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 PARKER

PARKER

Dartmouth in 1837 and by Harvard in 1848. He is the author of : Progress (1840J ; Daniel Webster as a Jurist (l8od) ; A Charge to the GraiidJuryon the Uncertainty of Lair (1854); 77te Non-E.vtension of Slavery ( 1856); Personal Liberty Laics and Slavery in the Territories (1861); TJie Right of Secession (1861): Constitutional Law (186"2); Habeas Corj^us and Martial Laic (186'2),- The War Powers of Con- gress awl the President {1SG3); Bevolutioii and Construction (1866); TJie Three Poicers of Gov- ernment (1869), and Conflict of Decisions (1875). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 17, 1875.

PARKER, Joel, clergyman and educator, was born in Bethel, Vt., Aug. 27, 1799. He was grad- uated at Hamilton college in 1824, and attended Auburn Theological seminary, 1824-26. He was married. May 9, 1826, to Harriet Phelps of Lenox, N.Y. lie was pastor of the Third Presbyterian church in Rochester, N.Y., 1826-30, being or- dained in February, 1827. He organized and was pastor of the Dey Street Presbyterian church, New York city, 1830-33 ; was pastor of the First Presbyterian church. New Orleans, La., 1833-38, and of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, 1838-40. He was the second president of Union Theological seminary, New York city, and its first professor of sacred rhetoric, 1840-42 ; pas- tor of the Clinton Street Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1842-52 ; of the Bleecker Street church. New York city, 1852-62, and of the Park church, Newark. N.J., 1862-68. He retired from the ministry in 1868 on account of age. He re- ceived the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1839. He was a frequent contributor to the religious press, served at one time as asso- ciate editor of the Presbyterian Quarterly Review and edited Sermons of the Rev. John W. Adams, With a Memoir (1851). He is the author of : Lectures on Unitarianism (1829); Morals for a Young Student (1832); Invitation to True Happi- ness (1843); Reasonings of a Pastor (1849); Notes on Twelve Psalms (1849); Sermons (1852), and Pastor's Initiatory Catechism (1855). He died in New York city. May 2, 1873.

PARKER, Joel, governor of New Jersey, was born near Freehold, N.J., Nov. 24, 1816; son of Charles and Sarah (Coward) Parker ; grandson of Thomas and Sarah (Stout) Parker, and of Capt. Joseph Coward of the Continental army, and a descendant of Joseph Parker, who was settled in Monmouth, N.J., about 1668. Charles Parker was sheriff of Monmouth county ; a member of the New Jersey assembly ; state treasurer for thirteen years, and also .state librarian. His parents removed to Trenton in 1821. Joel Parker was prepared for college at Trenton acad- emy and the Lawrenceville high school, and was graduated at the College of New Jersey. A.B., 1839, A.M., 1842. He studied law under Henry

W. Green at Trenton, was admitted to the bar in 1842, and practised in Freehold, N.J., 1842-80. He was married in 1843 to Maria M., daughter of Samuel R. Gumraere of Trenton, N. J. He can- vassed the state for Van Buren and Johnson in 1840 and for Polk and Dallas in 1844 ; was a Democratic member of the state assembly in 1847 ; prosecuting attorney of Monmouth county, 1852-57 ; a presidential elector on the Douglas and Johnson ticket in 1860, and was commissioned brigadier-general of the state militia in 1857 and major-general in 1861. He supported the war measures of the administration of President Lin- coln on constitutional grounds : was Ptniocratic governor of New Jersey, 1863- 66, and was active in the organization of volunte( i - On the invasion of Penns\ 1 vania by Lee's army in 1863 ' Governor Parker supplied Governor Curtin with seveial organized regiments of New Jersey volunteers. He kept the quota of New Jersey for the army up to its full number, and so successfully man- aged the finances of the state during the civil war that not a bond of New Jersey was sold be- low par, and in 1865 thei'e was a surplus of $200,- 000 in the treasury. At the Democratic national conventions of 1868, 1876 and 1884 he received the unanimous vote of the New Jersey delega- tion for President. He was the candidate of the National Labor Reform convention of 1872 for Vice-President on the ticket with David Davis for President, but he declined to accept. He was again governor of New Jersey, 1872-74 ; was at- torney-general of the state January to April, 1875 ; a presidential elector on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876 ; a justice of the supreme court for the second district of the state, 1880-88, and declined a fourth nomination for governor in 1883. He was influential in the erection of the monument commemorating the battle of Mon- mouth, which was unveiled Nov. 13, 1884. He received the degree LL.D. from Rutgers college in 1872, and was an honorary member of the New Jersey state branch. Society of the Cincin- nati. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 2, 1888. PARKER, John, delegate, was born in Charles- ton, S.C., Jan. 24, 1749; son of John Parker. He was educated in England ; graduated in law at the Middle Temple, London, in 1775 ; practiced law in Charleston, S.C, and cultivated a rice plantation near that city. He was elected a delegate to the Continental congress, serving 1786-88. He was married Dec. 24. 1776, to Susan- nah, daughter of Henry and Mary (Williams) Middleton, of South Carolina, and sister of Arthur Middleton, the signer. He died on his plantation, near Charleston. S.C. April 20, 1822.