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of Philadelphia, and secondly, Sept. 20, 1827, to Catherine Morris, daughter of Samuel Ogden, of Newark, N.J. He was a Democratic represen- tative in the 23d and Slth congresses, 1833-37, and a member of the state constitutional conven- tion of 1844. While in tlie state legislature he drew up and secured the passage of several laws, including that prohibiting local slavery in 1819, and that establishing the school fund. He was a vice-president of the New Jersey Historical society and its president, 1804-68. He died at Perth Amboy, N.J., April 1, 1868.

PARKER, James Cutler Dunn, musician, was born in Boston, Mass., June 2, 1828 ; son of Sam- uel Hale and Sarah (Parker) Parker, and grand- son of the Rt. Rev. Samuel and Annie (Cutler) Parker. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1848., A.M., 1856; read law in the office of Samuel Dunn Parker, attorney of Suffolk county, 1848-51, aban- doning it for mu- sic and studying in Leipsic, 1851-54. He made a six months' tour of Europe in 1854, and on his re- turn to Boston be- came professor of pi- anoforte in the Bos- ton University Col- lege of Music, accept- ing a similar position in the New England Conservatory of Music in 1871. He was organist of the Handel and Haydn society, 1857-59, and of Trinity church, Boston, 1864-91. He was made the examiner of the New England Conservatory of Music in 1891. He re- ceived the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1856 and Mus. Doc. from Alfred university in 1887. He was married, Sept. 6, 1859, to Maria, daughter of Jolm and Rebecca (Punchard) Derby of Boston. He translated Ernst F. E. Richter's Manual of Harmony, and is the author of Manual of Har- mony (1855). His compositions include: Re- demption Hymn (1877); Blind King (1883); St. John (1890); Life of Man, oratorio (1895), and solos, choruses, orchestra pieces and several church services.

PARKER, Jane Marsh, writer, was born in Milan, N.Y., June 16, 1836 ; daughter of the Rev. Joseph and Sarah (Adams) Marsh ; granddaugh- ter of Lemuel Marsh of Vergennes, Vt., and of Jonathan Adams of Sennett, Cayuga county, N.Y., and a descendant of Captain James Marsh of Kent, England, a royalist who was slain at Marsden Moor, 1644. Joseph IMarsh was a Camp- bellite minister, who became a disciple of Will-

iam Miller, and was a leader in the Second Ad- vent movement, 1843-50. His daughter was educated in Rochester, N.Y., and in 1856 married George T. Parker, a lawyer of Rochester. She became a regular writer for many leading New York daily and weekly newspapers, both relig- ious and secular. She is the author of : Toil- ing and Hoping, novel (1856); The Boy Mission- ary {18o9); The Morgan Boys (ISoQ); Losing the Way {18Q0); Under His Banner (ISQ2); Roches- ter, a Story Historical (1884); The Midnight Cry, a novel founded on the Millerite movement (1886); Life of S. F. B.Morse (1887); Pajjers Re- lating to the Genesee Country (1888), and histor- ical articles for leading naagazines.

PARKER, Joel, jurist, was born in Jaffrey, N.H., Jan. 25, 1795 ; son of Abel and Edith (Jew- ett) Parker ; grandson of Samuel and Mary Rob- bins (Proctor) Parker, and sixth in descent from Samuel Parker, who emigrated from England pri- or to 1643, first settled in Woburn, Mass., in 1644, and was one of the first settlers at Chelmsford. Abel Parker was a native of Westford, and served in the Revolutionary war as 2d lieutenant of the Middlesex and Worcester brigade under Gens. Gates and Heath. Joel Parker attended Groton academy, and was graduated from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1811, A.M., 1814. He studied law with his brother Edmund of Amherst, N.H., was admitted to the bar in Cheshire county in 1817 ; practised at Keene, 1817-21, and at Columbus, Ohio, after 1821. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1824-26 ; associate justice of the superior court of New Hampshire, 1833-38, and chief justice, 1838-48. While associate justice he originated the bill abolishing the court of com- mon pleas and providing that trial terms should be held by a single judge, empowered to try all causes except murder and treason, and giving the court full chancery powers. He was chair- man of the committee ap^jointed to revise the laws of the state in 1840 ; professor of medical jurisprudence at Dartmouth college, 1847-57, and professor of law, 1869-75. He removed to Cam- bridge, Mass., in 1847, and practised law in Bos- ton with his brother-in-law, Horatio G. Parker. He was married, Jan. 20, 1848, to Mary Morse, daughter of Elijah Parker of Keene, N.H. He was Royall professor at Dane Law School, Har- vard universit}^ 1847-75. He was a representa- tive from Cambridge in the constitutional con- vention of 1853 and a member of the commission for the revision of Massachusetts statutes in 1855. In his will he made provisions for founding the professorship of law at Dartmouth college, of which he was a trustee, 1843-60. He was president of the New Hampshire Medical society' and of the Northern Society of Arts and Sciences. The hon- orary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by