Background
He entered College from Boston, where he was born, and graduated from Yale College in 1847.
He entered College from Boston, where he was born, and graduated from Yale College in 1847.
On graduating studied law in the office of the Honorary
Rufus Choate. Being admitted to the bar in 1849, he commenced practice in the same city, where he continued until the war. During his residence in Massachusetts, he published The Golden Age of American Oratory (Boston, 1857), and Reminiscences of Rufus Choate (North Y, 1860). He was also a contributor to some of the leading literary journals.
On the breaking out of the American Civil War, Colonel
Parker (having acquired his itle from his position on the staff of Government Nathaniel P Banks) entered, the service as Captain on General Butler"s staff Martindale during the time that the latter commanded the Department of Washington.
At the close of the war he settled in New York, and went into business in Wall Saint Not being particularly successful he took charge of the American Literary Bureau of Reference, and was thus engaged at the time of his death, at the Everett House in New York City, March 30. 1868, aged 42 years. He left a wife.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
He was prominent in State politics, and a member of both houses of the Massachusetts Legislature.