Parker, James – Parker, Thomas
Parker, James
physician, congressman, was born in 1768, in Boston, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1813 to 1815, and from 1819 to 1821. He died Nov. 9, 1837, in Gardiner, Maine.
Parker, James
merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born March 3, 1776, in Bethlehem, N. J. He was a member of the New Jersey legislature in 1806- 18; and was a representative in congress from 1833 to 1837. He served as one of the commissioners on the part of New Jersey to settle the boundary and jurisdiction between New York and New Jersey. He died April 1, 1868, in Perth Amboy, N. J.
Parker, James Cutter Dunn
musician, author, was born June 2, 1828, in Boston, Mass. He is a Boston musician; and the author of Manual of Harmony; and Theoretical and Practical Harmony.
Parker, James Henry
banker, was born Jan. 4, 1843, in Johnston county, N. C. In 1882 he moved to New York and carried on a cotton and commission business with success, serving for two years as president of the Cotton exchange. In 1891 the United States National bank called him to its presidency and he is yet at its head.
Parker, Joel
educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 25, 1795, in Jaffrey, N. H. He was a jurist of Massachusetts, professor of law at Harvard university in 1847-75; and the author of The War Power of Congress; The Right of Secession; The Non-Extension of Revolu- Slavery; Constitutional Law; Revolution and Construction; The Three Powers of Government; and Conflict of Decisions. He died Aug. 17, 1875, in Cambridge, Mass.
Parker, Joel
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 27, 1799, in Bethel, Vt.
He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city; and the author of Lectures on Unitarianism; Invitations to True Happiness; Reasonings of a Pastor; Sermons; and Notes on Twelve Psalms. He died May 2, 1873, in New York city.
Parker, Joel
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born Nov. 24, 1816, near Freehold, N. J. He received a common school education at Trenton; graduated at Princeton college in 1839; studied law, and came to the bar in 1842. He was elected to the state legislature in 1847; and was, for a time, attorney for his county. In 1861 he was elected major - general of volunteers.
In 1862 he was elected governor of New Jersey for three years; and was again elected governor in 1871. He died Jan. 2, 1888, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Parker, John
congressman, was born Jan. 24, 1749, in Charleston, S. C.
He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1786 to 1788. He died April 20, 1822, near Charleston, S. C.
Parker, John Adams
artist, was born Nov. 29, 1829, in New York city.
Mountain scenery has especially claimed his attention, and the Adirondacks, the Catskills, and the White mountains have furnished him with most of the subjects for his paintings. They include Twilight in the Adirondacks; Winter; Winter Twilight; and Landscape in the Adirondacks-Twilight.
Parker, John Mason
lawyer, congressman, was born June 14, 1805, in Granville, N. Y. He was a representative in the thirty-fifth congress from New York.
Parker, Josiah
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1789 to 1801.
Parker, Linus
methodist episcopal bishop, was born in 1829, in Rome, N. Y.
He was editor of the New Orleans Christian Advocate in New Orleans, La., for some time. Early in his ministry he was elected a delegate to the general conference, and sat in its quadrennial sessions from 1870 till 1882, inclusive. In the latter year he was elected a bishop. He died March 5, 1885, in New Orleans, La.
Parker, Nahum
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born March 4, 1760, in Cheshire county, N. H. He was a state counselor of New Hampshire from 1805 to 1807. He was United States senator from 1807 to 1810; judge of the court of common pleas from 1822 to 1825; and president of the state senate in 1828.
He died Nov. 12, 1839, in Fitzwilliam, N. H.
Parker, Nathan Howe
author.
He is the author of Iowa as It Is in 1855; Kansas and Nebraska Handbook for 1857- 58; The Missouri Handbook; and Missouri as It Is in 1.867.
