Herbert Parker (American politician): Difference between revisions

Parker was born in [[Charlestown, Boston|Charlestown]] (now part of [[Boston]]), [[Suffolk County, Massachusetts]] on March 2, 1856.<ref name=Progress>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/menofprogressone00her/page/335 |title=Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |editor-last=Bacon |editor-first=Edwin M. |editor-link=Edwin Munroe Bacon |publisher=[[The New England Magazine]] |location=Boston |page=335 |year=1896 |access-date=2022-01-19 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> He was a son of George A. Parker and Harriet Newell ({{nee}} Felton) Parker (1822–1914). His brother, Harold Parker, was one of the first highway commissioners in Massachusetts and planned many of the highways in the state.<ref name="1930Election">{{cite news |title=HEADSHeads WOMENWomen'Ss REPUBLICANRepublican CLUBClub: Miss Katherine V. Parker Elected President Active in Public Service, Business Woman, Conducts Large Farm |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86187413/heads-womens-republican-club/ |access-date=29 September 20212022-01-19 |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |date=27 May 1930 |pagespage=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

His maternal grandparents were Anna ({{nee}} Morse) Felton and Cornelius Conway Felton Sr. Among his maternal family were uncles, [[Cornelius Conway Felton]] (the President of Harvard from 1860 to 1862), [[Samuel Morse Felton, Sr.]], [[John B. Felton]],<ref>{{cite book |author=William Bentinck-Smith |title=The Harvard Book: Selections From Three Centuries |year=1982 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-37301-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/harvardbookselec00bent }}</ref> and his cousin was [[Samuel Morse Felton, Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d8170.htm |title=SAMUELSamuel MORSEMorse FELTONFelton FAMILYFamily PAPERSPapers, 1841-1930 |accessdate=2006-02-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060203062056/http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d8170.htm |archivedate=2006-02-03 }}</ref>

He graduated from [[Harvard College]] in 1878.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1906/2/8/hon-herbert-parker-to-speak-tonight/|title=Hon. Herbert Parker to Speak Tonight - News - The Harvard Crimson|website=www.thecrimson.com}}</ref>

* [[Katherine Vose Parker]] (1888–1983), a member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]].<ref name="Harvard1892">{{cite book |last1=of 1878 |first1=Harvard College (1780-) Class |title=Secretary's Report |date=1892 |publisher=Riverside Press |page=164 |url=https://wwwbooks.google.com/books/edition/Secretary_s_Report/?id=cyhOAAAAMAAJ |access-date=29 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

* Haven Parker, who became Assistant Federal District Attorney General of Massachusetts and a judge.<ref name="Reno1901">{{cite book |last1=Reno |first1=Conrad |title=Biographical: Massachusetts |date=1901 |publisher=Century Memorial Publishing Company |url=https://wwwbooks.google.com/books/edition/Biographical_Massachusetts/?id=vWswAQAAMAAJ |access-date=29 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

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