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 PARDEE

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Luzerne county, and secondly, in 1849, to Anna Maria, daughter of William Robinson of Blooms- bury, Pa. He died while on a visit to Rock Ledge, Indian River, Fla.. March 20, 1892.

PARDEE, Don Albert, jurist, was born in Wadswortli, Oliio. :\Iarch 29, 18:57; son of Aaron and Eveline (Eyle.s)Pardee ; grandson of Ebenezer and Anna (Minon) Pardee and of William and Polly (Diithick) Eyles, and a descendant of George Pardee, settled in New Haven, Conn., li.'tween 1(5:37 and 1642. He was appointed to the U.S. naval academy in 1854, but left in 1857 to study law with his father, and was admitted to t'.ie bar in 1859. He entered the volunteer army in 1861 as major of the 42d Ohio regiment, was ]>romoted lieutenant-colonel, and took part in the battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Raymond, Champion's Hill, and in two assaults on Vicksburg, serving during the siege as inspector-general of the 13th corps. He was mustered out in December, 1864, and on March 13, 1835, was brevetted colonel and briga- dier-general. He practised law in New Orleans, 1865-67; was registrar in bankruptcy for the tiiird congressional district of Louisiana, 1867-68 ; judge of the 2d judicial district ; 1868-81 ; member of the state constitutional convention of 1879 ; Republican candidate for attorney-general of Louisian.-i, 1880, and in 1881 was appointed circuit judge for the fifth judicial circuit embracing Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. In June, 1898, he removed from New Orleans to Atlanta, Ga.

PARET, William, sixth bishop of Maryland, and i:37th in succession in the American episco- pate, was born in New York city, Sept. 23, 1826 ; son of John and Hester (Levi) Paret ; and grand- son of Stephen Paret, a native of Tricolet, France, who immigrated to America and settled in New York about 1765. William Paret was prepared for col- lege in the grammar school of Columbia college, and gi'adua- ted at Hobart in 1849 and the same year was married to Maria G., daughter of Isaac and Agnes Peck of Flushing, L.L, N.Y. He was prepared for holy orders under Bishop William H. Delancey ; was admitted to the diaconate by Bishop Chase in 1852 and was ordained priest in 1853. He was rector of St. John's church, Clyde, N. Y,, 1852-54; Zion church, Pierre[)ont Manor,

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N.Y., 1854-64 ; St. Paul's church, Saginaw Mich., 1864-66; Trinity church, Elmira, N.Y., 1860-68; Christ church, Williamsport, Pa., 1868-76, and Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C., 1876- 84. He was elected bishop of Maryland in 1884 to succeed Bishop William Pinkney who died July 7, 1883, and he was consecrated in the Church of the Epipliany, Wasiiington, D.C.. Jan. 8, 1885, by Bishops Lee, Lay, Stevens, Neely, Howe, Lyman and Whitehead. By his counsel and influence the new diocese of Washington was created out of the diocese of IMaryland in 1895, but he con- tinued from choice to administer in his old dio- cese. He received from Hobart college the de- gree of D.D. in 1867, and LL.D. in 1880. He was married secondly, in 1900, to Mrs. Sarah Hayden Haskell, daughter of Levi G. and Mary E. (Belden) Hayden. He is the author of St. Peter and the Primacy of the Roman See; Our Freedom and Our Catholic Heritage, and The Method and Work of Lent.

PARK, Edwards Amasa, theologian, was born in Providence, R.I., Dec. 29, 1808 : son of the Rev. Dr. Calvin (1774-1847) and Abigail (Ware) Park; grandson of Nathan and Ruth (Bannister) Park, and a descendant on his maternal side of the Rev. Samuel Ware of Wrentliam, INIass. He w^as graduated from Brown university in 1826, and from the Andover Theological seminary in 1831. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1831, and was pastor of the First church, Braintree, Mass., 1831-33 : and professor of mental and moral philosophy and Hebrew literature at Amherst college, 1835-36. He was married in 1836 at Hunter, N.Y., to Ann Maria, daughter of William and Rebecca (Tappan) Ed- wards, and great-granddaughter of the Rev. Jon- athan Edwards. He was professor of sacred rhe- toric at Andover Theological seminary, 1830-47 ; professor of Christian theology, 1847-81, and pro- fessor emeritus, 1881-1900. He was one of the foremost upholders of the Andover creed, and became involved in a controversy with several fellow jirofessors, in which he held that their teachings were inconsistent with the creed. The case was brought before an ecclesiastical court, by which Dr. Park was not sustained. The hon- orary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Harvard in 1844, and by Brown in 1840, and that of LL.D. by Brown in 1886. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical society, the New England Historic Gt^nealogical society, and the Victoria Institute of England ; a fellow of Brown university, 1863-1900 ; a trustee of Smith college ; ]«-esident of the board of trustees of Abbot acad- emy for thirty-six years, and a charter member of the A.B.C.F.M. He founded and edited the Bibliotheca Sacra (A vols.. 1844-84). and was a member of the staff of the Sabbath Hymn Book.