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Parsons, Anson Virgil

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1799 in Granville, Mass. In 1840 he was president judge of the court of common pleas of the Dauphin judicial district. In 1842 he became secretary of the commonwealth. He returned to the bench as judge of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia in 1843.

He resumed practice in 1851, when the judiciary became elective. With Judge Edward King, he published Select Cases in Equity, in two volumes. He died Sept. 23, 1882, in Philadelphia, Pa.