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Park, Roswell

educator, author, was born in 1852 in Lebanon, Conn. He is a professor of surgery in the university of Buffalo from 1883 who has published Lectures on Surgical Pathology.

Parke, John

soldier, author, was born April 7, 1754, in Dover, Del. He was an officer in the American army during the revolution, who published The Lyric Works of Horace. The translation, in rhymed verse, was dedicated to Washington, and in it the names of American patriots were substituted for those of the Roman worthies. He died Dec. 11, 1789, near Dover, Del.

Parke, John Grubb

soldier, educator, author, was born Sept. 22, 1827, in Chester county, Pa. He was a soldier of distinction who was superintendent of the United States Military academy in 1887, and was retired from active service in 1889. He is the author of United States Laws Relating to Public Works; and Laws Relating to the Construction of Bridges over Navigable Waters.

Parke, Thomas

educator, physician, college president, lecturer, was born Aug. 6, 1749, in Chester county, Pa. In 1787 he was one of the founders of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and from 1818 until his death he was president of this body, and was the last survivor of its founders. He died Jan. 9, 1835, in Philadelphia.

Parker, Abraham X

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 14, 1831, in Granville, Vt. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1863 and 1864; and a state senator from 1868 to 1871. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.

Parker, Amos Andrew

legislator, journalist, author, was born in 1792 in Fitzwilliam, N. H. For several years he was editor of the New Hampshire Statesman; and served thirteen sessions in the New Hampshire legislature. He is the author of several books, among which are A Trip to the West of Texas; and Poems at Four-Score.

PARKER, ANDREW, congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.

Parker, Benjamin S

merchant, author, poet, was born Feb. 10, 1833, in Indiana. For twenty years he has been a merchant of New Castle, Ind. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled The Cabin in the Clearing; and has also compiled a volume of Indiana poetry.

Parker, Bowdoin S

soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 10, 1841, in Conway, Mass. He is a successful lawyer of Boston, Mass.; was a member of the city council for three years; and for two years served with distinction as a member of the Massachusetts state legislature. He is a veteran of the war of the rebellion; a commissioned officer of the Massachusetts volunteer militia for eighteen years, and was placed on the retired list with rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Parker, C. M

educator, journalist, was born Sept. 17, 1860, in Wilkes county, N. C. He is the founder, editor and owner of The School News of Taylorville, Ill.

Parker, Cortlandt

lawyer, was born June 27, 1818, in Perth Amboy, N.

J. He was one of the revisers of the laws of New Jersey in 1875, and a commissioner to settle the boundaries between that state and Delaware.

Parker, Daniel

soldier, lawyer, author, was born Jan. 29, 1782, in Shirley, Mass. He became chief clerk in the United States war department in 1810, adjutant and inspector-general, Nov. 22, 1814, paymaster-general in 1821, and in 1841 he returned to the war department as chief clerk. He published an Army Register.