Background
James was born on the 9th of February, 1822 in Canterbury, England. The son of James and Ann (Leach) Parton.
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James was born on the 9th of February, 1822 in Canterbury, England. The son of James and Ann (Leach) Parton.
James Parton was taken to the United States when he was five years old, studied in New York City and White Plains, New York, and was a schoolmaster in Philadelphia and then in New York.
Parton was the most popular biographer of his day in America. Parton's nonfiction combined elements of novel writing, which made his books quite popular. Harriet Beecher Stowe once thanked him "for the pleasure you have given me in biographical works which you have had the faculty of making more interesting than romance—(let me trust it is not by making them in part works of imagination). With Ellen (and previously Fanny Fern), he raised Ethel, the daughter of Grace Eldrege (Fanny Fern's daughter) and writer Mortimer Thomson (also known as Philander Doesticks). Although never legally adopted by Parton, she took his last name upon reaching her majority. Ethel Parton became a famous writer of children's books about 19th-century life in Newburyport, MA, published in the 1930s and 1940s.
James Parton was listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who.
James Parton was married tp Sarah pavson Willis, on January 5, 1856. His second marriage was to Ellen Eldredge, February 3, 1876.
