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Parker, Theodore 1810-
Clergyman; born in Lexington, Mass., Aug. 24, 1810.
His grandfather, Capt. John Parker, commanded the company of minute-men in the skirmish at Lexington.
Theodore began to study Latin at ten years of age, Greek at eleven, and metaphysics at twelve.
He was an earnest naturalist, and before he was ten ve law. It was quashed.
In 1859 hemorrhage of the lungs terminated his public career.
He sailed first to Santa Cruz, thence to Europe, spending the winter
Theodore Parker. of 1859-60 in Rome, whence, in April, he set out for home, but only reached Florence, where he died, May 10, 1860.
He bequeathed 13,000 valuable books to the Public Library of Boston.
The following are extracts from Parker's oration on the dangers of slavery:
I. Will there be a separation of the two elements, and a formation of two distinct states—freedom with democracy, and slavery with a tendency to despotism?
That may save one-half the nation, and leave the other to volun
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Story , William Wetmore 1819 -1895 (search)
Story, William Wetmore 1819-1895
Sculptor; born in Salem, Mass., Feb. 12, 1819; son of Joseph Story; graduated at Harvard College in 1838 and at its Law Department in 1840, but gave little attention to practice, and in 1848 removed to Italy.
He was United States commissioner on fine arts to the Paris exposition in 1879.
His works include a statue of George Peabody and busts of James Russell Lowell, Theodore Parker, Josiah Quincy, etc., and his publications, Life and letters of Joseph story; The American Question, etc. He died in Vallombrosa, Italy, Oct. 7, 1895.
Weiss, John 1818-1879
Author; born in Boston, Mass., June 28, 1818; graduated at Harvard College in 1837, and at Harvard Divinity School; and became pastor of a Unitarian church in Watertown in 1843, and again in 1859.
In 1870 he retired to devote himself to literature.
He published Aesthetic prose, a translation of Schiller's philosophical and aesthetic essays, and Life and correspondence of Theodore Parker.
He was attached to the transcendental school of philosophy, and was an earnest abolitionist and advocate of woman's rights.
He died in Boston, Mass. March 9, 1879.