Parkman, Francis
historian, author, was born Sept. 16, 1823, in Boston, Mass. He was the foremost of American historians. The work of his life was the series of historical narratives called France and England in North America, begun in 1864 and completed in 1892. He was the author of Pioneers of France in the New World; The Jesuits in North America; La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; The Old Régime in Canada; Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV; A Half Century of Conflict; and Montcalm and Wolfe. The Conspiracy of Pontiac forms a sequel to the work, though first issued in 1857. He died in 1893.