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Elijah Parish was born on November 7, 1761 in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut, United States. He was the son of Elijah and Eunice (Foster) Parish. His mother being descended from the Standish family.
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Elijah Parish was born on November 7, 1761 in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut, United States. He was the son of Elijah and Eunice (Foster) Parish. His mother being descended from the Standish family.
Elijah Parish prepared for college at Plainfield Academy and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1785, graduating with high honors. Three years later, perhaps upon his return to Hanover for his master of arts degree, he was admitted to the newly organized chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Having chosen the ministry as a profession, he studied theology under the Reverend Ephraim Judson of Taunton, Massachussets.
On December 20, 1787, Elijah Parish was installed as pastor of the Congregational church at Byfield, Massachussets, where he remained until his death. As a pastor, he was unusually successful and at his death there was not a more united parish in the state. Indeed, he appears to have quite dominated the life of his people, for "it is in no respect an exaggeration to say that any opinion expressed in opposition to their pastor, political, religious, or regarding measures of policy, would have had little chance of finding favour among his people". His preaching had vividness and power.
He was asked to preach the annual election sermon of 1810 before the legislature, he attacked the national administration so acrimoniously that the legislature, gravely offended, refused him the usual compliment of requesting a copy of the sermon for publication. His published sermons were equally vigorous, denouncing the War of 1812. In later years, however, his interest in politics waned. Eighteen of his sermons and three occasional addresses were published.
Elijah Parish also assisted the Reverend Jedidiah Morse in his geographical and historical works, publishing in collaboration, A New Gazetteer of the Eastern Continent (1802) and A Compendious History of New England (1804). In 1810 he published his own New System of Modern Geography for schools, and three years later, Sacred Geography; or, A Gazetteer of the Bible. He also wrote, with the Reverend David McClure, Memoirs of the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, D. D. , Founder and President of Dartmouth College and Moor's Charity School (1811). A posthumous volume of his sermons with a brief sketch of his life appeared in 1826.
Elijah Parish died on October 15, 1825.
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In his theological views, Elijah Parish was Hopkinsian and therefore of the strictest Congregational orthodoxy.
Elijah Parish was a leading opponent of the Jeffersonian Republican Party.
Quotations: "Politics is like the variolus contagion, no man catches it a second time. "
Elijah Parish was a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
Elijah's Parish conversational gifts were also exceptional, and he was noted for his quickness in repartee. He was somewhat below middle stature, of a piercing eye, and rapid in his motions.
On November 7, 1796, Elijah Parish married Mary Hale, daughter of Deacon Joseph Hale of Byfield. They had five children.