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Parker, Edward Griffin

lawyer, author, was born Nov. 16, 1825, in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer of New York city; and the author of The Golden Age of American Oratory; and Reminiscences of Rufus Choate. He died March 30, 1868, in New York city.

Parker, Gilbert

author, was born in 1861, in Ontario, Canada. He is a popular Canadian novelist now living in the United States; and the author of Pierre and His People; Tales of the Far North; An Adventurer of the North; A Romany of the Snows; A Lover's Diary; When Valmond Came to Pontiac; The Seats of the Mighty; and The Pomp of the Lavillettes.

Parker, Mrs. Helen Fitch

author, was born Dec. 20, 1827, in Auburn, N. Y. She was the author of Sunrise and Sunset; Morning Stars of the New World; Rambles After Land Shells; Missions and Martyrs of Madagascar; Frank's Search for Sea Shells; Constance of Aylmer, a tale; Blind Florette; and Arthur's Aquarium. She died Dec. 4, 1874, in Amherst, Mass.

Parker, Henry

governor, was born about 1690, near Savannah, Ga. During 1750-54 he was governor of Georgia. He died about 1778, on the Isle of Hope, Ga.

Parker, Henry Langdon

lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 7, 1832, in Acton, Mass. During 1887-90 he was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature, and has filled several judicial positions.

Parker, Henry Webster

educator, clergyman, poet, was born Sept. 7, 1824, in Danby, N. Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of mental science in Iowa college from 1879; and the author of The Story of a Soul, a poem; and Verse.

Parker, Hosea W

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 30, 1833, in Lempster, N. H. He was a member of the legislature of New Hampshire in 1859. He was elected to the fortysecond and forty-third congresses.

Parker, Isaac C

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1838, in Belmont county, Ohio. He removed to St. Joseph, Mo.; and was elected city attorney in 1862 and 1863. In 1868 he was elected circuit judge for six years, but resigned in 1870; and was elected to the forty-second and fortythird congresses. In 1875 he was appointed chief justice of Utah; and in March of the same year was appointed United States district judge for the western district of Arkansas.

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 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.