Charles H. Parker (November 16, 1814 – March 3, 1890) was an American cutler, manufacturer, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
He took up work as a machinist in a Beloit reaper factory the next year for $1 a day, and would walk back home to his family in Belvidere on Friday evenings, returning to his job on the following Monday morning.
They commenced by first making hoes and then expanding to such implements as grain sickles and blades for mowing machines.
In 1876 Parker was once more elected to the Assembly, from Rock County's reapportioned 1st Assembly district (now the city of Beloit, and the Towns of Avon, Beloit, Center, Newark, Magnolia, Plymouth, Spring Valley, and Union), this time as a Greenback; he received 1,079 votes against 972 for Republican William Alcott.
L. Holden Parker would succeed his father as president of the bank; and would eventually serve one term (as a Republican) in the Assembly district which then included Beloit.