and received his degree with the class of that year. He was admitted to the bar of Delhi, N. Y., in 1828, and settled in practice there as the partner of his uncle, Amasa Parker. He was in the legislature in 1834, was elected to congress as a Democrat in 1836, serving one term, was appointed circuit judge and vice-chancellor of the 3d district of New York in 1844, and held office till 1847. He was then elevated to the supreme bench of the state. He resumed practice in 1855 in Albany, was an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1856, and again in 1858, and declined the office of U. S. district attorney for the southern district of New York in 1859. After his retirement from the bench he occupied no public office, except that of a delegate to the state constitutional conventions in 1867 and in 1868, but continued in the full practice of his profession, in which he took high rank. He was an active advocate of the reforms by which the court of chancery was abolished, law and equity powers vested in the same tribunal, and the practice of the courts simplified. In 1853 he visited England, and, at the request of Lord Brougham, addressed the Law-reform club on that subject at its annual meeting. He occupied many offices of trust, including the presidency of the board of trustees of Albany medical college, was a regent of the University of New York in 1835-'44, and a trustee of Cornell and of Union. He received the degree of LL. D. His publications include six volumes of law reports (Albany, 1855-'69). He also assisted in preparing the “Revised Statutes” (3 vols., 1859), and edited “The Reports of the Decisions in Criminal Cases” (1858-'77).
PARKER, Daniel, soldier, b. in Shirley, Mass.,
29 Jan., 1782; d. in Washington. D. C., 5 April,
1846. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1801,
read law, and was admitted to the bar in Charlestown,
Mass. He became chief clerk in the U. S.
war department in 1810, adjutant and inspector-general,
22 Nov., 1814, paymaster-general in 1821,
and in 1841 he returned to the war department as
chief clerk. He published an “Army Register”
(Washington, D. C., 1816). — His brother, Leonard
Moody, lawyer, b. in Shirley, Mass., 9 Jan., 1789;
d. there, 25 Aug., 1854, was graduated at
Dartmouth in 1808, began the practice of law in Charlestown,
Mass., was judge-advocate in the U. S. army
in 1812-'14, and after the war resumed his profession.
He was naval officer of Boston in 1830-'4,
retired at the latter date, and for many years afterward
was a member of the legislature.
PARKER, Edward Griffin, lawyer, b. in Boston,
Mass., 16 Nov., 1825; d. in New York city, 30
March, 1868. He was graduated at Yale in 1847,
studied law under Rufus Choate, was admitted to
the bar in 1849, and practised in Boston till the
beginning of the civil war. In 1857-'8 he edited the
political department of the Boston “Traveller.”
He became a volunteer aide on Gen. Benjamin F.
Butler's staff in 1861, and the next year was
adjutant-general and chief of staff to Gen. John H.
Martindale during his command of the Department
of Washington. He settled in New York after the
war, and was in charge of the American literary
bureau of reference. He contributed frequently to
the press, and published “The Golden Age of
American Oratory” (Boston, 1857) and “Reminiscences
of Rufus Choate” (New York, 1860).
PARKER, Edward Lutwyche, clergyman, b.
in Litchfield, N. H., 28 July, 1785; d. in Derry,
N. H., 14 July, 1850. He was graduated at Dartmouth
in 1807, and studied divinity at Hanover,
N. H., and subsequently at Thetford, Vt., and
Salem, Mass. From 1819 until his death he was
pastor of the Presbyterian church in Londonderry,
N. H. He published ten occasional sermons, and
left a “History of Londonderry,” which was printed,
with a memoir (Boston, 1851).
PARKER, Ely Samuel, soldier, b. in the
Indian reservation, Tonawanda, N. Y., in 1828; d. in
Fairfield, Conn., 31 Aug., 1895. He was a
full-blooded Seneca of the Six Nations. After receiving
a careful education in schools in New York state,
he adopted the profession of civil engineering, and
settled in Galena, Ill., where he was the personal
friend of Ulysses S. Grant, and subsequently, during
the civil war, he became a member of the general's
staff. He was appointed assistant adjutant-general
with the rank of captain in May, 1863, and
was afterward secretary to Gen. Grant until the
close of the war. In that capacity he was present
at Lee's surrender, and made the first engrossed
copy of the terms of capitulation. He was
appointed 1st lieutenant of U. S. cavalry in 1866,
resigning in 1869. He was brevetted brigadier-general
of volunteers on 9 April, 1865, and captain,
major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general,
U. S. army, 2 March, 1867. He became
commissioner of Indian affairs in 1869, but retired
in 1871 to devote himself to his profession.
PARKER, Foxhall Alexander, naval officer,
b. in New York city, 5 Aug., 1821; d. in Annapolis,
Md., 10 June, 1879. He was graduated at the
naval school in Philadelphia in 1843, served against
the Florida Indians, and was commissioned
lieutenant, 21 Sept., 1850. He was executive officer at
the Washington navy-yard in 1861-'2, co-operated
with the Army of the Potomac on several occasions
in command of seamen, built Fort Dahlgren, and
drilled 2,000 seamen in the exercise of artillery
and small arms, thereby promoting the success of
Admiral Andrew H. Foote's operations with the
Mississippi flotilla. He became commander on 16
July, 1862, had charge of the steam gun-boat
“Mahaska” in active service off Wilmington and Yorktown,
and of the “Wabash,” off Charleston, from
June to September, 1863, and from the latter date
till the close of the war commanded the Potomac
flotilla, which consisted at one time of forty-two
vessels, and frequently engaged the enemy. In July,
1866, he was promoted captain for “good service
during the rebellion.” He became commodore in
1872, was on special duty in Washington in August
of that year to draw up a code of signals for steam
tactics, and in 1873-'6 was chief signal officer of
the navy. He was chief of staff of the united fleets,
under Admiral Augustus L. Case that assembled
for instruction in the Florida waters in December,
1874, and was one of the founders of the U. S.
naval institute. He died while superintendent of
the U. S. naval academy, to which he was
appointed in 1878. He was for many years a
contributor to newspapers and magazines, and
published “Fleet Tactics Under Steam” (New York,
1863); “Squadron Tactics Under Steam” (1863);
“The Naval Howitzer Afloat” (1865); “ The Naval
Howitzer Ashore” (1865) all of which are text-books
in the U. S. naval academy; “The Fleets of
the World: The Galley Period” (1876); and “The
Battle of Mobile Bay and the Capture of Forts
Powell, Gaines, and Morgan, under the Command
of David G. Farragut and Gordon Granger”
(Boston, 1878). — His brother, William Harwar, naval
officer, b. in New York city, 8 Oct., 1826, was
graduated at the U. S. naval academy in 1848, became
a lieutenant in 1855, and in 1861 entered the
Confederate service. He has published “Instructions
for Naval Light Artillery” (New York, 1862) and
“Recollections of a Naval Officer” (1883).
