Edward M. Parker
Edward Melville Parker (July 11, 1855 - October 22, 1925) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Biography
Education
He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Henry Melville Parker and Fanny Cushing (Stone) Parker. He was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire (1868-1874), and at Keble College, Oxford, England (B.A. 1878; M.A. 1881). He received a D.D. from the Berkeley Divinity School in 1906, and a D.C.L. from the Bishop's College (now Bishop's University) in Lennoxville, Quebec, in 1907.
Career
He was ordained priest in 1881. From 1879 to 1906, he was master of St. Paul's School. He was made bishop coadjutor of New Hampshire in 1906 and was bishop from 1914 until 1925.
Marriage
He married Grace Elmendorf of Racine, Wisconsin, in 1885. She died in 1888.
See also
Notes
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References
- Reynolds, Francis J., ed. (1921). . Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company.
- John William Leonard; Albert Nelson Marquis (1910–1911). "Parker, Edward Melville". Who's Who in America. p. 1465.
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- 1855 births
- 1925 deaths
- Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America
- Episcopal bishops of New Hampshire
- People from Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Berkeley Divinity School alumni
- 20th-century Anglican bishops
- 19th-century American Episcopalians
- Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
- People from Merrimack County, New Hampshire