Background
Parsons, Lester Shields was born on September 7, 1886 in near Bristol, Virginia, United States. Son of Zion and Elizabeth Alice (Skaggs) Parsons.
Parsons, Lester Shields was born on September 7, 1886 in near Bristol, Virginia, United States. Son of Zion and Elizabeth Alice (Skaggs) Parsons.
Student Randolph Macon College, 1907, University of Virginia, 1908-1911. Selected courses.
Admitted to Virginia bar, 1915. Member of law department Southern Railway, 1912-1917, assistant division counsel, 1917. Specializing in insurance, corporation law, Norfolk, since 1920.
Assistant United State Attorneys Eastern District Virginia, 1921-1925, special assistant attorney general United States, 1925. Now maritime counsel Small Business Administration.
Member Assay communications of the United States Mint, 1959. Member American, Virginia (vice president 1942), Norfolk, Portsmouth bar associations. Member Resolutions, Platform committee, sub-committee civil rights).
Mason, Elk, Knights of Pythias. Club: Virginia (Norfolk).
Married Lessye Belle Shuler, September 17, 1913. Children: Virginia Parsons (Mistress Amster K. Howard), Lester Shields, Junior.