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 PARKER

PARKER

Parker, and of Gen. Robert Bogordus; great- grandson of Judge Richard and Elizabetli (Beale)

Parker, great-grandson of Alexander and

(Ilarwar) Parker, and a descendant of Thomas and Elinor Parker, who settled in Rapi)ahannock count}', Va., in the 17th century, lie was ap- pointed midshipman in the U.S. navy in 1839, attached to the lAivaut of the "West India squad- ron in 1840. served in Florida against the Indians, and was graduated at the naval scliool, Philadel- phia. Pa., and promoted passed midshipman June 29. 18-13. He served on the Midiigan on the lakes, 1844-45, on the coast survey in 1848, and on the St. Lawrence, Mediterranean squadron, 1849-50. He was promoted lieutenant Sept. 28, 1850; served on the Susqnehamia in the East India squadron, 1851-53, on the coast survey, 1854-55, and in the Pacific squadron, 1859-61. His brother William Ilarwar Parker (q.v.) resigned from the U.S. navy in 18G1 and joined the Confederate navy. Foxhall Alexander Parker was executive officer at the navy yard. "Washington, D.C., 1861-62, and sei-ved with the navy on the Potomac at Alexandria, "Va., where he manned Fort Ellsworth July 23, after the battle of Bull Run, with 250 seamen and ma- rines to protect Washington. He was promoted commander July 16, 1862, and was given com- mand of the U.S. gunboat Mahaska. He com- manded the Wabash off Charleston, S.C, and the naval battery on Morris Island, at the bombard- ment of Fort Sumter, Aug. 17- 23, 1863, and en- gaged the batter- ies on the Poto- - mac and Rappa- ^ luuinock rivers and the Confed- erate forts off Wilmington, N.C. He commanded the Potomac flotilla after September, 1863. He was promoted captain July 25, 1866, and was employed in the bureau of navigation at Washington, D.C. He commanded the Franklin on the European squadron, 1870-71; was chief of staff to the North Atlantic fleet in 1872, and drew up a code of sig- nals for steam tactics September, 1872. He was promoted commodore Nov. 25, 1872; served as chief signal officer of the U.S. navy, 1873-76; and in December, 1874, was detached to act as chief of staff of the united fleets under Admiral Case, assembled for instruction in tactics in the Florida waters. He commanded the navy yard at Boston, Mass., 1876-78, and in 1878 was made superintendent of the U.S. naval institute, Annap- olis, Md., of which he was one of the organizers, Oct. 9, 1873. He prepared by order of the navy department, systems of Fleet Tactics under Steam

(1863), Squadron Tactics under Steam (1863), The Naval Howitzer Afloat (1865), and The Xaval Howitzer .4s/iore(1866), all text bot)ksat the naval academy. He is the author of: The Fleets of the World, The Galley Period (1876), and The Battle of Mobile Bay, and the Capture of Forts Powell, Gaines and Morgan, under the Command of David G. Farragut and Gordon Granger (1878). He died in Annapolis, Md., June 10, 1879.

PARKER, Francis Wayland, educator, was born at Piscataquog, N.H., Oct. 9, 1837; son of Robert and Mille (Rand) Parker; grandson of William and Nabby (Parker) Parker, and of Deacon Jonathan and Sarah (Abbott) Rand; and a descendant of Tliomas Parker, the immigrant, 1635. He was brought up on a farm, and in 1850 entered the academy at Mt. "Vernon, where he paid his tuition by working on a farm during the summers. He taught school in New Hampshire, 1854-58 and then in CarroUton, 111., until 1861, when he entered the 4th New Hampshire volun- teers as a private, subsequently attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel. At Deep Bottom, Va., July 26, 1864, he was severely wounded and taken prisoner and was not released till April 1865. He was brevetted colonel, Aug. 16, 1864, and mustered out in August, 1865. He was prin- cipal of the grammar school in Manchester, N.H., 1865-68; of the district schools in Dayton, Ohio, 1868-71, and studied psychology, philosopliy, history and pedagogy at King William's univer- sity, Berlin, 1871-73. He was superintendent of the schools at Quincy, Mass., 1873-80, where he applied his methods begun in Dayton, Ohio, founded on the theories of Comenius, Pestalozzi. and Frobel, and his influence soon extended all over the country. He was supervisor of schools in Boston, Mass., 1880-83; principal of the Cook county. 111., normal school, 1883-95, and of the Chicago, 111., normal school, 1895-99, and in the latter year became president of the Chicago In- stitute, founded b}^ Mrs. Emmons McCormick Blaine in 1899 and affiliated with the University of Chicago, 1901. He was married Dec. 1, 1864, to Phene H., daughter of Gilbert Perry Hall of Bennington, N.H., who died in 1871; and second- ly, Nov. 23, 1882, to Mrs. Frank Stuart, daughter of Calvin and Dorothy Stuart of Boston, ]\Iass. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the inauguration by him of the " Quincy movement" was cele- brated at Quincy, Mass., April, 1900. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Illinois Society for Child Study, the first organi- zation of its kind in the United States: and editor of: The Elementary School Teacher and Course of Study, a publication begun at the Cook County normal school and continued at the Chicago Institute and the University of Chicago. Dartmouth conferred upon him the honorary