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LEFT FABKEB 120 FABKEB after the passage of a number of years had given them a reminiscent and hal- lowed character. An endeavor is made to preserve them in the condition they were in when the events commemorated occurred. PARKEB, ALTON BEOOKS, an American jurist and publicist; born in Cortland, N. Y., in 1852. Studied at academies and schools and graduated from the Albany Law School in 1873. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Ulster co. from 1877 to 1885. In the latter year he was appointed chairman of the State Democratic Committee. He was justice of the Supreme Court of New York in 1885 and a member of the Court of Appeals from 1889 to 1902. From 1898 to 1904 he was chief justice of this court and resigned to accept the Demo- cratic nomination for the presidency. He took a prominent part in political affairs, serving as chairman of the Demo- cratic State Convention in 1908. He ALTON B. PARKER served as chief counsel in many impor- tant cases in New York and elsewhere. He was president of the American Bar Association in 1906 and 1907. PARKEB, EDWARD MELVILLE, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop; born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1885. He was educated at St. Paul's School, Con- cord, N. H., and at Keble College, Oxford, England. He was ordained priest in 1881. From 1879 to 1906 he was master of St. Paul's School. He was made bishop coadjutor of New Hampshire in 1906 and became bishop in 1914. PARKER, GILBERT, a Canadian novelist; born in Ontario, in 1862, Among his works are: "Pierre and His Sm GILBERT PARKER People"; "Tales of the Far North"; "An Adventurer of the North"; "A Romany of the Snows"; "A Lover's Diary" (1894); "The Trail of the Sword" (1894) ; "When Valmond Came to Pon- tiac"; "The Seats of the Mighty"; "Lad- der of Swords" (1904); "The Judgment House" (1913) ; "World in the Crucible" (1915); "Wild Youth and Another" (1919). He served for several years in Parliament, Knight, 1902; baronet, 1915, PARKER, HERSCHEL CLIFFORD, American mountain climber. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1867, and graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 1890. Some years later he ex- plored the Canadian Alps, prospecting, surveying, and studying mineralogy and general physics. He began to teach physics in Columbia University in 1903, and at intervals explored the mountains of Alaska, ascending to the summit of Mt. McKinley, after a previous attempt