Background
Mccollester, Parker was born on September 5, 1890 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Lee S. and Lizzie (Parker) Mccollester.
Mccollester, Parker was born on September 5, 1890 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Lee S. and Lizzie (Parker) Mccollester.
Student Phillips Exeter Academy. Bachelor of Arts, Tufts College, 1911. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard, 1914.
Admitted to Massachusetts bar, New York bar. Associate Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter, Boston, 1914-1916. Assistant general solicitor New York City R.R., 1916-1917, 1919-1926.
Partner Lord, Day & Lord since 1926. Special assistant attorney general New York State, various rate cases since 1929. General counsel Corn Products Refining Company, Association American Shipowners, Associate Latin American Steamship Confs.
Director W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., Irving R. Boody & Company, Inc., Motor Haulage Company Chief United States Economics Mission to France, 1944. Delegate International Conference German External Debt, London, 1952-1953. Member Attorney General’s advising committee to study antitrust laws.
Director Juilliard School Music, New York City. Director, secretary New York Philharmonic Symphony. Trustee Barnard College, Columbia, Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts, Gramercy Park, New York, St. John’s Guild, New York.
Served as First lieutenant transportation corporations, United States Army, 1917-1919. Member American, New York State bar associations, Association Interstate Commerce Commission Practitioners (president), New York City Bar Association, American Law Institute, Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta Psi. Clubs: Century, Downtown, Whitehall, Harvard (New York City).
Married Dorothea Baldwin, September 7, 1921. Children: Roger Sherman, Duncan Lee, Ann Parker (Mistress John B. Emerson).