Parsons, Richard C – Patchin, Jared
Parsons, Richard C
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1826, in New London, Conn. In 1851 he was elected a member of the city council of Cleveland, and the next year president of that body. In 1857 he was elected to the Ohio legislature; re-elected, and chosen speaker of the house. He was appointed consul at Rio Janeiro; was appointed collector of internal revenue at Cleveland for four years; and in 1866 received the appointment of marshal of the supreme court of the United States, and served six years. He was elected to the forty-third congress.
Parsons, Samuel Holden
soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 14, 1737, in Lyme, Conn. He was elected a member of the Connecticut assembly in 1762, and successively for eighteen sessions. He was made brigadier-general by congress in 1776; and major-general in 1780. In 1785 he was appointed by congress a commissioner to treat with the Indians at Miami; was a member of the convention of Connecticut which ratified the federal constitution of 1788; and was appointed first judge of the northwest territory. In 1789 he was state commissioner for treating with the Indians on the western reserve of Connecticut; and settled on the Ohio river in 1787, and published an essay on the antiquities of the western states. He was drowned Nov. 17, 1789, in Big Beaver river, Ohio.
Parsons, Theophilus
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 24, 1750, in Byfield, Mass. He was a jurist of Newburyport and after 1800 of Boston, and chief justice of Massachusetts from 1801.
He was the author of Commentaries on the Law of the United States; and The Essex Result, a famous political pamphlet of 1777. He died Oct. 30, 1813, in Boston, Mass.
Parsons, Theophilus
educator, author, was born May 17, 1797, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a noted legal writer, Dane professor of law in Harvard university from 1847, and an eminent Swedenborgian thinker. He was the author of Treatise on the Law of Contracts; Elements of Mercantile Law; The Laws of Business; Maritime Law; Law of Promissory Notes; Principles of the Law of Partnership; The Law of Marine Insurance; Treatise on the Law of Partnership; Political, Personal, and Property Rights of a United States Citizen; Memoir of Chief Justice Parsons; The Ministry of Sorrow; Deus Homo; The Infinite and the Finite; Essays; Outlines of the Religion and Philosophy of Swedenborg; and The Mystery of Life. He died Jan. 26, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass.
Parsons, Thomas William
author, poet, was born Aug. 18, 1819, in Boston, Mass. He was a poet of Boston who for some years practiced his profession of dentistry there. The quality of his writing is uneven, but in such poems as the Lines on a Bust of Dante, and When Francesca Sings, he is at his best. His work includes a much admired though incomplete translation in English verse of Dante's Divina Commedia, of which an edition was issued in 1893, with introduction by C. E. Norton, and memorial sketch by Miss Guiney; Ghetto di Roma; The Magnolia; The Old Home at Sudbury; The Shadow of the Obelisk, and Other Poems; and Poems. He died in 1892.
Parsons, Usher
surgeon, was born Aug. 8, 1788, in Alfred, Maine. He was a surgeon of Providence; and the author of The Art of Making Anatomic Preparations; Prize Dissertations; Sailors' Physician; History of the Battle of Lake Erie; and Life of Sir William Pepperell. He died Dec. 19, 1868, in Providence, R. I.
Parsons, William
surveyor, was born in England. In 1743 he was appointed surveyor-general of Pennsylvania, resigning in 1748. He died in December, 1757, in Easton, Pa.
Parthemore, E. Winfield Scott
business man, author, was born July 25, 1852, in Highspire, Pa. He is largely interested in building and loan associations. He is the author of A Genealogy of the Parthemore Family; and A Genealogy of the Luding Bretz Family.
Parton, Arthur
artist, was born March 26, 1842, in Hudson, N. Y. In 1886 he received a gold medal at the prize exhibition at the American Art association for his Evening after the Rain. His pictures include November; On the Road to Mt. Marcy; and A Mountain Brook.
Parton, Ernest
artist, was born March 17, 1845, in Hudson, N. Y. Among his paintings are Morning Mist; Papa's Luncheon; Placid Stream; and Sunny September.
Parton, James
author, was born Feb. 9, 1822, in England. He was a popular writer of English birth who came to America when very young and for the latter part of his life resided in Newburyport. The permanent value of his writing is not great, with the possible exception of his Life of Voltaire. He was the author of Lives of Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Franklin, Jefferson; General Butler in New Orleans; Famous Americans of Recent Times; Smoking and Drinking; Captains of Industry; Triumphs of Enterprise; Noted Women of America and Europe; The People's Book of Biography; Caricature and Other Comic Art; and Topics of the Times. He died in 1891.
