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Parrish, Joseph – Parsons, David

Parrish, Joseph

physician, author, was born Nov. 11, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a physician of Burlington, N. J., famous as an authority upon the treatment of inebriates; and the author of Alcoholic Inebriety from the Medical Standpoint. He died in 1891.

Parrish, Rob Roy

poet, was born Jan. 15, 1846, in Noble county, Ohio. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Echoes From the Vale. PARROTT, ENOCH GREENLEAF, naval officer, was born Dec. 10, 1814, in Portsmouth, N. H. He entered the United States navy as a midshipman in 1831, became lieutenant in 1841. He was commissioned captain in 1866, commodore in 1870, rear-admiral in 1873, and was retired in 1874. He died May 10, 1879, in New York city.

Parrott, John Francis

state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1768 in Greenland, N. H. He was in 1811 a member of the New Hampshire legislature; a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1817 to 1819; and a senator of the United States from 1819 to 1825. In 1826 he was appointed postmaster at Portsmouth. He died July 9, 1836, in Greenland, N. H.

Parrott, Marcus J

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1828, in Hamburg, S. C. He was a member of the Ohio legislature in 1853 and 1854.

He was elected a delegate to the thirtyfifth congress from Kansas territory; and re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress.

Parrott, Matt

journalist, legislator, was born May 11, 1837, in Schoharie, N. Y. He is a noted journalist of Waterloo, Iowa, of which city he has been mayor. For eight years he served as a state senator in the Iowa legislature, and is now serving as lieutenant-governor of that state.

Parson, Samuel H

lawyer, jurist.

He was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory northwest of the Ohio river.

Parsons, Albert Ross

musician, composer, was born Nov. 16, 1847, in Sandusky, Ohio. He has attained national prominence as a musician of New York city; and has composed many pieces.

Among his best known are: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes; Break, Break; Etude; and many other pieces.

Parsons, Andrew

state senator, governor, was born July 22, 1817, in Hoosick, N. Y. In 1846 he was elected to the Michigan state senate; and in 1853 was elected governor, resigning in 1855.

He died June 6, 1855.

Parsons, Charles

artist, was born May 8, 1821, in England. Since 1861 he has been at the head of the art department of Harper and Brothers. Among his recent paintings are An Old Orchard, Long Island; and Amagansett, L. I.

Parsons, Charles

railroad president, was born Feb. 6, 1829, in Alfred, Maine. Since 1894 he has been president of the South Carolina and Georgia railway.

Parsons, Charles William

physician, educator, author, was born Sept. 6, 1823, in Providence, R. I. He settled in practice in Providence; was professor of physiology in Brown in 1874-82; and is the author of two Fiske fund prize dissertations, and many medical and historical papers.

Parsons, David

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 28, 1749, in Amherst, N. H.

He gave the ground on which Amherst college is built; contributed to its support; and wrote Election Sermon; and Ordination Sermon. He died May 18, 1823, in Wethersfield, Conn.