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 PARKER. PARKER. 459 i847-'8i. Thus he has held a professor- ship in the seminary forty-five years, and has been connected with it in some capac- ity nearly fifty-six years. In i842-'43, also in 1862-63, he visited Great Britain, France, Switzerland and Germany. During these two visits he spent much of his time at the German universities — four months at Marburg, four months at Berlin, and three months at Halle. In iS6c)-'7o he made the tour of Italy, Greece, Egypt and Palestine. He has published numerous essays in theological quarterlies ; sixteen or seven- teen pamphlets ; four volumes of memoirs ; the first a memoir of Rev. William Brad- ford Homer ; the second, of Professor B. B. Edwards ; the third, of Dr. Samuel Hopkins ; the fourth, of Dr. Nathanael Emmons. In 1844 he united with Pro- fessor B. B. Edwards in establishing the " Bibliotheca Sacra," and was its chief editor from 1851 till '84. He was en- gaged in the publication of forty volumes of this quarterly. In connection with Professor Austin Phelps and Dr. Lowell Mason, he edited the " Sabbath Hymn Book," which reached a circulation of about a hundred and twenty thousand copies between 1S59 and '66. His first published essay appeared in 1S26 ; his last pamphlet contained ninety-eight pages, and appeared in 1883 ; his last publication was a volume of " Discourses on some Theological Doctrines as related to Re- ligious Character," and appeared in 1883. For more than thirty years he has been president of the board of trustees of Abbott Academy at Andover ; by the will of the founder, he was appointed one of the original trustees of Smith College at Northampton ; since 1865 he has been a member of the board of fellows of Brown University. He has been elected a mem- ber of the Victoria Institute in England, and of several historical societies in the United States. PARKER, Charles Wallingford, son of Charles and Mary Hildreth (Wal- lingford) Parker, was born in Framing- ham, Middlesex county, June 27, 1831. He was educated in the district school and at Framingham Academy, until the age of fifteen. April 20, 1847, he was employed in a retail clothing store in Worcester. In 1849 he entered the employ of Addi- son Macullar — his former fellow-clerk — and in i860 he became a partner in the house. His business connection with Mr. Macullar has continued for over forty years. The well-known clothing firm of Macul- lar, Parker & Company — still under Mr. Parker's management — occupies, by gen- eral consent, the first position in its special line in New England. Mr. Parker was married in Chelsea, No- vember 30, 1854, to Mary J., daughter of Charles E. and Ann (Huse) Schoff. Of this union were five children : Mary, Charles S., Herman, Allston, and Ross Parker, all of whom are living except- ing Allston. Mr. Parker has studiously avoided all methods that lead to political preferment, finding in letters, in art, and in foreign CHARLES W, PARKER. travel, as well as in a conscientious dis- charge of manifold duties as a private cit- izen, employer, and parent — work more satisfactory to his quiet tastes and unob- trusive character. For many years he was the chairman of the executive committee of the Church of the Disciples, and one of the circle of James Freeman Clarke's personal friends and warm supporters. In landscape gardening at his summer place, " Redgate," in Marblehead, Mr. Parker has been instrumental in reclaim- ing an unpromising territory of considera- ble extent to a state of rare beauty and culture.