Background
Parker, Clarence Prentice was born on August 17, 1883 in near Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Review William Campbell and Eliza Hunt (Watkins) Parker.
Parker, Clarence Prentice was born on August 17, 1883 in near Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Review William Campbell and Eliza Hunt (Watkins) Parker.
Student Wittenberg, 1902. Ohio University, 1903; Columbia (South Carolina.) Theological Seminary, 1906. Theological department University of the South, 1909.
Rector Christ Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1910-1913, Holy Trinity Church, Hertford, North Carolina, 1913-1916, Christ Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1916-1917. Resigned to engage in war work, principally at Camp Pike, Arkansas. Student chaplain, University of Arkansas, 1919-1925.
Rector Grace Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1925-1926, Norwood Parish, Diocese of Washington, since 1926.
Trustee State Girls’ Industrial Home and School, and City Commision on Recreation for Soldiers, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1917-1918. Member Arkansas Social Service Commission, and Board Examining Chaplains, Protestant Episcopal Church.
Executive secretary Arkansas department of religious education Protestant Episcopal Church. Secretary board of religious education Province of Southwest, Protestant Episcopal Church.
Member of national department of religious education, Protestant Episcopal Church, under religious drama and pageantry, 1923-1926.
Member Arkansas Social Service Commission, and Board Examining Chaplains, Protestant Episcopal Church. Member of national department of religious education, Protestant Episcopal Church, under religious drama and pageantry, 1923-1926. Member National Accredited Teachers’ Association, Protestant Episcopal Church.
Married Harriet L. Coates, of Smithfield, North Carolina, 1915. Children: Achsah J. C., William B. Became deacon, 1910, priest, 1911, P.E. Church.