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Parker, William Thornton

surgeon, inventor, author, was born Dec. 24, 1849, in Boston, Mass. He founded the Medical Guild of St. Luke's, and was the originator to provide a National Sanitarium for Consumptives. He was appointed acting professor of American jurisprudence in the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. PARKHILL, CHARLES BRECKIN- RIDGE, lawyer, legislator, was born June 23, 1859, at Tuscawilla, Fla., the plantation home of his parents. His father, Captain George W.

Parkhill, was a member of the secession convention of Florida, and lost his life in the confederate army. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Monticello; then attended the Randolph-Macon college of Ashland, Va.; and finally studied law at the university of Virginia. Since 1883 he has practiced law in Pensacola, Fla.; has been county attorney; and in 1897 was appointed prosecuting attorney for the criminial court of record for the term of four years. In 1888 he was elected state senator; has taken part in the democratic state and congressional conventions, and is recognized as a popular orator of unusual eloquence and ability. In 1890. he was elected grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Florida.

PARKHURST, CHARLES HENRY, clergyman, author, was born April 17, 1842, in Framingham, Mass. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, pastor of the Madison Square church from 1880, and very prominent as a municipal reformer. He is the author of Forms of the Latin Verb Illustrated by the Sanskrit; The Blind Man's Creed: The Pattern on the Mount; Three Gates on a Side; What Would the World Be Without Religion?; The Swiss Guide; and Our Fight with Tammany.