Theophilus Parsons (professor)
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| Born | 1797 |
| Died | 1882 (aged 85) |
| Education | Harvard College (1815) |
| Children | Emily Elizabeth Parsons |
| Father | Theophilus Parsons |
| Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School | |
| In office 1848–1870 | |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Columbus Langdell |
Theophilus Parsons (1797–1882) was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard from 1848 to 1870.
Parsons is remembered chiefly as the author of a series of useful legal treatises and some books in support of Swedenborgian doctrines.[1] In 1824, he took a position as editor of the new United States Literary Gazette.[2] He wrote a biography of his father, an American jurist who was also named Theophilus Parsons (1749–1813). It was published in Boston in 1859.[3] He also edited and published the Civil War letters of his daughter, Emily Elizabeth Parsons, a nurse and administrator of Benton Barracks military hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.[4]
He graduated from Harvard College in 1815.[5]
Works
[edit]- "Distinguished Lawyers," Albany Law Journal Aug. 20, 1870, pp 126-7 online.
- A treatise on the law of partnership (1866) online
- Outlines of the religion and philosophy of Swedenborg (1876) online
- A treatise on maritime law (1859) online
References
[edit]- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Glicksberg, Charles I. (December 1934). "Bryant and the United States Review". The New England Quarterly. 7 (4): 687n1, 689n5.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Parsons, Theophilus and Parsons, Emily Elizabeth, Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons, Little Brown and Company (1880)
- ^ Bryant, William Cullen; Voss, Thomas G. (1975). The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: 1809-1836. Fordham Univ Press. p. 16. ISBN 9780823209910.
Theophilus Parsons harvard 1882 1815.
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