Parton, James
author, was born Feb. 9, 1822, in England. He was a popular writer of English birth who came to America when very young and for the latter part of his life resided in Newburyport. The permanent value of his writing is not great, with the possible exception of his Life of Voltaire. He was the author of Lives of Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Franklin, Jefferson; General Butler in New Orleans; Famous Americans of Recent Times; Smoking and Drinking; Captains of Industry; Triumphs of Enterprise; Noted Women of America and Europe; The People's Book of Biography; Caricature and Other Comic Art; and Topics of the Times. He died in 1891.
PARTON, MRS. SARAH PAYSON [WILLIS] [ELDRIDGE], author, was born July 7, 1811, in Portland, Maine. She was a once popular but now neglected writer who for some sixteen years contributed a weekly article to The New York Ledger. She was the author of Rose Clark, a novel; Ruth Hall, a, novel more or less autobiographic; Fern Leaves; Folly as It Flies; Ginger Snaps; and Caper Sauce. She died Oct. 10, 1872.