Parrish, Charles Henry – Parsons, Mosby Monroe
Parrish, Charles Henry
clergyman, educator, college president, was born April 18, 1859, in Lexington, Ky. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city; and attended the state university of Louisville, in which institution he was subsequently secretary, treasurer and professor of Greek. He is now pastor of the Calvary Baptist church of Louisville and president of the Eckstein Norton university.
Parrish, Edward
educator, college president, author, was born May 31, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an educator and pharmacist of Philadelphia, and president of Swarthmore college in 1868- 70. He was the author of Introduction to Practical Pharmacy; The Phantom Bouquet, a Treatise on Skeletonizing Leaves; and Essay on Education in the Society of Friends. He died in 1872. on
Parrish, Isaac
congressman, was born in 1811 in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1841, and again from 1845 to 1847.
Parrish, John
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 7, 1729, in Baltimore, Md.
He was a Quaker preacher of Pennsylvania noted as an early opponent of slavery, who published Remarks on the Slavery of the Black Race. He died Oct. 21, 1807, in Baltimore, Md.
Parrish, Joseph
physician, author, was born Sept. 2, 1779, in Philadelphia.
He was an eminent Philadelphia physician who was the author of Practical Observations on Strangulated Hernia. He died in 1840.
Parrish, Joseph
physician, author, was born Nov. 11, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a physician of Burlington, N. J., famous as an authority upon the treatment of inebriates; and the author of Alcoholic Inebriety from the Medical Standpoint. He died in 1891.
Parrish, Rob Roy
poet, was born Jan. 15, 1846, in Noble county, Ohio. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Echoes From the Vale.
Parrott, Enoch Greenleaf
naval officer, was born Dec. 10, 1814, in Portsmouth, N. H. He entered the United States navy as a midshipman in 1831, became lieutenant in 1841. He was commissioned captain in 1866, commodore in 1870, rear-admiral in 1873, and was retired in 1874. He died May 10, 1879, in New York city.
Parrott, John Francis
state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1768 in Greenland, N. H. He was in 1811 a member of the New Hampshire legislature; a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1817 to 1819; and a senator of the United States from 1819 to 1825. In 1826 he was appointed postmaster at Portsmouth. He died July 9, 1836, in Greenland, N. H.
Parrott, Marcus J
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1828, in Hamburg, S. C. He was a member of the Ohio legislature in 1853 and 1854.
He was elected a delegate to the thirtyfifth congress from Kansas territory; and re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress.
Parrott, Matt
journalist, legislator, was born May 11, 1837, in Schoharie, N. Y. He is a noted journalist of Waterloo, Iowa, of which city he has been mayor. For eight years he served as a state senator in the Iowa legislature, and is now serving as lieutenant-governor of that state.
Parrott, Robert Parker
soldier, inventor, was born Oct. 5, 1804, in Lee, N. H. He was a captain of ordnance in the United States army, and invented the Parrott system of rifled cannon and projectiles. He died Dec. 24, 1877, in Cold Spring, N. Y.
Parry, Charles Christopher
botanist, author, was born Aug. 28, 1823, in England. He was a botanist of Davenport, Iowa, among whose writings are, Botanical Observations in Western Wyoming; and Botanical Observations in Southern Utah. He died Feb. 20, 1890.
Parson, Samuel H
lawyer, jurist.
He was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory northwest of the Ohio river.
Parsons, Albert Ross
musician, composer, was born Nov. 16, 1847, in Sandusky, Ohio. He has attained national prominence as a musician of New York city; and has composed many pieces.
Among his best known are: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes; Break, Break; Etude; and many other pieces.
Parsons, Andrew
state senator, governor, was born July 22, 1817, in Hoosick, N. Y. In 1846 he was elected to the Michigan state senate; and in 1853 was elected governor, resigning in 1855.
He died June 6, 1855.
Parsons, Anson Virgil
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1799 in Granville, Mass. In 1840 he was president judge of the court of common pleas of the Dauphin judicial district. In 1842 he became secretary of the commonwealth. He returned to the bench as judge of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia in 1843.
He resumed practice in 1851, when the judiciary became elective. With Judge Edward King, he published Select Cases in Equity, in two volumes. He died Sept. 23, 1882, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Parsons, Charles
artist, was born May 8, 1821, in England. Since 1861 he has been at the head of the art department of Harper and Brothers. Among his recent paintings are An Old Orchard, Long Island; and Amagansett, L. I.
Parsons, Charles
railroad president, was born Feb. 6, 1829, in Alfred, Maine. Since 1894 he has been president of the South Carolina and Georgia railway.
Parsons, Charles William
physician, educator, author, was born Sept. 6, 1823, in Providence, R. I. He settled in practice in Providence; was professor of physiology in Brown in 1874-82; and is the author of two Fiske fund prize dissertations, and many medical and historical papers.
Parsons, Charles Wesley
orator, clergyman, was born Jan. 7, 1851, in Otsego county, N. Y. He received his education at the Cazenovia seminary; the Wyoming Conference seminary of Kingston, Pa.; and the Drew Theological seminary of Madison, N. J. He has attained distinction as a brilliant orator, and as one of the leading clergymen of the methodist episcopal church. He has filled pastorates in Fairfield, Gouverneur, Watertown, and Rome, N. Y.; in Kansas City, Mo.; Newark, N. J.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; and is now pastor of the Chestnut Street church of Portland, Maine.
Parsons, David
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 28, 1749, in Amherst, N. H.
He gave the ground on which Amherst college is built; contributed to its support; and wrote Election Sermon; and Ordination Sermon. He died May 18, 1823, in Wethersfield, Conn.
Parsons, Edward Young
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1842, in Jefferson county, Ky. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-fourth congress. He died July 8, 1876.
Parsons, Mrs. Frances Theo-
DORA [SMITH] [DANA], author, was born in 1861 in New York. She is a writer of Albany whose books were published under the name of Mrs. William Starr Dana. She is the author of How to Know the Wild Flowers; According to Season; and Plants and Their Children.
Parsons, Frank
lawyer, author, was born in 1855 in New Jersey. He is a lawyer of Boston; and the author of The World's Best Books; and Our Country's Need, or the Development of a Scientific Industrial System. He has edited several legal works.
Parsons, George Frederic
journalist, author, was born in 1840 in England. He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of Life of J. W. Marshall, Discoverer of Gold in California; and Middle Ground, a novel.
Parsons, George M
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 15, 1850, in Cambridge City, Ind. While attending high school in Hamilton, Ohio, he enlisted as a private soldier in the eighty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, being but fifteen years of age. At the close of the war he entered a commercial college; took up the study of law; and has attained success as one of the leading lawyers of Idaho at Boise City. He was a member of the seventh and tenth sessions of the Idaho territorial legislature; in 1883-84 was probate judge of Alturas county; and for two terms during 1893- 96 was attorney-general of Idaho.
Parsons, Henry Betts
chemist, educator, author, was born Nov. 20, 1855, in Asia Minor. His Method for the Proximate Analysis of Plants was published in the chief chemical journals of the world, and universally adopted. He died Aug. 21, 1885, in Tucson, Ariz.
Parsons, J. D
librarian. He is librarian of the public library of Newburyport, Mass.; and is a constant contributor to current publications.
Parsons, Jonathan
clergyman, author, was born in 1705 in Massachusetts. He was a presbyterian minister of Newburyport, who adopted the views of Whitefield, and in whose house that famous preacher died. He was the author of Lectures on Justification; Good News from a Far Country, said to be the first book published in New Hampshire; Sixty Sermons; and Freedom from Ecclesiastical and Civil Slavery the Purchase of Christ. He died in 1776.
Parsons, Levi
lawyer, jurist, railroad president, was born July 1, 1822, in Kingsboro, N. Y. He was elected judge of the San Francisco district in 1850, subsequently engaged in business, and built the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, of which he became the first president.
He died Oct. 23, 1887, in New York city.
Parsons, Lewis Baldwin
soldier, lawyer, was born April 5, 1818, in Genesee county, N. Y. In 1864 he was placed in charge of all railroad and river army transportation in the United States. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865, and in 1866 was brevetted major-general of volunteers.
Parsons, Lewis E
governor. He was appointed provisional governor of Alabama in 1865.
Parsons, Mosby Monroe
soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born in 1819 in Virginia.
He was attorney-general of Missouri in 1853-57, and subsequently became a member of the state senate. He was active in organizing the state militia, and raised a mounted brigade which he commanded with the rank of brigadiergeneral. He died Aug. 17, 1865, in Camargo, Mexico.