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 PARKER. PARKER. 461 Morton, daughter of William Davis, of Plymouth. In his earlier years Colonel Parker at- tended the common school of his native town, but after the removal of his mother to Boston, he attended a famous private school in Brookfield, where William Bliss, president of the Boston & Albany Rail- road, Charles P. Clark, president of the New York & New Haven Railroad, Stan- ton and Arthur W. Blake and their brother, the late George Baty Blake, were among his fellow-pupils. Later he attended the Adams school and Chauncy Hall school in Boston. HENRY G. PARKER. On his retirement from school, when his entrance into college would have been an easy step, his mother yielded reluctantly to his strongly expressed wishes for an ac- tive life, and he entered as a boy the store of Blanchard, Converse & Co., of Boston. After a year's service there, he became as- sistant book-keeper in the counting-room of Callender, Rogers & Co., also of Bos- ton, where he remained three years. Dur- ing the succeeding three years he was employed as book-keeper by Blodget, Clark & Brown, and subsequently took the position of confidential clerk in the private office of Jordan, Marsh &: Co.'s wholesale establishment, which he held until 1S69. He married, June 7, 1S65, Lucy Joseph- ine, daughter of the late William Brown, well known as a druggist, of Boston. They have no children, their only daughter hav- ing died in 1878. Colonel Parker was a prolific writer and a popular and constant contributor and critic for the " New York Mirror," " Bos- ton Daily Courier," and " Boston Saturday Evening Gazette." In April, 1870, he pur- chased the " Saturday Evening Gazette," and became its proprietor and editor. In 1S69, and again in 1872, he was selected general secretary of the executive committee of the National Peace Jubilee (of which committee the Hon. Alexander H. Rice was chairman). When Mr. Rice was inaugurated governor of Massachu- setts, in 1876, he appointed Colonel Par- ker a member of his staff. He served in this capacity during the three years' term of Governor Rice, anil received the de- served compliment of a re-appointment by Governor Talbot. He purchased an estate in Swampscott in 1882, where he resides a portion of each year, his winter home being on Common- wealth Avenue, Boston. Few men are bet- ter known in club and mercantile life in that city, and the prominence he has ac- quired in the publication of his brilliantly conducted " Gazette " has given him a con- spicuous standing in social circles. PARKER, James Cutler Dunn, son of Samuel Hale and Sarah (Parker) Parker, was born in Boston, June 2, 1828. His early education was obtained at the Adams school, and at the public Latin school, where he was fitted for college un- der E. S. Dixwell. He was graduated from the Latin school in 1843, spent a year at home occupied with various studies, and entered Harvard in 1844. In 1856 the college bestowed upon him the degree of A. M. Immediately after graduating from Har- vard, he entered the law office of Samuel Dunn Parker, county attorney of Suffolk, where he studied until 1851, when circum- stances induced him to change his profes- sion to that of music, and he immediately went abroad, and for three years studied in Leipsic. After six months' travel in Europe he returned to Boston in 1S54, and has pursued the profession of music to the present time in that city. For the past twenty-five years he has been the organist of Trinity church. On the 6th day of September, 1859, Mr. Parker was married, in Boston, to Maria, daughter of John and Rebecca (Punchard)