Beginning in 1854, Andrew Parker was a seller of woodworking machinery and hand tools. The latest data points we can find are from 1878. Parker was granted an 1864 feed-roll patent and was co-assigned an 1878 patent for a collapsible tap, but the evidence suggests that he did not manufacture anything. He exhibited machines at the Ohio State Fair, including mortiser, tenoner, lathe and sash moulder; we do not know who actually manufactured those machines.

Information Sources

• The 1856-10-15 Ohio Cultivator has a "List of Premiums Awarded at the Seventh Annual Fair of Ohio, held at Cleveland, Sept. 23-26, 1856." Andrew Parker's tenoning machine, foot mortising machine, and "wood turning machine" each won a diploma. His sash moulding machine was "highly commended".
• The 1863 Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture lists premiums awarded at that year's Ohio State Fair including an award of $5 to Andrew Parker of Cleveland for "Best Moulding Machine".
• Listed in the 1874 work, Wiley's American iron trade manual of the leading iron industries of the United States, as a maker of woodworking machinery and tools.
• Classified ad in 1876-02-26 Scientific American.

  WANTED—Six second hand Milling Machines, 1 Brown & Sharp Universal Mill, 1 Iron Planer, 4 ft. bed, 6 small E. Lathes. Address, giving prices and condition of tools, Andrew Parker, Seneca St., Cleveland, Ohio.

• Industries of Cleveland: Trade, Commerce and Manufactures for the Year 1878.

  ANDREW PARKER, machine Broker.
  The business of selling machinery is among the oldest pursuits of trade, and is a very important branch of business. Mr. Andrew Parker, occupying a room 30 by 30 feet, at No. 4 Champlain street, has been in this enterprise since 1854, at which time he began business with no capital but a thorough knowledge of the undertaking, he his been seliing machinery in this city constantly for the past twenty-four years. Mr. Parker was born in Worcester county. Massachusetts, in 1813, and being possessor of shrewdness and with a practical knowledge of the character of all the machines he sells, he has been partially successful in a measure in a business in which so many others would have failed. He has a capital invested of about $2,000, and although business is now somewhat "slack" he has all reason to hope for better times. He keeps all kinds of machinery for working wood and iron, lathes, planers, drills, steam pumps, sash machines, stone machines, steam gauges, etc. He also sells a patent on a feeding roll that can be adapted to either a saw or planing machine. Any kind of a machine furnished to order at short notice, and below manufacturers prices.

• Andrew Parker received an 1864 patent on a feed-roller design for saws and planers, and he was co-assigned an 1878 patent for an adjustable screw-tap.