Background
PARKER, Chauncey Coodrich was born on September 19, 1864 in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
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Chauncey Coodrich PARKER
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Education
St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire. Phillips Exeter Academy. Harvard College, Bachelor of Arts, 1885.
Columbia College Law School, Bachelor of Laws, 1887. Harvard Law School, Master of Arts, 1888.
Career
J. Admitted to New Jersey Bar as Attorney, 1888, Counsel, 1891. Associated in practice in Newark with Sherrerd DePue, ten years. Attorney for Board of Health, Newark, 1890-1894.
Special Counsel for State of New Jersey in boundary controversy with Delaware and as Commissioner of State of New Jersey aided in settling that dispute. Receiver of International Mercantile Marine and of Rock Is. Company, 1915. Counsel, United States Shipping Board, on reorganisation of Board by President Harding, 1921, General Counsel for Board.
; took part in many important litigations such as Virginia. Shipbuilding case, Pusey & Jones case, Skinner and Eddy case, Groton Iron Works case. West Aleta case, and Fleet Corporation vs.
Western Union Telegraph Company Assisted Honorary Hugh R. Wilson, United States Minister at Switzerland, at Third General Conference. held under League of Nations concerning Communications and Transit at Geneva, Switzerland, 1927.
Membership
Member: New York City Bar Association. New Jersey Historical. Society; Newark Art Museum.
Clubs: Essex Company Lawyers (President, 1923), Essex (Newark), Harvard, Union, Down Town (New York City), Metropolitan, Chevy Chase (Washington).
Connections
Spouse Dora M. Wright, November 11, 1896, Newark, N.