Parker, Nelson Augustus
soldier, lawyer, was born July 18, 1840, in Hamburgh, N. Y. In 1868 he graduated from the law department of the Michigan university; and since 1869 has practiced law in Benzie and adjoining counties with success. He has been prosecuting attorney of Benzie county; has been candidate for judge of probate and for circuit judge; and in 1884 was a delegate to the national greenback convention. In 1868 he was a delegate to the national soldiers' convention at Chicago; and voted to nominate General U. S. Grant for his first term as president. During the war he was sergeant, lieutenant and captain of company B, twentieth regiment, Michigan volunteer infantry.
Parker, Mrs. Permelia Jane
(MARSH), author, was born June 16, 1836, in Milan, N. Y. She is a writer of Rochester, N. Y., and the author of Toiling and Hoping, a novel; The Boy Missionary; Losing the Way; Under His Banner; The Midnight Cry, a novel of the Millerite delusion; Rochester, a Story Historical; Life of S. F. B. Morse; The Morgan Boys; Around the Manger; and Andy, the story of a Troublesome Boy.
Parker, Peter
missionary, author, was born June 18, 1804, in Framingham, Mass. He was a congregational missionary and diplomat in China, and after 1857 a resident of Washington. He was the author of Journal of an Expedition from Singapore to Japan; and Statement Respecting Hospitals in China. He died Jan. 10, 1888, in Washington, D. C.
Parker, Richard
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.
Parker, Richard Elliott
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Dec. 27, 1783, in Westmoreland county, Va. In early life he was a member of the Virginia house of delegates; and was for many years a judge of the general and circuit courts of Virginia. He was also a judge of the supreme court of appeals; and for a brief period in 1836 and 1837 was a senator in congress. He died Sept. 9, 1840, in Richmond, Va.
Parker, Richard Green
educator, author, was born in 1798 in Massachusetts. He was an educator of Boston; and the author of Natural Philosophy; and Aids to English Composition. He died in 1869.
Parker, Richard Wayne
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1848, in Morristown, N. J. He is a successful lawyer of Newark, N. J.; and was a member of the house of assembly of New Jersey in 1885 and 1886. He was the republican candidate for the fiftythird congress and was elected to the fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth congresses.
Parker, Samuel
protestant episcopal bishop, author, was born Aug. 17, 1744, in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1803 he was unanimously elected to the episcopate of Massachusetts, and was consecrated in Trinity church, New York city, in 1804. He published an Annual Election Sermon Before the Legislature of Massachusetts; a Sermon for the Benefit of the Boston Female Asylum; and several other occasional discourses. He died Dec. 6, 1804, in Boston, Mass.
Parker, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born April 23, 1779, in Ashfield, Mass.
He was a congregational clergyman of New York state, said to have been the first who suggested the possibility of a railway through the Rocky mountains to the Pacific ocean. He published, Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains. He died March 24, 1866, in Ithaca, N. Y.
Parker, Samuel W
journalist, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 9, 1805, in Jefferson county, N. Y. He was elected to the Indiana legislature in 1836, where he served five years. He was two years attorney for the state, and was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1851 to 1855.
Parker, Severn E
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in Northampton county, Va. He was a prominent member of the Virginia legislature; and a representative in congress from 1819 to 1821. He died Oct. 21, 1836, in Northampton, Va.
Parker, Theodore
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 24, 1810, in Lexington, Mass. He was a famous unitarian clergyman of West Roxbury, Mass. He was the author of Miscellaneous Writings; Sermons on Theism, Atheism, and Popular Occasional Theology; Sermons and Speeches; Matters Pertaining to Religion; Additional Sermons and Speeches; Sermons for the Times; Experience as a Minister; West Roxbury Sermons; Prayers; Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Mind; Historic Americans; and Views of Religion. His complete works, as edited by Frances Power Cobbe, fill twelve volumes. died May 10, 1860, in Florence, Italy.
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Parker, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born June 8, 1595, in England. He was a learned puritan clergyman who was one of the founders of Newbury, Mass., and its first pastor. Parker River, in that region, is named in his honor.
He was the author of Letter on Church Government; Prophecies of Daniel Expounded; Methodus Gratiæ Diviniæ; and Theses de Traductione Peccatoris ad Vitam. He died April 24, 1677, in Newbury, Mass.