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Parsons, Edward Young

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1842, in Jefferson county, Ky. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-fourth congress. He died July 8, 1876.

PARSONS, MRS. FRANCES THEO- DORA [SMITH] [DANA], author, was born in 1861 in New York. She is a writer of Albany whose books were published under the name of Mrs. William Starr Dana. She is the author of How to Know the Wild Flowers; According to Season; and Plants and Their Children.