Named in 1922 for landowners John Wesley Parish (1868-1962) and Alice Adella Parish (née Fry, 1871-1976; she died shortly before her 105th birthday). Nebraska natives both, the Parishes met in Los Angeles and married there in 1893. Twenty years later, they had come to Burbank, where John, a carpenter-turned-contractor, oversaw construction of several notable buildings including the home of retired boxing champ James Jeffries. Throughout the 1920s, the childless Parishes shuttled back and forth between Burbank and Eugene, OR, where Alice’s parents lived. They departed Burbank sometime after 1932 and lived in Mapleton, OR and Sebastopol, CA before ultimately retiring to Eugene in 1957.
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