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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.