Parton, Mrs. Sarah Payson
[WILLIS] [ELDRIDGE], author, was born July 7, 1811, in Portland, Maine. She was a once popular but now neglected writer who for some sixteen years contributed a weekly article to The New York Ledger. She was the author of Rose Clark, a novel; Ruth Hall, a, novel more or less autobiographic; Fern Leaves; Folly as It Flies; Ginger Snaps; and Caper Sauce. She died Oct. 10, 1872.
Partridge, George
congressman, was born Feb. 8, 1740, in Duxbury, Mass.
He was a delegate to the continental congress from Massachusetts from 1776 to 1778, and in 1784; and a representative in congress after the adoption of the constitution, from 1789 to 1791. He died July 7, 1828, in Duxbury, Mass.
Partridge, Oliver
congressman, was born June 13, 1712, in Hatfield, Mass.
He was a member of the first colonial congress in 1765. He died July 21, 1792, in Hatfield, Mass.
Partridge, Samuel
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843. He died April 2, 1883.
Partridge, William Ordway
sculptor, author, poet, was born in 1861 in France. He is a sculptor of Milton, Mass.; and the author of Art for America; The Technique of Sculpture; and The Song Life of a Sculptor.
Parvin, Theodore Sutton
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 15, 1817, in Cumberland county, N. J. He was elected three consecutive terms as judge of the probate court of Iowa. He has been grand secretary of the Masonic lodge of Iowa, and has edited a full set of the annals of the grand lodge from its organization, comprising thirteen large volumes. He is the author of History of Iowa; and History of Templary in Iowa.
Parvin, Theophilus
physician, author, was born Jan. 8, 1829, in Argentine Republic. He is a Philadelphia physician; professor in Jefferson Medical college; and has published The Science and Art of Obstetrics.
Paschal, Thomas M
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 15, 1845, in Alexandria, La. He moved to Brackett, Texas, in 1873, and practiced law till 1875, when elected judge of the twenty-fourth judicial district, to which position he was re-elected in 1880 and 1884. In 1876 he was appointed agent between the United States and Mexico, and was reappointed in 1880. In 1875 he returned to Castroville and was elected judge of the thirty-eighth judicial district in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Paschall, George Washington
lawyer, jurist, educator, author, was born Nov. 23, 1812, in Skull Shoals, Ga. He was a jurist of Texas, and later of Washington, where he was professor of jurisprudence in Georgetown college. He was the author of Annotated Digest of Texas Laws; Decisions of Texas Supreme Court; and Annotated Constitution of the United States. He died Feb. 16, 1878, in Washington, D. C.
Pasco, Samuel
soldier, lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was born June 28, 1834, in London, England. When quite young he moved with his father first to Prince Edward Island, thence to Massachusetts; was prepared for college at the high school in Charlestown; and graduated at Harvard in 1858. In 1859 he went to Florida to take charge of the Waukeenah academy of Jefferson county, where he has ever since resided. In 1861 he entered the confederate army as a private.
He was admitted to the bar in 1868; in 1872 became a member of the democratic state committee; and from 1876 to 1888 was its chairman. He has represented Florida on the democratic national committee since 1880; and in 1880 was elected a presidential elector at large; in 1885 was president of the constitutional convention of his state; and in 1887, while speaker of the state house of representatives, was elected to the United States senate as a democrat, to succeed Charles W. Jones; and was re-elected to the same office. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.
Pasko, Wesley Washington
inventor, author, was born Jan. 4, 1840, in Waterloo, N. Y. He is the inventor of the Pasko Press; and is the author of Biographical History of Indiana; History of Butler County, Ohio; A Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking; and Men Who Advertise.
Patchin, Clinton H
lawyer, state legislator, was born Aug. 31, 1830, in Rochester, N. Y. For many years he was state sealer of weights and measures; has served with distinction as a member of both houses of the state legislature of Nevada; and for many years was district attorney of Lincoln county. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Nevada at Pioche, and a contributor to law journals and the periodical press of the west.
Patchin, Jared
lawyer, jurist, was born April 18, 1828, in Benton, N. Y. He was a member of the Florida state legislature; was county attorney; and in 1868 was judge of the circuit court.