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degree of A.M. in 1886, and Lawrence university gave him that of LL.D. He is tlie author of : Talks on Teaching (1883); Tlie Practical Teacher (1884); Course in Arithmetic {\SM); How to Teach Geography (1885); Outlines in Geograjjhy (1885) ; How to Study Geography (1889) ; Talks on Peda- gogics (1894:); Uncle Robert's Geography {1898). He died at Pass Christian, Miss., March 2, 1903.

PARKER, Helen Eliza Fitch, author, was born in Auburn, N.Y., Dec. 20, 1827; daughter of Abijah (1799-1883) and Lanah (Nelson) Fitch ; granddaughter of Stephen Fitch of Otsego, N.Y., and of Colonel Neilson, from county Armagh, Ireland, a member of the family whose history is in "Sunrise and Sunset," infra. Slie attended the female seminary at Auburn and engaged in literary work. She was married April 20. 1852, to the Rev. Dr. H. Webster Parker (q.v.). She is the author of: Sunrise and Sunset (1854); Morning Stars of the New WoiM (1854); Ramblers after Land Shells (1863) ; 3Iissions and Martyrs of Mad- agascar (1864) ; Frank's Search for Sea Shells (1866) ; Constance of Aylmer (1869) ; Blind Morette (1871); Arthur's Aquarium (1872). She died in Amherst, Mass., Dec. 4, 1874.

PARKER, Henry, president of Georgia, was born at Savannah, Ga., in 1690. He was bailiff of Savannah in 1734, and in 1741, upon the division of the colony into Frederica and Savannali coun- ties, was chosen assistant president of Savannah county. In 1750 he succeeded President Wil- liam Stephens, resigned, as colonial president or governor, holding the office till the appoint- ment of John Reynolds in 1754. Governor Parker organized the colonial militia and called the first meeting of the colonial assembly, Jan. 15, 1751. He settled a colony at Isle of Hope about eight miles south of Savannah, to which place he retir- ed in 1754, and he died there subsequent to 1777.

PARKER, Henry Webster, author, was born in Dauby, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1822 ; son of the Rev. Samuel (1779-1866) (q.v.) and Jerusha (Lord) Parker. He attended the schools of Ithaca, N.Y., and was graduated from Amherst college A.B., 1843, A.M., 1847, and from the Auburn Theolo- gical seminary in 1846. He was ordained by the presbytery of Cayuga in 1847 and was pastor at Aurora, N.Y., 1847-50; at Dansville, N.Y., 1850-52 ; at Bedford and Central Congregational churches (founding the latter), Brooklyn, N.Y., 1852-56. and at North Congregational church. New Bedford, Mass., 1856-63. After a course of study in the Lawrence Scientific school, Harvard uni- versity, 1863-64, he was Dodge professor of chemistry and natural science at Iowa col- lege, 1864-70 ; professor of mental and moral science in the Massachusetts Agricultural college, Amherst, Mass., 1870-79, and Stone professor of natural history at Iowa college, 1879-89. He

removed to New York city in 1889, devoted him- self to cyclopedia work, was on the editorial staff of the Standard Dictionary, vol. II, and became editor of Popular Science Neivs in 1896. He was married, first, to Helen E. Fitch (q.v.), of Auburn, N.Y., April 20, 1852, and secondly to Susan M. Winkley of Amesbury, Mass., Nov. 6, 1876. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Iowa college in 1886. He is the author of: Poems (1848); The Story of a Soul (1851); a volume of verse (1862); The Spirit of Beauty 1888); and The Agnostic Gospel (1896).

PARKER, Horatio William, musician and composer, was born in Auburndale, Mass., Sept. 15, 1863 ; son of Charles Edward and Isabella Grahame (Jennings) Parker ; grandson of Elijah and Sally (Hall) Parker, and of John and Susan Cornelia (Keyes) Jennings, and a descendant of Thomas Parker, wlio sailed from London in the Susan & Ellen March 11, 1635. He was gradu- ated from the Royal Conservatory of Music, Munich, in 1885, and was married in 1886 to Anna, daughter of Franz and Rosa (Hiibrich) Ploessl, of Munich. He was professor of music at the Cathedral School of St. Paul, Garden City, Long Island, N.Y., 1845-87 ; organist of Holy Trinity, N.Y., 1887-93; and organist of Trinity, Boston, 1893-1901. In 1894 he was appointed Battell pro- fessor of the theory of music at Yale, receiving the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1894, and that of Mus. Doc. from Cambridge (England) University in 1902. He composed the oratorio Hora Novissima which was performed at the Fes- tival of the Three Choirs, Worcester, England, September, 1899 ; and at the Chester. England, Festival in July, 1900 ; the oratorio St. Christopher; the cantatas King Trojan and The Kobolds; and A Wanderer's Psalm, which last was given under his direction at the Hereford festival, Eng- land, in 1900. He conducted St. Christopher at the Three Choirs Festival, in Worcester, Sep- tember 1902, and in Bristol, Oct. 9, 1902.

PARKER, Hosea Washington, repiesentative, was born in Lempster, N.H., May 30, 1833 ; son of Benjamin Parker, a farmer, and Olive (Nicliols) Parker ; and a descendant of Capt. Joseph Parker. He prepared for college at the Green Mountain Liberal institute at South Woodstock, Vt., attended Tufts college, 1855-56 ; studied law at Newport, N.H., 1856-59, and began practice in Claremont, N.H., m 1860. He was married in 1861 to Caroline Lovisa, daughter of Mark and Lovisa (Curtis) Soutligate of Bridgewater, Vt. He represented Sullivan county in the state legislature, 1859-60 ; was a member of the Demo- cratic state committee for many years ; a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1868, 1880 and 1884 ; a representative from the third district of New Hampshire in the 42d and 43d