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Parsons, Frank

lawyer, author, was born in 1855 in New Jersey. He is a lawyer of Boston; and the author of The World's Best Books; and Our Country's Need, or the Development of a Scientific Industrial System. He has edited several legal works.

Parsons, George Frederic

journalist, author, was born in 1840 in England. He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of Life of J. W. Marshall, Discoverer of Gold in California; and Middle Ground, a novel.

Parsons, Henry Betts

chemist, educator, author, was born Nov. 20, 1855, in Asia Minor. His Method for the Proximate Analysis of Plants was published in the chief chemical journals of the world, and universally adopted. He died Aug. 21, 1885, in Tucson, Ariz.

Parsons, J. D

librarian. He is librarian of the public library of Newburyport, Mass.; and is a constant contributor to current publications.

Parsons, Jonathan

clergyman, author, was born in 1705 in Massachusetts. He was a presbyterian minister of Newburyport, who adopted the views of Whitefield, and in whose house that famous preacher died. He was the author of Lectures on Justification; Good News from a Far Country, said to be the first book published in New Hampshire; Sixty Sermons; and Freedom from Ecclesiastical and Civil Slavery the Purchase of Christ. He died in 1776.

Parsons, Levi

lawyer, jurist, railroad president, was born July 1, 1822, in Kingsboro, N. Y. He was elected judge of the San Francisco district in 1850, subsequently engaged in business, and built the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, of which he became the first president.

He died Oct. 23, 1887, in New York city.

Parsons, Lewis Baldwin

soldier, lawyer, was born April 5, 1818, in Genesee county, N. Y. In 1864 he was placed in charge of all railroad and river army transportation in the United States. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865, and in 1866 was brevetted major-general of volunteers.

Parsons, Lewis E

governor. He was appointed provisional governor of Alabama in 1865.

Parsons, Mosby Monroe

soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born in 1819 in Virginia.

He was attorney-general of Missouri in 1853-57, and subsequently became a member of the state senate. He was active in organizing the state militia, and raised a mounted brigade which he commanded with the rank of brigadiergeneral. He died Aug. 17, 1865, in Camargo, Mexico.

Parsons, Theophilus

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 24, 1750, in Byfield, Mass. He was a jurist of Newburyport and after 1800 of Boston, and chief justice of Massachusetts from 1801.

He was the author of Commentaries on the Law of the United States; and The Essex Result, a famous political pamphlet of 1777. He died Oct. 30, 1813, in Boston, Mass.

Parsons, Usher

surgeon, was born Aug. 8, 1788, in Alfred, Maine. He was a surgeon of Providence; and the author of The Art of Making Anatomic Preparations; Prize Dissertations; Sailors' Physician; History of the Battle of Lake Erie; and Life of Sir William Pepperell. He died Dec. 19, 1868, in Providence, R. I.

Parsons, William

surveyor, was born in England. In 1743 he was appointed surveyor-general of Pennsylvania, resigning in 1748. He died in December, 1757, in Easton, Pa.

PARTHEMORE, E. WINFIELD SCOTT, business man, author, was born July 25, 1852, in Highspire, Pa. He is largely interested in building and loan associations. He is the author of A Genealogy of the Parthemore Family; and A Genealogy of the Luding Bretz Family.