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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 he knew all the trees and shrubs of Massachusetts.
In 1829 he entered Harvard College, but did not graduate; taught school until 1837, when, having studied divinity at Cambridge, he was settled over a Unitarian society at West Roxbury.
He became an acute controversialist, for he was a profound thinker, and had the courage of his convictions.
In 1846 he became minister of the 28th Congregational Society in Boston, which, in November, 1852, occupied Music Hall for the first time.
Parker became the most famous preacher of his time.
His place of worship was always crowded, and people came from all parts of the country to hear him. He urgently opposed the war