PARKER
PARKER
Dartmouth in 1837 and by Harvard in 1848. He is
the author of : Progress (1840J ; Daniel Webster as
a Jurist (l8od) ; A Charge to the GraiidJuryon the
Uncertainty of Lair (1854); 77te Non-E.vtension of
Slavery ( 1856); Personal Liberty Laics and Slavery
in the Territories (1861); TJie Right of Secession
(1861): Constitutional Law (186"2); Habeas Corj^us
and Martial Laic (186'2),- The War Powers of Con-
gress awl the President {1SG3); Bevolutioii and
Construction (1866); TJie Three Poicers of Gov-
ernment (1869), and Conflict of Decisions (1875).
He died in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 17, 1875.
PARKER, Joel, clergyman and educator, was born in Bethel, Vt., Aug. 27, 1799. He was grad- uated at Hamilton college in 1824, and attended Auburn Theological seminary, 1824-26. He was married. May 9, 1826, to Harriet Phelps of Lenox, N.Y. lie was pastor of the Third Presbyterian church in Rochester, N.Y., 1826-30, being or- dained in February, 1827. He organized and was pastor of the Dey Street Presbyterian church, New York city, 1830-33 ; was pastor of the First Presbyterian church. New Orleans, La., 1833-38, and of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, 1838-40. He was the second president of Union Theological seminary, New York city, and its first professor of sacred rhetoric, 1840-42 ; pas- tor of the Clinton Street Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1842-52 ; of the Bleecker Street church. New York city, 1852-62, and of the Park church, Newark. N.J., 1862-68. He retired from the ministry in 1868 on account of age. He re- ceived the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1839. He was a frequent contributor to the religious press, served at one time as asso- ciate editor of the Presbyterian Quarterly Review and edited Sermons of the Rev. John W. Adams, With a Memoir (1851). He is the author of : Lectures on Unitarianism (1829); Morals for a Young Student (1832); Invitation to True Happi- ness (1843); Reasonings of a Pastor (1849); Notes on Twelve Psalms (1849); Sermons (1852), and Pastor's Initiatory Catechism (1855). He died in New York city. May 2, 1873.
PARKER, Joel, governor of New Jersey, was born near Freehold, N.J., Nov. 24, 1816; son of Charles and Sarah (Coward) Parker ; grandson of Thomas and Sarah (Stout) Parker, and of Capt. Joseph Coward of the Continental army, and a descendant of Joseph Parker, who was settled in Monmouth, N.J., about 1668. Charles Parker was sheriff of Monmouth county ; a member of the New Jersey assembly ; state treasurer for thirteen years, and also .state librarian. His parents removed to Trenton in 1821. Joel Parker was prepared for college at Trenton acad- emy and the Lawrenceville high school, and was graduated at the College of New Jersey. A.B., 1839, A.M., 1842. He studied law under Henry
W. Green at Trenton, was admitted to the bar in
1842, and practised in Freehold, N.J., 1842-80. He
was married in 1843 to Maria M., daughter of
Samuel R. Gumraere of Trenton, N. J. He can-
vassed the state for Van Buren and Johnson
in 1840 and for Polk and Dallas in 1844 ; was a
Democratic member of the state assembly in
1847 ; prosecuting attorney of Monmouth county,
1852-57 ; a presidential elector on the Douglas and
Johnson ticket in 1860, and was commissioned
brigadier-general of the state militia in 1857 and
major-general in 1861. He supported the war
measures of the administration of President Lin-
coln on constitutional grounds : was Ptniocratic
governor of New Jersey, 1863-
66, and was active in the
organization of volunte( i -
On the invasion of Penns\ 1
vania by Lee's army in 1863 '
Governor Parker supplied
Governor Curtin with seveial
organized regiments of New Jersey volunteers.
He kept the quota of New Jersey for the army
up to its full number, and so successfully man-
aged the finances of the state during the civil
war that not a bond of New Jersey was sold be-
low par, and in 1865 thei'e was a surplus of $200,-
000 in the treasury. At the Democratic national
conventions of 1868, 1876 and 1884 he received
the unanimous vote of the New Jersey delega-
tion for President. He was the candidate of the
National Labor Reform convention of 1872 for
Vice-President on the ticket with David Davis
for President, but he declined to accept. He was
again governor of New Jersey, 1872-74 ; was at-
torney-general of the state January to April,
1875 ; a presidential elector on the Tilden and
Hendricks ticket in 1876 ; a justice of the supreme
court for the second district of the state, 1880-88,
and declined a fourth nomination for governor in
1883. He was influential in the erection of the
monument commemorating the battle of Mon-
mouth, which was unveiled Nov. 13, 1884. He
received the degree LL.D. from Rutgers college
in 1872, and was an honorary member of the
New Jersey state branch. Society of the Cincin-
nati. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 2, 1888.
PARKER, John, delegate, was born in Charles-
ton, S.C., Jan. 24, 1749; son of John Parker. He
was educated in England ; graduated in law at
the Middle Temple, London, in 1775 ; practiced
law in Charleston, S.C, and cultivated a rice
plantation near that city. He was elected a
delegate to the Continental congress, serving
1786-88. He was married Dec. 24. 1776, to Susan-
nah, daughter of Henry and Mary (Williams)
Middleton, of South Carolina, and sister of
Arthur Middleton, the signer. He died on his
plantation, near Charleston. S.C. April 20, 1822.
