Identifier: menofmarkinconne03osbo (find matches)
Title: Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Osborn, Norris Galpin, b. 1858, ed
Subjects: Connecticut -- Biography
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., W.R. Goodspeed
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and strongcommon sense, secured for him the respect of his fellow townsmen.Mr. Parkers mother was Maria M. Ayer, a woman of strong charac-ter, whose moral influence upon her son was very helpful. A Connecticut hill farm was Mr. Parkers boyhood home, and itafforded a life full of duties and responsibilities. The family meanswere limited and he worked hard to get the thorough education hedesired, for he was studious and literary from a very early age. Mr.Parker prepared for college in the old-fashioned way with Eev. SilasW. Eobbins, pastor of the First Congregational Church in East Had-dam. He graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, in1874, with the degree of B. A., and then attended Yale Law School,receiving his LL.B. in 1876. That same year he began the practiceof law in Hartford, but, although this was the beginning of his lifework, it was not his first work, for he had taught school one termduring his college course and continued teaching for two termswhile studying law. 272
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