John Grubb Parke (Sept. 22, 1827 - Dec. 16, 1900) American Military officer; born Chester county Pennsylvania, Graduated West Point 1849.

In the Army Engineering Corps, he determined the boundary-lines between Iowa and the Little Colorado river, and made the surveys for a rail-road from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean, and was the chief surveyor of the party charged with the delimitation of the northwest boundary of the United States and British North America, 1857-1861.

He became brigadier General of volunteers in 1861; in the operations on the North Carolina coast in early 1862. When Ambrose Burnside succeeded George McClellan he was that general's chief of staff. In the campaign against The Vicksburg he was a conspicuous actor. He was also engaged in the defense of Knoxville; and in the Richmond campaign in 1864. In 1865 he was brevetted major-general; in 1889 was retired.

Died in Washington D.C. 16 December 1900.