Parker, Hj, Dd

Parker, H.J., D.D.

a Baptist minister, was born at Cavendish, Vermont, November 12, 1812. He was converted at eighteen, graduated from Harvard College in 1840, studied theology at Newton, was ordained in 1842, became pastor at Burlington, Vermont, in 1844; in 1854 removed to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in 1856 became pastor there; in 1861 removed to Austin, Minnesota, in 1872 to California, and died at Riverside, January 30, 1885. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. s.v.