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Parsons, Theophilus

educator, author, was born May 17, 1797, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a noted legal writer, Dane professor of law in Harvard university from 1847, and an eminent Swedenborgian thinker. He was the author of Treatise on the Law of Contracts; Elements of Mercantile Law; The Laws of Business; Maritime Law; Law of Promissory Notes; Principles of the Law of Partnership; The Law of Marine Insurance; Treatise on the Law of Partnership; Political, Personal, and Property Rights of a United States Citizen; Memoir of Chief Justice Parsons; The Ministry of Sorrow; Deus Homo; The Infinite and the Finite; Essays; Outlines of the Religion and Philosophy of Swedenborg; and The Mystery of Life. He died Jan. 26, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass.