may have been the wealthiest horn merchant in Sheffield. He was listed in a directory (1822) in Fargate as a bone and horn merchant. He also made ‘fancy horn boxes’. Later the address was Porter Street. By the end of the 1830s, Samuel had been joined by his son, William, and his firm also occupied a stretch of the canal basin on Sussex Street, known as Parker’s Wharf. Wilmot Taylor (1927)1 has described Parker’s canal-side piles of ox, cow, buf....
