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PARRISH

university in 1900. He is the author of : His Star in the East: Winning of the Soul (1893), and numerous otlier sermons and addresses.

PARLANCE, Charles, jurist, was born in New Orleans, La., July 23, 1851. He studied under private tutors, and attended Centenary college, Jackson, La. He was appointed an honorary L".S. commissioner for Louisana to the Paris ex- position of 1878 ; was a delegate to the constitu- tional convention of 1879; a member of the state senate, 1880-85, and U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Louisiana, 1884-89. He was lieutenant governor of the state, 1892-93; associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, 1893-94, and was appointed judge of the U.S. district court for the eastern district of Louisiana, Jan. 15, 1894.

PARMENTER, William, representative, was born in Boston, Mass., March 30, 1789; son of Ezra and Mary (Ellison) Parmenter; grandson of Samuel Parmenter of Sudbury, Mass., and a descendant of John Parmenter, the immigrant, who came from England about 1638; was original proprietor of Sudbury, and afterward removed to Roxbury, Mass. William Parmenter was grad- uated at the Boston Latin school, where he re- ceived a Franklin medal; served as a clerk in the mercantile house of Pratt & Andrews, Boston, and was chief clerk to AmosBinney, navy agent, during the war of 1812 and for several years thereafter. He resided at E;ist Cambridge, Mass. , 1824-66, and was manager of a glass manufactory, 1824-.36. He was a member of the state senate in 1836, and was a Democratic and Anti-Mason representative from the fourth Massachusetts district in the 2.5th, 26th, 27th and 28th congresses, 1837—45, being chairman of thecommitee on naval affairs during part of his term. He was president of the Middlesex bank, 1832-36; naval officer of the port of Boston, Mass., by appointment from President Polk, 1845-49, and from that year until his death lived in retirement, occasionally super- intending some of the county institutions. He was married in 1815 to Mary, daughter of Thomas Parker of Boston, Mass. Their son, William El- lison (Harvard, 1836), was a.ssociate justice of the municipal court of Boston, 1871-83, and chief justice, 1883-1902; and William Ellison's son, James Parker (Harvard. 1881), was appointed as- sociate justice of the same court in 1902. Ezra, another son of William, was mayor of Cambridge, 1867. William Parmenter died in East Cam- bridge. ^Lass.. Fob. 25. 1866.

PARRIS, Albion Keith, governor of Maine, was born in Hebron. Maine. Jan. 19, 1798; son of Samuel and Sarah (Pratt) Parris; grandson of Benjamin and Millicent (Keith) Parris, and a descendant of Thomas Panis. the immigrant, who came from London, England, to Long Island, X.Y., in 1683. removed to Boston, Mass., and then

to Pembroke, Mass. Samuel Parris served as an officer both on land and sea during the Revolu- tion, and was afterward judge of the court of common pleas for Oxford county, a representa- tive in the general assembly and a presidential elector on the Clinton ticket in 181-2. Albion Keith Parris was gra!- uated at Dartmouth col]^■L;^^ A.B., 1806. A.M., 1809, stu.li law under Chief-Justice Whit- man in New Gloucester and Portland, and was admitted to the 1:.: m lij'j. He was married in 1810 to Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Levi Whitman of Wellfleet. ]\Iass. He set- tled in practice in Paris, was prosecuting attorney for Oxford county in 1811, represented Paris in the general court in 1813, and was a state senator in 1814. He was a Democratic representative from Massachusetts in the 14th and loth con- gresses, 1815-18 ; judge of the district court of the United States for Maine, 1818-20: a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1819; judge of probate for Cumberland county. Me., 1820-21 ; governor of Maine, 1822-26 ; U.S. sena- tor from Maine, 1827-28, resigning in June, 1828, and associate justice of the supreme court of Maine, 1828-36. He was appointed second comp- troller of the U.S. treasury by President Van Buren in 1836 and held the office until 1850, when he resumed practice in Portland. He was elected mayor of Portland in 1852, declined a second nomination in 1853 and was the defeated candi- date for governor in 1854, Anson P. Morrill being elected the first Republican governor of Maine. He died in Portland, Maine, Feb. 11, 1857.

PARRISH, Celestia Susannah, educator, was born in Pittsylvania county, Va., Sept. 12, 1853; daughter of Perkins and Jane (Walker) Parrish ; granddaughter of Abram and Susannah (Giles) Parrish and of Joseph and Susannah (Muse) Walker, and a descendant of William Walker, who settled in Virginia about 1678. She was graduated from Roanoke Female college, 1879 ; from the Virginia State Normal school, 1885 ; from Cornell universitj^ Ph.B., 1896, and pur- sued a post-graduate course at the Universitj' of Chicago in the .summer terms of 1897-99. She was a teacher in the public schools of Pittsylva- nia county, Va., 1871-75; in the city schools of Danville, Pa., and in Roanoke Female college, 1875-84 ; teacher of mathematics in the State Normal school of Virginia, 1884-93, with a year's leave of absence to study in the University of Michigan : professor of mathematics and peda- gogy in Randolph-Macon Woman's college, 1893- 99 ; professor of philosophy in the same college, 1899-1902, and on Feb. 4, 1902, became princii.al of the department of psychology in the State